By Uli Axthelm:
Dear members of the Axthelm clan,
Following our clan gathering on May 30th in Ostramondra, I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who attended. After a ten-year hiatus, it was a great joy to see so many members of our extended “Axthelm” family again, to welcome over 20 additional Axthelms for the first time, and to spend a wonderful, memorable day together.
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026, 2:00 PM
Location: Germany, 99636 Ostramondra, Schloßstraße 1
Community Center “Bayrischer Hof”
Please RSVP in writing, including your name and address, by April 30, 2026 to:
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Did you know that an Axthelm namesake founded a toy company with the most realistic stuffed animals you’ve ever seen? There is more information about this in the article on Hansa Creation.
At the Nuremberg Toy Fair 30 Jan to 3 Feb 2024 you can see the animals live.
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In the article “Operation Lumber Room” you can find out a lot about General Walther von Axthelm, among other things. It is a very interesting war history article about the development of the v1 flying bomb “doodlebug” from the point of view of the Germans in WWII.
Approx. 24 min reading time.
Dear Axthelms and everyone who identifies with this name!
Due to the still existing pandemic restrictions, I would like to finally inform everyone that the clan meeting planned for May 29, 2021 in Ostramondra cannot take place. Maybe next year there will be the opportunity to catch up on our social event in the same period and under better conditions. For this, however, specific information will follow later.
Happy Pentecost to everyone, health and all the best until then.
Your Karl-Ulrich Axthelm
You can now read more information about how the court manufacturer Paul Axthelm came from coach building to body and luxury car building – just visit our family stories pages.
At our Family Stories you can now read some interesting background information about the carriage building company Darr & Axthelm.
© Parish area Eckartsberga and surroundings
You can now read a report about Pastor Axthelm, his ministry in the Eckartsberga parish and the old pulpit in the Eckartsberga church HERE in the family stories.
Now online is the newspaper article from the newspaper “Thüringer Allgemeine” about the Axthelm Sippentreffen in Ostramondra-Rettgenstedt on May 21, 2016 with the inauguration of the restored old clan monument.
© Wikipedia, Sebastian Wallroth / CC BY
In an article of 1988, German newspaper DIE ZEIT reported about Lena Louise Axthelm, who was a cook of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Here you can read everything about her attempt to make the delicacy Thuringian dumplings palatable for the writer Goethe.
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