{"id":14889,"date":"2026-01-06T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=14889"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:50:22","slug":"iii-shifting-of-borders-in-the-miners-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/iii-shifting-of-borders-in-the-miners-house\/","title":{"rendered":"examples &#8211; 12 &#8211; shifting of borders and a miners house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>shifting borders and a Miner\u2019s House &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1886, German miner Heinrich M\u00fcller and his wife Liesbeth emigrated from Hesse to the steel town of Rombas on the Moselle. They were strict, but honest and decent people. They built a two-story house in the town of Rombas, a French territory that had been annexed de facto and de jure by the German Empire in 1870\u201371. Under the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the territory became part of France once again. The house was called the Mueller House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10462\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Henri-Mueller-renauld-marie-rose-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Henri-Mueller-renauld-marie-rose-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Henri-Mueller-renauld-marie-rose-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Henri-Mueller-renauld-marie-rose-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Henri-Mueller-renauld-marie-rose-1104x1536.jpg 1104w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Henri-Mueller-renauld-marie-rose.jpg 1309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The now french Henri Mueller in the year 1933 with his french grandchildren<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13041\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fam-Schneider028-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fam-Schneider028-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fam-Schneider028.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Henri Mueller, the elderly miner, with his grandson Renauld in the vegetable garden behind his house shortly before his death in 1938<\/p>\n<p>In the photo on the right: A group portrait in front of the M\u00fcller House\u2014the M\u00fcllers and German recruits who were quartered there in 1915 during World War I. The Verdun front was not far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shifting borders and a Miner\u2019s House &#8211; In 1886, German miner Heinrich M\u00fcller and his wife Liesbeth emigrated from Hesse to the steel town of Rombas on the Moselle. They were strict, but honest and decent people. They built a two-story house in the town of Rombas, a French territory that had been annexed de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-examples"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17840,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions\/17840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}