d'Horrer family FrançaisEnglishПо-русски

About · Map

Places of the family

From Alsace to Siberia: the places where the family lived, served and emigrated. The numbers refer to the list; an underlined name leads to the page that tells about it.

Common historyRussian branchFrench branchItalian branchapproximate position

9Turin10Naples11Cava dei Tirreni12Brignat13Sapigneul14Polotsk15Saint Petersburg16Moscow17Kyiv18Lichtsiany19Tula24Krasnodar25Pshada26Ashgabat27Abu Ghosh
Dotted lines are today's borders. The two frames refer to the detail maps below.
1Strasbourg2Colmar3Obernai4Lauterbourg5Waldenbuch6Fribourg7Bulle8Lausanne
Alsace and Switzerland
20Kharkov21Demyakovka22Razumnoye23Kursk
Around Kharkov and Kursk

Alsace, Switzerland, Italy, France

  1. 1StrasbourgCradle of the family in the 18th century; house at 10 rue des Pucelles.
  2. 2ColmarAndré Horrer, lawyer at the Sovereign Council of Alsace; marriage of 1773 (the branch that did not emigrate).
  3. 3ObernaiPhilippe-Xavier, called upon to replace the mayor in April 1792.
  4. 4LauterbourgParish registers concerning the d'Horrer family (DOC 2).
  5. 5WaldenbuchHorrers are recorded there; the link with our family is not proven.
  6. 6FribourgBaptism of Émilie d'Horrer (1824, DOC 15).
  7. 7BulleDeath of Constantin d'Horrer.
  8. 8LausanneBirth of Vladimir d'Horrer (1822).
  9. 9TurinDeath of little Vladimir (1834); Arsène's war college; Sophie Khvostoff dies there in 1882.
  10. 10NaplesMarriage of Arsène d'Horrer and Marie Guilhomet (1881, DOC 19.2).
  11. 11Cava dei TirreniDeath of Joseph-François-Xavier d'Horrer.
  12. 12Château de Brignat (Domérat)Home of the French branch, near Montluçon.
  13. 13Sapigneul (Marne) approximate positionCaptain Léon d'Horrer is mortally wounded there (1916).

Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and beyond

  1. 20Kharkov (Kharkiv)Birth of Vladimir (1862), death of his father Philippe; Serge studies there.
  2. 21Demyakovka, near Okhtyrka approximate positionEstate brought as a dowry by Yekaterina; lost at cards in 1889.
  3. 22Razumnoye, near BelgorodDorogobuzhinoska estate (about 14 km²), in the village of Razumnoye, 7 km from Belgorod: property of Vladimir d'Horrer, buried in the family crypt (1909).
  4. 23KurskVladimir, deputy for the province in the Third Duma (1907).
  5. 14PolotskJesuit college where Georges-Joseph-Ulrich Horrer dies (1812).
  6. 15Saint PetersburgConfirmation of Marie-Joseph's marriage (1811), marriage of Joseph-François-Xavier (1840).
  7. 16MoscowThe family settles there in 1798; the fire of 1812.
  8. 17KyivMarriage of Marie-Joseph and Emilie-Wilhelmine de Rachette (1806).
  9. 18Lichtsiany, near Rossieny (Raseiniai) approximate positionEstate of Georges and Olga d'Horrer, where their four children were born (1905–1913). The exact place is still to be identified.
  10. 19TulaThe « Tula branch ».
  11. 24KrasnodarThe « Krasnodar branch ».
  12. 25PshadaFamily house near the Black Sea; the last years of Alexei Georgievich.
  13. 26AshgabatGeorges d'Horrer in Transcaspia; the Revolution of 1917.
  14. 27Abu Ghosh (Israel)Plaque in memory of the Russian branch, placed by Sophie d'Horrer (DOC 33).
  15. 28Gorno-Altaysk (Altai)Exile of the family of Georges and Olga from 1928.
  16. 29Alma-Ata (Almaty)Katia and Tatiana take refuge there; Olga Danilovna lives there in 1958.
  17. 30KrasnoyarskThe family is still well represented there today.
  18. 31San Carlos and Cayastá (Argentina)Emigration of Marie-Sophie-Henriette and the Tessières.

Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). The places without a number on the map (Altai, Alma-Ata, Krasnoyarsk, Argentina) are too far away to appear on it.