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- Dietrich Koger, son of Claus and Dorothy Jager Koger, moved from Weil am Rhine to Auggen in 1629, and married Maria Leininger on August 24 of that year. Maria's father, Hans Leininger, had served as Vogt, of Auggen from 1624 to 1629. Dietrich and Maria had 6 children. Claus, named after his grandfather, was their third child, and was born in 1637. Maria, according to the records, died "in childbed", on April 30, 1643, and Dietrich married again, to Anna Hagin, daughter of the Vogt of Tannenkirch, George Hagin. According to the new church book of the Parish Auggen, their "wedding dinner was held in Basel, because there was not enough safety in the country".
Dietrich Koger became Vogt of Auggen in 1629, and served for many years. The book "Der Weinort Auggen" (The Winevillage Auggen) contains numerous references to Dietrich Koger, which are shown below, by the page number on which the statements are found.
54. A continual supply of livestock could only be requisitioned gradually. Better established farmers, like Lenininger, Koger, Kuttler, and Klugermann, appeared to have possessed, with the aid of relatives in nearby Switzerland, supplies for emergency times where they could keep livestock besides corn, wine, and the like.
54. The new magistrate in 1629 was the former Sergeant-at-arms, Dietrich Koger, a married son of a magistrate from Weil. He was an energetic man who began with an experienced hand to organize the greatly disrupted village affairs.
57. The driving forces in rebuilding the village were the Magistrate Dietrich Koger and the Pastor Jeremias Gmelin. Dietrich Koger had grown up as the son of the Magistrate in Weil, in the hard school of the times.
66. One episode should be mentioned which took place in our village in 1798 and must be seen as a symptom of that politically restless time: in the village some men were supposed to be taken to prison in Lorrach for poaching. Emissaries of the French revolutionary government used this to incite the residents against their Margrave who was at the time staying in Badenweiler. In the night before the telling of the poachers, the concerned persons and the dissatisfied militant persons of the place, with the Magistrate Dietrich Koger in the lead, assembled before the village hall, in order to go to Badenweiler with weapons in their hands,
as they said, to speak with the Margrave.
68. We learn on thing, that on September 15th of that year, a high official came unannounced to Auggen and removed the Magistrate Koger, the Sergeant-at-arms Kittler, and the entire village Court from their offices, and replaced them with new officials.
74. While Neff was spouting a revolutionary tirade, Paul Moriz took Jacob Vohl's weapon from the wall with the intention of shooting Neff. Vohl's wife, who was a Koger before she married Vohl, could not restrain herself from saying some strong words so that Moriz threatened to shoot her. Had Dr. Elsasser not intervened, the results might have been disastrous.
104. Only from the mid-Seventeenth Century did the Magistrate affix a seal with his very own crest. Dietrich Koger was the first to do so. His seal we see in his epitaph on the west Cemetery Wall which shows the beginning of our village coat of arms: plough and vineknife.
112. The keeping of animals in alternating stalls was disadvantageous for animal maintenance; from a report by Magistrate Koger it was prevalent that young bulls had to be slaughtered because of disease, quite frequently.
26. Around 1650, the Auggener Vogt Dietrich Koger had on lease with Gutaner Meierhof some real estate. Since he used the Gutnauer field and the woodlands of the upper and lower part of the timber slide, Neuenburg was afraid that Koger could absorb this real estate for Auggen, so sought legal action to prevent Koger's control. Finally, when the Auggen shepherds again grazed their animals in the Rhine Valley, Neuenburg returned to his former Austrian central government in Ensisheim. Auggen asserted that the Margrave government likewise fitted in. Neuenburg depended on his royal privilege. The matter was brought to the attention of the Royal Notary, Dietschin, where it was thoroughly discussed. However, they were unable to come to any agreement.
154. #30 Braurtsmatten: For a long time it was government property and in the 17th Century it was managed as a holding by Magistrate Koger. A part of this property is found today under the designation "Roggenbacher Schlag" in the possession of the firm Krafft.
159. Koger emigrated from Weil in 1629. (Dietrich)
196. In a large village fire in October 1727 the "Renkenhof" was a victim of the flames. It was not rebuilt. The feudal tenants at that time, the Magistrate Joss Muser and Martin Koger (a son of Dietrich Koger) used the location for a succession of house gardens, but soon were sold.
2201. When the Meierhof was destroyed in 1675, the property held in fee went to the Auggener families; Koger, Kuttler, Lenininger, and Muser. In the last centuries before the secularization were given to the St. Blasisch Diocese of Krozingen yearly a total of 15 measures (150 liters) of rye, 6 measures of oats, and 4 measures of barley. After the
Secularization the sale of good of 242 Jucharten resulted through Christian Lenininger and Jos and Johann Kroger between 1825 and 1843.
244. Lowen the "Lion" was named in 1641. The Innkeeper of the Lowen was the butcher Joss Kuttler, a grandson of the important Magistrate Kuttler. The business, butcher shop, and inn were run by Kuttler as predecessor of the present Dreher-Hoflin House. The concession to the above was bestowed for the last time in 1701. When Kuttler died in 1678, his son Joss
inherited the business with the Inn. Kuttler's wife was Elizabeth Kurz. After Joss Kuttler's death she married in 1713 the butcher Martin Koger, a son of the Magistrate Dietrich Koger. Their business was severely damaged by a fire in 1727, but was soon rebuilt. In 1762 the property went to Martin Koger's son who was likewise a butcher. Because in the meantime several Inns appeared in the village, their Inn (Koger's) went out of business. Then Koger ran only a butcher's shop.
253. Among the butchers, we meet three generations of Kogers. One of them had learned the profession and the French language in Lausanne, which was advantageous in the frequent "visits" of the French troops.
254. In 1710 Jos Koger was named Cooper.
257. A smith, Martin Koger, from 1802 carried on his business in the present Reinhard Zollinschen house behind the "Rebstock" (vine).
According to the Auggen Church-book, "Dietrich Koger, the old Magistrate of Auggen, 80 years and nine months old, pretty weak but still getting around on his own, being of sound mind, able to get out of bed on his own, died peacefully on the morning of November 27, 1688. Recorded down on Christmas by the Pastor, in his Ministry for 37 years on that day.
Jerimia"
A Memorial Epitaph on the wall in the cemetery at Auggen reads as follows:
HERE LIES BURIED THE HONORABLE MR. DIETRICH KOGER RESPECTED MAGISTRATE OF AUGGEN HAD 6 CHILDREN IN HIS FIRST MARRIAGE WITH MISS MARIA LEININGERIN AND IN THE OTHER MARRIAGE WITH MRS ANNA HAGIN, 12 CHILDREN ALSO HE LIVED TO SEE 55 GRANDCHILDREN AND 12 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
ON THE 27TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1688 AT THE AGE 80 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS
IN CHRIST GENTLY BLESSED HE PASSED AWAY TO GOD.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
1608 - 1688 (80 years)