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Three decades later, already 700 families, i.e., circa 3500 people, lived
in the Neustadt Hanau. The thirty-year war (1618-1648), the sieges, and
the plague worsened the economic situation of the inhabitants. Only years
later did their circumstances improve again. Among them there is now also
Heinrich d e B o o r (also Dubor). He is trained as a fuller (`Walkmüller'),
a trade of use in the production of cloth. In those days, one took for this
so-called `Walkerde', a kind of clay, today replaced by other means and
only used to remove fats and oils. The rather involved process was then
called `fulling' (`Walken'), and involved compression, by pushing or punching,
of the cloth infused with this gray-brown clay.
Heinrich, like many of these refugees, is member of the reformed church,
the Calvinist faith. In Hanau, he meets others who, like him, believe that
one can already see here on earth, by one's success or failure (including
that in the economic sphere) whether one is headed for paradise or hell.
Added to this is a particular interpretation of the Eucharist, also strong
church discipline and a simple church service, guided by preachers, the
elders, deacons, and teachers.
We know of no marriage, but a son occurs in the official record. Heinrich
is mentioned by name in the marriage book of the Church of St. Mary, on
12.02.1700 and called there `Heinrich Dubor, an already dead fuller here
in town'; the occasion is the marriage of his son Peter Dubor, but there
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