Family: Christian Binkelmann / Katharina Barbara Erlenmaier (F5016)

• Father | Male Christian Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	5 Jul 1754	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	6 Nov 1802	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried
  Married	7 Jul 1778  [1]	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany  [1]
  Father	Johann Jakob Binkelmann, I | F41 Group Sheet
  Mother	Rosina Hofer | F41 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Katharina Barbara Erlenmaier

  
  

  Born	4 Mar 1757	W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	21 Apr 1803	Schorndorf, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Eva Dorothea Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	8 Mar 1787	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	11 Jul 1795	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Male Jacob Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	22 Oct 1788	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Male Johann Friederich Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	4 Jan 1790	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	18 Feb 1814	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Christian Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	23 Sep 1791	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	3 Jan 1793	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried

  
  

  Child 5 | Male Christian Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	22 Oct 1793	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	8 Jun 1821	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried

  
  

  Child 6 | Female Catharina Dorothea Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	29 Aug 1796	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 7 | Female Rosina Binkelmann

  
  

  Born	15 Oct 1797	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	22 Oct 1797	Pl?derhausen, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: BonnieMargaret Jacobs, on page 63 of her 1981 manuscript, cites DEKANAT SCHORNDORF, BAND I, BLATT 24a for the parish records of the Christianus Binkelmann and Barbara Erlenmayer family. BonnieMargaret Jacobs notes that the kirchlichen Familienregister Band 1 details the tragic deaths of Christian and Barbara "Christianus Binkelmann died as a result of several hits with a huge axe, delivered by his wife. The record notes that Barbara, murderer of her husband, was beheaded in Schorndorf some four months later. Other notes in the parish records reveal that this rash deed happened at midday, while Christianus slept in bed in drunkenness. Since the civil records of Pl?derhausen have not been filed and indexed, we have no idea what drove Barbara to that madness. Of course, we all know that Christianus had no business being abed, drunk, at midday. Certainly not in Germany at that time. We can only develop our own fantasies of their homelife that led to such a brutal end---for both of them." From the Burgermeisteramnt Schorndorf, BonnieMargaret noted, we receive the following official account of the excecution at the castle in Schorndorf: 'On 21 April, 1803, was Katharina Binkelman of Pl?derhausen, born Erlenmaier, approximately 46 years old, who killed her husband Christian Binkelmann, a weaver of that place, with a huge axe--with a large sword beheaded, her head placed on a sharp post, her headless body delivered to the clinic at Tubigen.' Without more information is is impossible to know if justice was done--in either case." (p. 60) At the time of their parents deaths, their four surviving children ranged in age from 7 to 15. The eldest son was listed as "vermisst" (vanished, disappeared) on parish records. The second and third son both died before the were age 30. Only daughter Catharina married and remained in the area. Since the population was ever growing and the Burghers anxious to limit the growth within trades, the sons of both Christianus and his elder brother Johann Jacob were apparently excluded from training. The community demanded a stable, conformist population where there would be no problems maintaining the status quo. Ever diligent to identify and eradicated tendencies to the contrary, they had ample reason to deny Burgher status to the upcoming generation of Binkelmann men in Pl?derhausen . (p. 62).

  
  

• Sources

  [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 53, "Christianus married at 24. His bride was Catharina Barbara Erlenmayer." p. 92 (Reliability: 3).