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Families from Burgenland

This picture is part of a mural which is in the Rawlins County  Museum at Atwood, Kansas.  It was done by Burgenland descendant, the late Rudolph Wendelin and depicts the pioneer spirit, strength and determination of our Burgenland immigrants. 

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Thousands of people migrated to the United States from what is now Burgenland Province in Austria, Western Hungary and the southern part of the Slovak Republic. This page is dedicated to those that settled, basically, in Nebraska and Kansas.  The migration started in the early 1870's and lasted through the early part of the 1900's.  A company called, "The Lincoln Land Company", which was part of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, forerunner to the CB&Q Railroad,  was instrumental, through its agents, in bringing the main bulk of the people to Lancaster and Saline Counties in Nebraska and Rawlins and Decatur Counties in Kansas.  Many of our immigrant ancestors worked building the Burlington Railroad west to Denver.  These people brought with them their strong Lutheran and Catholic faiths which they cling to yet today.  Although German was spoken in their households for some 50 odd years, they were quick to become Americans.  Burgenlanders and their descendants have had a major influence in their communities and have served our country with distinction.  

Burgenland descendant Eldon George Portschi, killed in action, Korea, 1951


Evangelical Church, Rajka (Ragendorf), Hungary by Charlotte Specht-Schara of Munich, Germany, a Rumpeltes descendant 


Schrammel appointed Burgermeister of Gols

On 10 January 2007, Johann (Hans) Schrammel was appointed Burgermeister of Gols.  He replaced the retiring Matthias Achs.  All of the relatives in the United States wish Matthias a long, healthy and happy retirement and the very best to Hans in his new duties. 

(Article courtesy Margarethe Heinrich)


The information on this site is the on going result of some 33 years of research into, first the Portsche family, then expanded 15 years ago to include other family lines from Burgenland.  The "Descendants of Johann (Hanns) Portschy" site is a cross reference to this site and will assist in showing the complex blood line ties between these peoples.  There has been no "guess work" involved in this research.  All information is from official church records, family histories and other individuals research.  There are bound to be mistakes, therefore, any errors found should be submitted to the researcher, as well as information or documents that you would like to have included in the data base.  At this time, individual or family pictures have been omitted.  Once all of the information is entered into the server, and the amount of space is ascertained, perhaps the pictures can be included. 

The East Coast Burgenlander's have an outstanding web site in which they have honored we Kansas-Nebraska folks by including a lot of our information.  You may click here to go to their site. 

 Marktgemeinde Gols is the web site of Gols, Austria.  They have been kind enough to include a link to our pages.  Click on any of the pictures, then go to Information, then Links and scroll down to " Stammbaum einer Golser Familie in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika:" Our thanks go to Christian Fröhlich for making this possible.

Check out the web site of the "Burgenland Bunch".   This organization consists of over 700 members and is dedicated to research of peoples from Burgenland and surrounding areas.  

 Last Updated: Friday, February 08, 2008

Achs Allacher Beck Demmer
Ecker Fischgradl Fleischacker Geisslinger/Geistlinger
Gleichteil Gmahl Goltl Goschl/Goeschel
Graafl/Grafel Györik Hackstock Heinrich
Herzog Krutzler Kundinger Köpplinger
Lehner Leitner Limbeck, Georg Limbeck, Michael
Moser Nittnaus Pollreis Preisinger
Rumpeltes Schmelzer Schramel/Schrammel Segner
Steuer Wendelin, Matthias Wendelin, Paul Wendelin, Johann

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Wurm, Johann Wurm, Lorenz Wurm, Matthias

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© 2008, Gary L. Portsche, Olathe, Kansas, USA