Margarethe’s generation was the last of the most prosperous era for Dollhopfs, the last of the mill owners. She was an “hourglass” great-grandmother. There were at least 30 Dollhopfs living in and around Mistelbach in her generation. But in the next generation, following the Thirty Years War, her youngest son Cuntz would be the only Mistelbach Dollhopf who survived. She was the narrow neck of the hourglass, through which only one grain of sand passed.