Rail and
Road in Linking Emsland with Bremen in 1882
Railroad lines
existing in 1882 are shown in red.
Most emigrants, however, departed from their homes in Emsland before that date. The
portion of the rail system available to them, if any at all, would have depended on when
they departed.
The rail system on this map is based on the larger (241K), more
detailed FEEFHS map German Empire - West, Hanover, Prussia found on their
website: http://feefhs.org/maps/gerw/gw-hanov.html.
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Overland route
used in 1852 is shown in blue.
This route by road was used by letter carrier Karl Sasse in 1852. He made frequent trips
to and from America and used what presumably would have been the most direct route
available at that time. It took Sasse a little under 24 hours to make the journey from
Bremen to Herzlake in Emsland. Emigrant families using the same route in the opposite
direction, slowed down by the transport of luggage and the needs of their children, would
have required more time.
Information about Karl Sasse's journey was found in Walter Tenfelde's
book Auswanderungen und Awusanderer aus dem ehemaligen Kreise Lingen nach America,
p. 36, (Lingen, 1998.)
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