Hans der Storer is noted in Herbertingen in 1357. Kirchen had a Storer in 1641, nearby Zell in 1645, while Griesingen comes later. Ertingen, now a major center of Storrers and earlier of Storers, comprises with these other four towns Danube-related Storre settlements. Ertingen is above the right (eastern) bank of the Danube. Villingen is about 75 km nearly due west of Ertingen, and is on the Brigach river, a tributary of the Danube into which it flows 15 km south at Danaueschingen. It is these two towns, Villlingen and Ertingen, from which we suspect the first Storrers came to Siblingen, but we do not yet know which.

Southeast of Ertingen on the Oberschwabische Barockstraßr (Upper Swabian Baroque road) are towns where more recently Storrers have lived or now live. I show in particular Bad Schussenreid and the ceiling of one of the great Baroque churches, in Steinhaussen.

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Kirchen	Kirchen town center Griesingen, Donaukreis, Württemberg; 3 entries STöRRER, Hetterich; 1858 Thaddae STöRRER Katholisch, Griesingen, Donaukreis, Württemberg M; Ottilia HETTERICH Christina STöRRER (F)..... C: 8 Mar 1858	Griesingen
Zell, Donaukreis, Württemberg; 1 citation STORER; 1645 Leonhard STORER Zell, Donaukreis, Württemberg M; ? Engla STORER (F). B: Abt 1645	St.Oswald, Herbertingen Steinhaussen, near Bad Schussenreid
Bad Schussenreid is southeast of Herbertingen in an area of Storrers and good farmland	Church Choir (above) Bad Schussenreid, Organ loft (right) Bad Schussenried, Donaukreis, Württemberg 1 family STOHRER, 5 entries; 1842-1847 Karl Gottfried STOHRER Bad Schussenried, Donaukreis, Württemberg M; Caroline MAJER Hugo Albert Eberhard STOHRER (M)...... B: 23 Feb 1842 Carl Ludwig Eberhard STOHRER (M)...... B: 20 May 1843 Thekla Theodora STOHRER (F)........... B: 20 Feb 1847

While Villlingen is about 50 km from Siblingen (as the eagle flies) and Ertingen about 85, the overland route from Villingen is nearly 80 km and that from Ertingen may be only about 10 km more. At least that is what I can derive from what is likely to have been available roadways in the 14 hundreds which is when the first Storrer apparently moved to Siblingen. Since all the Storrers we've traced in the United States came from Siblingen, the interest in which of these towns is the source is high.

One Catholic church, and the view to the other ERTINGEN Storrer, the Stein works

To view the Ertingen graveyard and Ertingen Storrer/Storer family documents, click HERE.

Further, Konstanz/Constance on the Bodensee/Lake Constance is where we find the earliest form of the Storre coat of arms. Here a Catholic bishop; Franc. Carol. Storer (S.S.Theol. & Vice General, Konstanz, birth date unknown, died 28 Nov 1730) used that crest, which is on the wall of the ambulatory on the north side of the Catholic cathedral.

Lucas (named Bartholomäus) Storer is mentioned in the Bürgerbuch of Konstanz 9 June 1612. His dates are 1580 - 1614. He was a professional painter. He had one son, Johann Georg Storer.

Johann Christof Storer 1611 (1620?) - 1671 was a painter within the Catholic Baroque tradition. Some of his work is in the Munster Konstanz (Leinwandbilder 1659). He also made drawings to the statues of Peter and Paul at the High Alter and the epitaph Weihbischof Müller, Westwand. He is buried in the Schottengottesacker. He lived in Milan 1644-1652 and 1653?-1657. It is not known why he returned to Konstanz. His second wife, Angela Pamphorn, and Italian, died in 1685. He had three sons and a daughter; John Lucas (painter; went to Milan in 1644 with his father, died there in 1675), Franz Karl (died 1730, Dr. of theology and Domherr), third son name unknown but was a licensed jurist, and a daughter, name unknown, who lived in the Zoffinger kloster.

Other names in the Mitglieder des Konstanzer Rates are (dates of their listing as Rat)

Johann Christof Storer 1658 - 1671 (the third son of Johann Christof above?)

Ignatius Joseph Storer 1697-1710

Johann Carl Simon von Storer (1725 - 1737)