One more city named Weidenbach! This Weidenbach is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.
I can’t find much about this city online. It’s not as visible as the other two Weidenbachs. If anybody can help, please drop me a line.
This sculpture, “Nana I Ke Kumu” (Look to the Source), was completed in 1995 by Michael Weidenbach of Hawaii (the *other* Michael…the one with the BFA, MFA from University of Hawaii) and was purchased by the City of Honolulu in 1999 for the grounds of the Mission Memorial Auditorium.
Michael is also the Curator of the Battleship Missouri Memorial, which boasts 400,000 visitors annually, and he recently oversaw a refit and preservation of the historic vessel.
Jan Weidenbach has 12 children and 2 grandchildren (a Weidenbach record?) She says faith and having a sense of humor is paramount to raising a family, “Because if you don’t, the stress may do you in.”
Almost true. Three years ago she thought she was suffering from food poisoning, but doctors confirmed that she had suffered two heart attacks. Now she says “I pick my battles and give the rest to someone else.” That’s when having 12 kids around is handy…delegating tasks *should be* easier with that much help.
Jan just turned 50 on Mother’s Day 2010. Happy Birthday, Jan! Say “Hi” to Ammelia, Janna, Nickolas, Amber, Alana, Antonia, Luke, Ammanda, David, Jacob, Joshua, Matheu, Jon Paul, & Craig!
Back in 2007, Wade Weidenbach and his business partner, Scotty Bowman, partners in the Dirty Deeds fishing team, caught a 609-pound, 11-foot-long Mako shark.
“We were goofing off, you know, catching redfish. When he swam by he went past the boat and turned around, came back to the boat. Then I walked from the helm station and stood up on the bow and looked over and realized what he was. His eyes rolled up and looked at me, and I looked at him and I said, ‘MAKO’! We lost sight of him, found him again, and threw a chunk of bait at him – one of the redfish we had caught – and he scarfed it up. It was game on after that”, Bowman said.
According to Weidenbach, “We got the life jackets out and crossed our fingers. Mako are real bad about jumping in the boat – you’ve got to be very careful with them.”
Game on, indeed.
They gaffed the shark when he came to the surface. Four shots from a shotgun (under the surface) only succeeded in splintering the barrel of the gun, but didn’t stop the shark. After 3 1/2 hours of fighting, they headed home with a shark over half as long as their 17′ Cape Horn craft.
What do you do with a 9-foot shark once you catch it? Wade and Scotty cut it up and ate it.
Cap’n Wade now runs Down Stream Fishing Charters and does, in fact, now own a bigger boat.
Live in South Dakota? Need concrete? You’re in luck!
Weidenbach Concrete Works (fomrerly Weidenbach Construction) is one of the few “South Dakota Century Businesses” …SD businesses that have been in the same business, owned by the same family, and serving the same town for over 100 years. In fact, they’ve been in business since 1886.
They company is now on its 5th generation of Weidenbachs, and recently expanded to a new location with a new production facility. Here’s a pic:
After being made aware in an Email that there were several towns named “Weidenbach” in Germany, a quick Google search turned up Weidenbach, Vulkaneifel (map), a town whose history dates back to before the year 1016.
Weidenbach is a municipality in the district of Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.
Side note: The Weidenbach Fire Brigade was created in 1906 and has their own website. Here’s a video of them in action…okay, just training, but the music is stirring.
This landscape was sent in by Ron Colvin. His wife’s grandmother’s maiden name was Adelheid Weidenbach, and this was passed down through the family. It is signed, “K. Weidenbach ~ 1805“ I thought it might be one of Karl Augustus Weidenbach’s works, but the years don’t match up. (larger version)
Keith Wallace observes, “the image is that of a walled German town on a large river, in a sheep farming area with sailing ship access to the sea. Northern Germany?” but he cannot link the painter with the family in his research.
Friedrich August Weidenbach, Painter and Drawing Master of Naumburg was the patriarch of a famous family of Weidenbach painters in Naumburg in the 1800s. Several descendants emigrated to the United States and Australia in the mid-19th century. Keith & Pat Wallace, of Brisbane, Australia compiled that data and posted the website while researching Pat’s family history, documenting not only the family’s geneaology, but also their works and the places where they lived.
Drawing by Friedrich, 1822
Chief Warrant Officer Edward Joseph Weidenbach of Nampa, ID was a helicopter pilot in the 1st CAV in Vietnam. He was there just over two months and died on May 5, 1967 in Binh Dinh Province. He was 42 years old. (Ironically and unintentionally, I got around to posting this on May 5 2010…exactly 43 years later.)
Weidenbach Hall, renovated and named after John Peter (Jack) Weidenbach in 1994, is the home of the University of Michigan’s Athletic Administration. John joined the Athletic Department in 1988 as senior associate director of athletics, became interim director in 1990 and director in 1991. His Michigan teams won 18 Big Ten championships.
Cool Link: View Weidenbach Hall!
(Follow the link, click “Street View” under the pic in the balloon. Up pops a panoramic view of the intersection! Look to the southwest, and you’ll see Weidenbach Hall!
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