I was wondering if you guys could tell me of some old, historically German neighborhoods in any towns across the state.  Or of any towns that were mostly settled by Germans.

 

Thanks

I think Coshocton, Roscoe Village, Zoar, Cadiz, Gnadenhutten, Erichisville (spelling?)...of course German Village, all have some German roots...

I think even Ohio City has (predominantly) German roots

Cincinnati is arguably the German capital of America.  Go and see Over-the-Rhine with its left over German signs and inscriptions.  The architecture is all German influenced and many of the streets used to have very German names that were changed during the WWII hysteria.  But even outside of OTR, there are tons of German heavy neighborhoods throughout Cincinnati.

 

Also see German Village in Cbus - probably the best neighborhood in Ohio at this moment, and German to the core.

Germantown was settled by Germans from Pennsylvania.

 

The "Land of the Cross Tipped Churches", say the area south of Grand Lake, between Minster and New Bremen and Fort Loramie westerward to US 125 and the Indiana line had a big rural German settlement, mostly Catholic.  Their churches are monumental, features in the landscape.  There is a little one-room museum in the Maria Stein convent that has a little history of the area. The Shrine of the Holy Relics would be worth that side trip in and of itself.  Minster and New Bremen were German settlements.

 

 

The German sections of Dayton that survived urban renewal are Oregon, St Annes Hill, and Twin Towers...I think the Germans settled parts of South Park and  Old North Dayton, too.  The Catholic churches on Bainbrige and  Xenia Avenue were originally German congregations spinning off from Emmanual, the mother parish of Catholic Dayton.

 

 

How about my hometown... Delphos.  It was founded by two brothers from the city of Verl, Germany.  Still a predominately German town with basically everyone I grew up with having a German heritage.

Also see Van Wert, Kalida, and Ottawa if you want to check out some very small towns with significant German heritage.

I think Coshocton, Roscoe Village, Zoar, Cadiz, Gnadenhutten, Erichisville (spelling?)...of course German Village, all have some German roots...

 

I assume the town listed above refers to Uhrichsville, just up the road from Gnadenhutten -- which was founded by Moravian missionaries from Germany and was the site of the 1782 massacre in which American militiamen murdered 96 Indian men, women and children who had spent the night praying.

You are pretty safe with just about town from Darke County to nearly Toledo. Putnam Cty is supposedly one of the most German places on earth - more German than Germany (no wars). OTR is the biggest in Cincy - though SE Indiana and Northern KY are also heavily German - perhaps retaining more of that personality than urban SW Ohio.

dont forget holmes county and the rest of amish country...where they still speak german. ye olde german that is.

Hamilton has a German Village and a number of german immigrants settled in Hamilton.