This picture shows you the last person with the surname "Medernach" who lived in the village of Medernach : Nicolas Medernach, born 1898, died 28.01.1943, his calling name was "Jee's Néckel"
He was a boy from a big farmer family and fell down a barn's roof and was seriously injured, and he kept terrible headaches his whole life around.
When he grew up, he left his family and decided to live in the forest under the sandy rocks. Just in wintertime he came back to the village to do some works for the farmers and sleep in the warm barn and eat warm soup. He was harmless, but children and women were quite afraid of him, because of his looks and black beard.
In 1940, when the Hitler troops came to Luxembourg, he was declared "unsocial" and was moved to an asylum in Diekirch, where he died 1943.
He had 4 sisters : Catharina, Elisabeth, Helena and Maria, his parents were Wilhelm Medernach and Catharina Scholtes.
