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The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [1] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany, and the newly settled area north of the canal as "Over the Rhine". [2] [3]
It is one of five German Townships statewide. [5]Formed while still part of Mercer County, the township originally included Jackson Township until separation in 1858. [6] One house in the township, the Julius Boesel House just north of New Bremen, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
[130] [131] A 2016 study on immigrants in Ohio concluded that immigrants make up 6.7% of all entrepreneurs in Ohio although they are just 4.2% of Ohio's population, and that these immigrant-owned businesses generated almost $532 million in 2014. The study also showed that "immigrants in Ohio earned $15.6 billion in 2014 and contributed $4.4 ...
[27] The city passed an ordinance to change all German street names in the city. [26] In Over-the-Rhine, Bremen Street was changed to Republic and Hanover became Yukon Street. [ 28 ] As happened in some other areas of the country with numerous ethnic Germans, the state closed German-language schools, dismissed teachers of German, and banned ...
While English breweries were found originally in the city, as German immigrants moved in, their brewing techniques were universally embraced and became the dominant methods for producing beer. [35] Louis Hoster, an immigrant from Rheinpfalz, Germany, [40] is notably credited for this transformation when he opened the City Brewery in the 1830s ...
This museum serves as the focal point in presenting the contributions of the many German immigrants and their descendants, in the Ohio River Valley and America. [2] The museum focuses especially on representing the long history of German-Americans in the Greater Cincinnati area, which became, and remains one of the major German-American centers ...
Archaeologists discovered it on the skeleton of a man buried in a cemetery in the Roman city of Nida, one of the largest and most important sites in the central German state of Hesse.
Germantown is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,796 at the 2020 census . A part of the Dayton metropolitan area , Germantown was founded by German Americans from Pennsylvania and was once home to a cigar industry.