The Neunzehnhöltzer Family of Freinsheim

Neunzehnhöltzer - interesting name, eh? Neunzehn means 19, literally nine-ten. Höltzer usually refers to someone who lives or works in the woods. (Modern German Holz means wood in the sense of both lumber and a forest.) So Neunzehnhöltzer - someone who lives or works in 19 different woods? Someone who lives or works in woods number 19? Or - and I think this might be the most likely explanation - someone who comes from Neunzehnhöltz, a place named after its 19 woods.

Elisabetha and Velten or Valentin Neunzehnhöltzer

I found birth and/or marriage records in Freinsheim for six people whose father was Velten or Valentin Neunzehnhöltzer. His wife's name seems to have been Elisabetha:

• Anna Utilia born no later than 1702 and possibly before 1698 (the earliest Freinsheim birth records). She married Henrich Feldt in Freinsheim on 09 Jan 1720;
• Johann Arendt or Arnold christened 08 Mar 1699;
• Johann Jakob born 19 Feb 1701, christened 23 Feb 1701;
• Elisabetha christened 04 Feb 1703. She may be the Elisabetha Neunzehnhöltzer who married Benedict Klein 30 Jul 1726 in a Catholic ceremony in Dackenheim, 3 km NW of Freinsheim. The couple had two children, Johann Jakob born 17 Feb 1726 and Anna Maria born 17 May 1728;
• Johann Valentin christened 23 Jan 1707; and
• Susanna christened 27 Nov 1709. She married Moritz Ehrhardt, son of Gabriel Ehrhardt, in Freinsheim on 27 Jan 1728, but appears to have been deceased by September 1729.

Anna Susanna Becker and Johann Arnold Neunzehnhöltzer

On 29 Jun 1719 Johann Arendt or Arnold Neunzehnhöltzer married Anna Susanna Becker, the daughter of Nicol Becker, in Freinsheim. (Arendt is a form of Arnold.) They had three daughters, all christened in Freinsheim:

• Johanna Juliana christened 22 Sep 1720;
• Anna Christina christened 19 Apr 1722; and
• Elisabetha christened 21 May 1724.

Anna Christina married Johann Jacob Sohn, the son of Christoph Sohn, in Freinsheim on 13 Sep 1740.

Elisabetha married Johann Georg Weilbrenner, named after his own father, in Freinsheim on 25 Apr 1742.

Maria Margaretha and Johann Arnold Neunzehnhöltzer

Then between 1727 and 1735 another couple, Arnold and Maria Margaretha Neunzehnhöltzer, had five more children. My best guess is that this is Arnold's second marriage. I can't find a marriage record and don't know Maria Margaretha's last name:

• Johann Henrich born 10 Aug 1727, christened 14 Aug 1727;
• Johann Jacob born 20 Jul 1729, christened 24 Jul 1729;
• Johanna born 27 Oct 1731, christened 04 Nov 1731;
• Maria Elisabetha born 06 Nov 1733, christened 08 Nov 1733; and
• Maria Catharina born 28 Mar 1735, christened the same day.

Johanna married Johann Jost Engel, son of Johann Philipp Engel, in Freinsheim on 07 Apr 1750.

Maria Margaretha Neunzehnhöltzer

On 10 Jan 1736, Maria Margaretha "Neunzehn Holtzer" married Johannes Stocke in Freinsheim. Presumably Maria Margaretha was born between 1686 and 1718, perhaps 1720 at the very latest. The marriage record doesn't give her parents' names.

I don't have any further information on the Neunzehnhöltzers, not only in Freinsheim but anywhere in Germany. The only family I could find with a similar name was the Neutzenhöltzer family in Lampertheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, 25 km ENE and on the other side of the Rhine. Is one name a variant of the other?