STAMMSIEDER

A name given to those Salt Makers who first developed hereditary salt rights. Gerhard Wunder lists 40 families in his excellent book: Die Bürger von Hall. In the list below, each salt maker is a hyperlink to a family tree. You will need to expand the image to properly view it. Due to incredible intermarriage, most grandchildren of the Stammsieder were related. In the Control Book images below, lines emanating from the Stammsieder draw to each of his children. The dates are years profit payments were made by the Loß system