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The Town Hall of Hefersweiler

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mocked by some people, if she had appeared at the wedding in<br />

<strong>Hefersweiler</strong> 11 !<br />

11 ) As a 25-year old Charlotta Bayer had already had 1780 illegitimate child. And that at a<br />

time before revolutionary era, was a serious misdemeanour. Her second illegitimate child<br />

came when she was 34 years’ old. <strong>The</strong> father was (as the minister Vollmar wrote) the<br />

“stupid, lascivious very old man Johann Peter Steinhauer, the proud master father <strong>of</strong> many<br />

people in <strong>Hefersweiler</strong> and Berzweiler. Even if a pot would call Charlotta Bayer the black<br />

kettle, Charlotta must nevertheless from today's more objective viewpoint , be judged a<br />

success in bringing up, largely alone, her children Johann Nickel and Maria Elisabetha in<br />

that arduous time. One must conclude that she was a great person, who took life what life<br />

handed out while receiving nothing from her relationship to the Steinhauers.

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