Hello everybody,
I’m planing to start a one-place-study soon about a village formerly called Kuneschhau and first would like to give a bit information. At the end I also have a question about the naming.
Kuneschhau was founded in 1342 by German miners hired by the King of Hungary to mine gold in a quite remote and uninhabited area of his realm. The settlers build a mining town (Kremnitz) and several surrounding villages to provide the agricultural products needed. The people then have been forgotten by their paternal nation, but they did not mix much with the Slavic neighbors either, from which they were separated by forest and mountains. They managed to keep and preserve their culture, tradition an even the medieval language or dialect for 600 years. They finally were reincorporated by the Nazi regime against their will in 1940 into the German Reich. Some of them even fought side by side with the Slovakian partisan movement against the Nazis. That was the reason that at the end of WW2 when the Nazis had to retreat, they did burn down the village as retribution. After the war nevertheless nearly all German people were forced to leave the new founded Czechoslovakian Republic just because the were“German”. That was the end of it for this culture after 600 years. The inhabitants of Kuneschhau, over 400 families, have been scattered over all of Europe, mostly Germany but also Austria, France, Italy and Scandinavia. Some even went to America or Australia.
For the OPS I’m going to create a profile for every person who lived in Kuneschhau right before the Nazis came to destroy it. I have a list of every head of household or family that was expelled in 1945. Next step would be to give them their ancestors back up to the year 1700 (for now), so that most of them will be connected to each other. Main goal of this is to try to give every descendant of these expelled people who has an interest in genealogy a place to find their roots and reconnect with unknown cousins.
Therefor I would like to encourage everyone with ancestors from Kuneschhau to get in contact with me, to figure out how he or she fit into the greater picture. By the way I'm the great-grandson of Josephus Neuschl, called Juschko Noëschl paum Ëusbold in medieval dialect. :)
And now the question: How to name that study? Kuneschhau (or Konesch-Haÿ in old language) is the old German name of the village. From 1342 to 1918 it was part of the kingdom of Hungary (Komitat Bars). The Hungarian officials called it Kunosvágása, but not the inhabitants themselves. Nowadays it is called Konošov and belongs to the Republic of Slovakia (Okres Žiar nad Hronom), but this has nothing to do anymore with the aim of this study.
I really want to keep Kuneschhau as a part of the name, so descendants can find it easily. But what region should be added best? Bars, as it was true for like 98% of the time, or Žiar nad Hronom as it is now? Or maybe only the country Slovakia. If its not to long and bulky also Kuneschhau (Konošov), Slovakia One Place Study could be an option? What do the experts have in mind?
Greetings so far, Danny
