Hi,
Where did they come from and where did they go!
I have the birth record of my gtgtaunt Anna Maria FRITSCH born 1885 Schönborn; now Krásný Studenec, Děčín region, Czech Republic. There is a note to say that in 1912 she married Viktor Herman SONNTAG, son of Sigmund SONNTAG and Sophe maiden name BESCHORNER at Bodenbach (now known as Podmokly)
I have not yet tracked down this marriage.
I have not been able to find out any more about the SONNTAG / BESCHORNER family and have so far not found any other reference to these surnames in the Děčín area.
Top record on page
http://vademecum.soalitomerice.cz/vademecum/PaginatorMedia.action?_sourcePage=38PxljoBxNcVMi01V8JgZcUN5LwYXihFXCh1wvFlUrwbJ1Tm24m3BN3Un0e2nGc2LD5_XK7xI2s9PV41_oGByRuv6nz6KNq6LemmjeauYnw%3D&row=103My father can remember visiting the SONNTAG family farm at Schönborn when he was a small child so this would be the 1930's. We do not know what happened to them after WW2 - I presume being ethnic Germans they would have been expelled in the 1940's. Some Fritsch family settled in Bavaria, but my branch moved to Heidelberg as my granddad was a printer and he knew this was a centre for the printing industry.
I have looked at the 1921 census for Schönborn but did not find them, so perhaps they moved away and came back later on.
Has anyone any ideas where else to search or come accross these surnames?
I do not know if the family kept to the Catholic faith. In later life my granddad attended the Evangelisch church in Heidelberg.
I am assuming it is the Bodenbach/Podmokly in Děčín District though I have just found there are 2 more in Plzeň Region. However,I have no other links to Plzeň and the FRITSCH family roots were formerly in Huntířov (German: Güntersdorf) , a village and municipality (obec) in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. They did not seem to venture very far as I have traced them back there to the early 1700's!
Any ideas gratefully received.
Helen.