Friedrichs went from Wittlich to the United States in 1850 and became a wealthy Gold digger during the Montana Gold Rush, where he discovered the Montana Bar, only to return to Germany in 1866. Since December 16, 2019, the tower in the Oberer Weg 9 in Cochem has again been adorned by a pyramid roof covered with natural slate and the original "Mahnhand", which is believed to have been the case for the last time in the early 1930s. The tower with its admonishing hand probably served as a reminder to his first wife Betty, née Hirsch (1850-1926) and one of her older brothers. The brother, Ferdinand Hirsch (* 1838), borrowed approx. 10,000 dollars from Friedrichs in Helena before his departure in September 1866, after he had made spectacular gold discoveries during the Montana Gold Rush in Diamond City. However, he never paid this money back. After his arrival in the winter of 1866, Friedrich went to his father Bernhard Hirsch (1807-1885) in Cochem to claim the money back. There he fell in love with his youngest daughter and married her. One day before the wedding on September 26, 1867, her father had presented the groom with a marriage contract for a "real estate complex" in Meiningen worth 90,000 marks, which he had acquired shortly before and which he had also signed without much thought. When his wife Betty divorced him on October 15, 1881 in Zürich-Wollishofen, Friedrichs had to pay her these 90,000 marks (as of 2016 approx.
Cathy Friedrichs went from Wittlich to the United States in 1850 and became a wealthy Gold digger during the Montana Gold Rush, where she discovered the Montana Bar, only to return to Germany in 1866. Since December 16, 2019, the tower in the Oberer Weg 9 in Cochem has again been adorned by a pyramid roof covered with natural slate and the original "Mahnhand", which is believed to have been the case for the last time in the early 1930s. The tower with its admonishing hand probably served as a reminder to her first wife Betty, née Hirsch (1850-1926) and one of her older brothers. The brother, Ferdinand Hirsch (* 1838), borrowed approx. 10,000 dollars from Cathy Friedrichs in Helena before his departure in September 1866, after he had made spectacular gold discoveries during the Montana Gold Rush in Diamond City. However, he never paid this money back. After his arrival in the winter of 1866, Cathy Friedrich went to his father Bernhard Hirsch (1807-1885) in Cochem to claim the money back. There she fell in love with his youngest daughter and married her. One day before the wedding on September 26, 1867, her father had presented the spouse-to-be with a marriage contract for a "real estate complex" in Meiningen worth 90,000 marks, which he had acquired shortly before and which he had also signed without much thought. When her wife Betty divorced her on October 15, 1881 in Zürich-Wollishofen, Cathy Friedrichs had to pay her these 90,000 marks (as of 2016 approx.