RÁCKOZÁR – EGYHAZASKOZAR
Source:
Egyhazaskozar-Angabe zur Geschichte des Dorfes by Johann Pfeiffer
Contributed by Christina
Aue
As per the
Bikal, Baranya church books, by 1735 a new settlement was established on the
devastated area of the former old Kozar town. At the beginning the villagers
were mostly Roman Catholic Croats, but later Hungarian and German settlers
arrived.
In 1751 there
were 33 Families: 18 Croats, 12 German, and 3 Hungarian families.
The first
German families were: Rohrpek, Silling (Schiling?), Klein, Schat, Huk,
Resch, Allrutz, Theowalt, Carl, Kluck and Keller.
The first
Croat families were: Csaulovics, Simak, Mendlich, Szlatkicza, Brebek,
Bunovich, Kerusvich, Chikovich, Galaba, Horsak and Radar.
The first
Hungarian families were: Nemet, Csordas and Horvath.
Around 1750
Johann Birkenstock from Felsönána and Johann Weiss from Hant built
their houses in Kozar. Heinrich Imel arrived from Mekényes, Johann
Loch from Hant, Philipp Pruscher most likely from Györköny,
Andreas Hag from Varsad or Bonyhad, Johann Petermann, a miller,
arrived from Bikal.
In 1775
in the ‘Deutsche Gasse’ lived already 800 people in 112 homesteads. By 1777
the German Lutherans were the majority in the village with the permission of
the Landholders Petrovszky. Johan Heinrich Birkenstock became
village’s Richter in 1778. Kozar became the 3rd largest German
Lutheran settlement on the domain of the Count Esterhazy.
May 2010
