Announcing the 3rd International Reunion
for Bollschweiler Family Members
April 28th - May 1st, 2006, in Weil am Rhein, Germany

Dear Bollschweiler Family Members,

     As announced in Salt Lake City in 2002, we would very much like to see you at our 3rd international family reunion of all Bollschweiler relatives. We'll meet in the same place as in 2000:

Atlas-Hotel Weil
Alte Strasse 58, D-79576 Weil am Rhein
Tel. 0(049) 7621 7070, Fax 0(049) 7621 707650
info@atlas-hotel.de - www.atlas-hotel.de

     The Meeting begins Friday evening, April 28th, 2006 and concludes Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006.

     Basel, Switzerland is the nearest airport and is only 5 miles away from Weil am Rhein. (Directions: Railway station Badischer Bahnhof Basel 3 miles, Autobahn/expressway exit Weil/Hueningen only 200 yards. The hotel includes free parking.).

     The invitation aims at all relatives - by blood or marriage - in the broadest sense, their name may be Bollschweiler or not. We would be very glad to see many young people and children too.

Reunion Highlights are:  
  - A visit to the 750 years old ruins of the Castle of the Nobles of Roetteln (who ruled over the Bollschweiler families).
(Internet: www.burgenwelt.de/haagen/ge.htm)
  - A visit to the Ecomusee in Alsace (showing how the ancient people lived and worked)
(Internet: www.ecomusee-alsace.com)
  - A tour of the places your ancestors lived and worked (including an ancient mill and a 300 years old farm house, owned by Bollschweiler descendants)

 

Expenses:

- Standard room class, per-person in a double room (includes 3 dinners + 3x bed + breakfast + lunch) totals to about $290.00 USD (children less).

- Executive Room class is an additional $5 USD per person, per night.  

- Superior room class is an additional $16 USD per room, per night.

- Single room is an additional $45 USD for 3 nights.

(Executive an additional $9, Superior $55, per night)

- Children under 12 years old are free when staying in parents room. Meals will be around $13 USD.

- Ages 12 and up are full price.

Additional expenses:

About $135 per person for lunch, afternoon tea, museum and castle admission, and bus travel. Drinks will also incur an additional charge.

Please join your relatives living in the US, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, France, England and Peru.

Please send us the registration sheet (snail mail or e-mail or fax) or register online by:

October 15th, 2005

By replying by this date we can order the rooms, etc.

     Please contact us too if you are unable to attend the meeting. And please encourage all your Bollschweiler relatives to attend the family reunion (who knows whether we'll have another one...).

     We are trying to create new family charts with pictures, so please send us new or old pictures of all the members of your family and relatives (Large head shots, so they can be scanned in one after the other).

     Also please send information about your family, if it has grown or decreased within the last six years, etc.  Please send all the data we need for the Ahnentafel (especially the news that we love most, marriages and births!).

In the meantime
many regards
have a good time and
Auf Wiedersehen
in the Markgraeflerland/Black Forest

Brigitte and Hanno
(Meeting Hosts)