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(By Angela Keppel) Woltz Avenue is a street running about three-quarters\u00a0of a mile between Walden Avenue and Broadway in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood. \u00a0 The street is named after a family that had three generations who all held public office in the City of Buffalo!<\/p>\n
Woltz Avenue is technically named for Charles Woltz, who was on the Council at the time when the street was named. \u00a0The street was originally named Bowen Street. \u00a0The German residents of the\u00a0neighborhood would confuse Bowen with Bone, so many of them called the street knoche, which is the German word for bone, leading to confusion. \u00a0So while Charles was president of the Council (1893-1895), a petition was drawn up to change the street name, however the petitioners failed to give suggestions for what to name it. \u00a0When the Council granted the petition, they opted to name the street after their President.<\/p>\n
Charles was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1853. \u00a0When the Germans acquired that territory in 1870, he came to America because of his aversion to German militarism. \u00a0Years later, when he returned to visit his brother, he was immediately thrown into jail for evading compulsory service in the German army. \u00a0His brother effected his release, however Charles never returned to his homeland again.<\/p>\n
Read full story on\u00a0<\/a>Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time<\/a>—><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (By Angela Keppel) Woltz Avenue is a street running about three-quarters\u00a0of a mile between Walden Avenue and Broadway in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood. \u00a0 The street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,1136,843],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-broadway-fillmore","tag-buffalo","tag-woltz-avenue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-2HI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}