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I am a descendant of the Liebetzeit/Librcajt, Wolf, Šubrt/Schubert and other families of Hřešice. This web page lists the records that I have found or to which I have been alerted by Zuzana Jičínská. -- Wesley Johnston
Contents Germans in the Czech Lands Hřešice was part of the enormous Mšec estate -- just one of many such enormous estates in Bohemia owned by the Schwartzenberg family. Prior to the Battle of White Mountain (Bílá Hora) in 1620, Czech nobles owned the estate. But German nobles took the lands after the Battle. And so the Schwartzenberg family came to own the estate. This is not part of what was considered German-Bohemia (the area called the "Sudetenland" by Germany before and during World War II). It lies fully within the Czech Lands, only about 30 miles (50 km) from Prague. But as the estate of a German noble family, it apparently was a center for other German families -- which ultimately became Czech families. My Czech ancestors' surnames of Šubrt, Wolf and Librcajt were almost certainly originally German Schubert, Wolf and Lieberzeit. Even in the earliest records I have found, they married with clearly Czech surnames: Hladik, Svitil, Malypetr, Zeman. But these Schubert, Wolf and Lieberzeit families were almost certainly originally German. By the time they emigrated to America in the late 1800's, my Šubrt ancestors considered themselves entirely Czech and spoke Czech and in fact joined the Congregation of Bohemian Freethinkers in Chicago. Some of the Seigniorial Registers of Mšec (called Kornhaus by the Germans) explicitly identify some pages as listing Germans. For example, the 1765 register, written in Czech, begins "Miestiss Kornhaus / Strana Niemeczta" (Town of Kornhaus / German ?Part or Page?). And the 1781 register, also written in Czech, begins "Kornhauska Niemeczta Obecza" (Kornhaus German Village). In the 1781 register, there is a separate section, not identified as German, for Kornhaus. So there were explicitly German enclaves on the estate. And sure enough, there was a Wolf family at Kornhaus #53 (and in the Orphans section), although at this point I have no idea if they are connected to my own Wolf ancestors at Hřešice, which had no German designation in the register. My Šubrt/Schubert ancestors trace back to Třebíz, which was apparently just east of the estate. The bottom line is that these were almost certainly originally German families. But when did they come to the Czech Lands/Bohemia? Had they been there for generations before the Battle of White Mountain? Or were they brought in by the Schwartzenbergs to colonize the area? There is much yet to be learned. |
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This part of the web page lists the sections I have found in the church registers. All of the records are on the SOA Praha web site. I only include here the registers in which I have searched. Pozdeň 01 - 1718-1755 - NOZ - No Index Register Number/Letter: 1 Towns: Bílichov, Hořešovice, Hořešovicky, Hřešice, Jedomělice, Líský, Pozdeň, Zichovec Languages: mostly Latin, some Czech, but with German spelling of some names (places, people) Pozdeň 02 - 1756-1784 - NOZ - No Index Register Number/Letter: 2 Towns: Bílichov, Hřešice, Jedomělice, Líský, Pozdeň Languages: mostly Latin, some Czech, but with German spelling of some names (places, people)
SOA Litomerice Zuzana wrote:
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Main Search Map Black numbers are house numbers. Red numbers enumerate land sections. Google Translate can not handle the images. So it is best to view these in the Google Chrome browser with translation into English. Or you can use Old Maps Online | |||
| 1841 (4 image files; no names) | 1841 (3 image files; no names) | 1844 (1 image of all parts; with names) | 1876 (4 image files; no names) |
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Area report 1845 vs 1948
Not sure what this measures |
Legend (in German) for the cadastral maps
does not apply fully to all maps - e.g. no yellow buildings in legend | ||
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Hřešice was part of the enormous Mšec estate -- just one of many such enormous estates in Bohemia owned by the Schwartzenberg family. Thus it was included in many years of seigniorial registers. The Trebon Regional Archive has online digitized images of many of these, dating from 1655 to 1842, though not all years are included. The records are hand-written in both Czech and German, sometimes with both languages in a single entry. In many cases, the last or next to last image has a table of contents with a list of all the cvillages included and their relevant page numbers (the page numbers written atop each page). Each town has three sections.
The following are links to the first Hřešice page in each register. It was usually right after Srbec and right before Hořešovice in each register. Years without links have no Hresice entries. |
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Hřešice was part of the enormous Mšec estate -- just one of many such enormous estates in Bohemia owned by the Schwartzenberg family. Thus it was included in many years of land records. The Trebon Regional Archive has online digitized images of many of these, dating from 1622 to 1879, though not all years are included. |
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These links are all thanks to Zuzana Jičínská.
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These links are all thanks to Zuzana Jičínská.
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