RÁCKOZÁR – EGYHÁZASKOZÁR
Source:
Egyházaskozá-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.
