Assmayr
Besteandsmayr
Bichl
Blassnig
Brugger
Eder
Eggermayr
Erlacher
Erlspacher
Feldner
Gasser
Gatteheim
Graber
Grandegger
Grosslercher
Gruebner
Grün
Jaggler
Haidacher
Handelsmann
Hintergschwendter
Hirber
Hofer
Holzer
Hopfgartner
Hürber
Jaggler
Jesacher
Käufer
Kleinlercher
Köfler
Kröll
Kuchlmayr
In 1683, in the Defferegger Valley, a peddler of
Catholic religious tokens complained that he had been
abused by Protestant farmers. Consequently, Max
Gandolph banished the Defferegger Protestants. Before
1685, approximately 3,000 inhabitants lived in the
valley. The Defereggers expelled on November 7, 1684
amounted to 621 adults and 289 older children.
Popular destinations for the Deferegger Protestants
were Stuttgart, Urach, Göppingen, Herrenberg and
Ulm. To prevent parental kidnapping, which some
Defereggers succeeded at, there were suggestions that
the stolen children be housed together and guarded
with the military, but since this measure was not
practical, officers of the court were sent into the valley
to keep watch, and in the year 1692, farmhands were
offered a premium of twelve Reichstalern for each
"kidnapper" caught with a child. By 1720, a third the
inhabitants had been lost, and Pc.Veit lost over half of
its citizens.
Lantaler
Lazacher
Leonharter
Lottersperger
Lukasser
Marschaller
Matrei
Mayrhofer
Mellizer/Mallizer
Milburger
Monizer
Moser
Neuhauser
Niederegger
Niederwanger
Oberegger
Oberswalder
Obetshofer
Ortner
Oxner
Ladstetter
Leonharter
Lercher
Pälhueber
Passler
Pergler
Pichle
Plasischger
Plasner
Plassnig
Pröser
Prugger
Prunner
Prünstler
Putzhueber
Rainer
Ranacher
Ranzer
Rauter
Ratschitsch
Rauter
Rotgärber
Sauter
Schmidsrauter
Schneider
Schwaig
Selmpacher
Stainer
Stemberger
Stessl
Steiner
Steinkaserer
Stopp
Tausch
Tegischer
Troyer
Treuer
Unterbergler
Unteregger
Untergassmayr
Unterlercher
Urbaner
Veiter
Veldner
Zathammer
The Defferegger Expulsion
Some Defferegger Exiles' Names
Breitinger
Fledner
Gasser
Jaggler
Kell
Prugger
Schmidtsrauter
Hopfgartner
Krammetsvogel
Mellizer
Niederwalder
Ortner
Stemberger
Some who went to Nürnberg:
and Gunzenhausen:
They were not allowed to take
any of their children under the
age of 15. The children were
held back so as to be educated
as Catholics. 227 of these young
children were retained and
raffled off to Catholic farmers.
Some of the exiles tried to hide
their babies and tiny children in
baskets and under blankets, but
they were usually stopped at the
borders and searched.