Alsace Map - Merck Home Villages

Mercks in my direct line of ancestors, from Johann to Engelhardt, Joseph, Engelhardus, and Engelhard, lived in the villages of Schoenenbourg and Beinheim in Alsace during the 1700s. It was Engelhard who emigrated in about 1809 with many others of the area to settle in the Kutschurgan villages of South Russia (now Ukraine). Others in the Merck family remained in France at that time. This map shows the Rhine River separating Alsace (France) from Germany with Beinheim near the center of the map close to the river and just West of the German city of Rastatt. Schoenenbourg is approximately 15 km Northwest in the upper left corner of the map. The German resort city of Baden Baden is in the lower right corner.