Right now these records are of no great use because they are very personal, but later they may be of interest.

If we try (in spite of the rareness of sources) to get an idea of how our ancestors lived, we can only conjecture. It is sure that the history of the family is closely connected with the history of the town of Weinsberg. Weinsberg is mentioned for the first time in a legend which relates the clever behavior of the women of Weinsberg. This was already 800 years ago, 350 years before the first Haeberlen was mentioned. But why shouldn't not one of our ancestors have been among the women who carried their husbands out of the town? (According to the legend, Weinsberg had been defeated by enemies; the women were allowed to carry as much of their belongings on their backs as they could and leave the town - so what the clever women did was carry their husbands out of town).

In the following years Weinsberg fought for its town charter. It had been a free town as well as Heilbronn. The little town had rich and power-hungry neighbors - the princes of the Weibertreu (a castle in Weinsberg) who tried everything to gain rulership over the town. the citizens fought for their rights and the princes had to give up their intention. But soon Weinsberg - as so many smaller towns in that time came under a different rulership: first it belonged to the Palatine, then to Wuerttemberg and for a short time to Austria: the times of the free town were over.