You are bidding on a marriage certificate from 1940 out ofLichtenstadt (Bohemia).
HroznEtín (German: Lichtenstadt) is a town in the Karlovarský kraj in the Czech Republic.
DatedLichtenstadt, 15. May 1940.
Issued and signed from the last German pastor Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Lichtenstadt, Georg Stoffl (*10. January 1906 in Neubäu / Novosedly).
In 1939, the Lichtenstadt parish included the towns of Lichtenstadt, Edersgrün, Großenteich, Halmgrün, Langgrün, Ruppelsgrün, Kaff, Lindig, Merkelsgrün, Tiefenbach, Ullersgrün, Salmthal and Wölfling.
One is certified Marriage on the 6th May 1911 in the church in Lichtenstadt: the draftsman Stephan Kamill Tutschner (* 1887 in Ulbersdorf as the son of the gardener Adolf Tutschner and Josefa, b. Moser), gets married Anna Dietl (* 1890 in Müllersgrün as the daughter of distillery supervisor Theodor Josef Dietl and Emilie, née Hohenberger). Both live in Merkelsgrün, which was part of the Lichtenstadt parish.
Form filled out by hand (15 x 21.2 cm).
Condition:Document folded and punched at the side; Paper stained. bplease note the pictures too!
Internal note: DokinZeitungen, Single 1
About the church (source: wikipedia):
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul (Czech kostel sv. Petra a Pavla) in the Czech town of Hroznětín (German: Lichtenstadt) is a protected architectural monument.
History: The founding of Lichtenstadt is associated with the blessed Hroznata († 1217), who founded the Tepl Abbey in 1193. The first place of worship may have been built at the beginning of the 13th century. Built in the 19th century by the Tepl Monastery in the center of Lichtenstadt. The single-nave building had a choir with a cross vault and a prismatic tower above the chancel. In 1384 the sacred building was listed in the court records as lucida civitatis. In 1413, the Archbishop of Prague, Konrad, confirmed a permanent chaplain to the church after an opinion from the abbot of Tepler.
With the introduction of the Reformation, the church became Protestant. In 1568 a new cemetery was built outside the market. In 1581 Johannes Macasius from Villach in Carinthia was pastor of Lichtenstadt. He was previously pastor of Platten in the Erzgebirge, exiled to Electoral Saxony during the Counter-Reformation and died in Zwickau in 1624. In 1592 the tower was rebuilt after a fire. After the Thirty Years' War, Catholic services were resumed. In 1643 the tower collapsed again. It was not until 1678 that reconstruction began in the form of an octagonal baroque bell tower by master carpenter Hans Georg Spaniger. In 1684, the future Archbishop of Prague, Daniel Ignaz Joseph Meyer, who had previously served as a pastor in Frühbusss in the Ore Mountains, was the pastor of Lichtenstadt.
Under the tenure of Pastor Bernhard Heidl, the church received its current baroque appearance from 1732 to 1734. The property developer was the Margravial Baden lordship of Schlackenwerth, which also had church patronage. The plans for the renovation came from an unknown architect, the foreman was Veit Männl and in 1733/34 Leopold Fischer. The sculptor and master stonemason Jakob Reitzner from Neudek, the carpenter Christoph Müller from Lichtenstadt, the carpenters Johann Paul Kraus from Lichtenstadt and Johann Mohr from Theusing, as well as the glassmaker Georg Adam Schneider from Lichtenstadt were also involved in the renovation.[4] In order to use the original presbytery as a sacristy, the Gothic triumphal arch was removed except for a smaller portal at the entrance to the sacristy. The new presbytery was built at the end of the expanded nave.
In 1751 the “Mariahilf” bell was built in Eger in honor of St. John of Nepomuk, St. Joseph and St. Pour Donata and hang it in the tower. The church was badly damaged in a fire in 1873. The older registers from Lichtenstadt, which were approx. Starting in 1650, lost. Karl Friedrich Richter led the reconstruction using the old masonry. The interior received a new interior in the Neo-Renaissance style and the tower received new bells from the bell founder Adam Pistorius from Eger. After a city fire it was re-consecrated in 1878.
In 1917 the bells had to be delivered for war purposes; only one bell remained in the tower. In 1921 Richard Herold from Komotau gave the church a new large bell. In 1930 Lichtenstadt had 4,047 Catholics and 103 non-Catholics. A restoration took place in 1933. In 1939, the large parish included the towns of Lichtenstadt, Edersgrün, Großenteich, Halmgrün, Langgrün, Ruppelsgrün, Kaff, Lindig, Merkelsgrün, Tiefenbach, Ullersgrün, Salmthal and Wölfling. The last German pastor was Georg Stoffl from Neubäu. After the German population was expelled after 1945, the church remained unused and was therefore in need of renovation. In 2009, parts of the exterior facade were restored and a new roof was installed. The Karlovy Vary region contributed an amount of CZK 200,000.
Description: The single-nave church is covered with a hipped roof. On the east side of the nave there is an octagonal tower with a pointed helmet. The sacristy on the ground floor of the tower replaces the original presbytery. The main facade of the church is divided with a rectangular entrance and semicircular windows with pilasters and niches. There is a rectangular volute gable above the facade. The long walls of the church are divided into four axes with semicircular windows. The sacristy with cross vaults is separated from the presbytery by a triumphal arch with beveled corners. The choir is vaulted by an oval dome, the nave has a flat ceiling. The interior walls are decorated with painted columns with a cornice that ends at the top.
Facilities: The original furnishings were destroyed in the church fire of 1873. It included the works of local painters and sculptors such as a large crucifix and a Holy Sepulcher by Wenceslaus and Karl Lorenz. Some statues of saints from the 18th/19th century. Century also from the Lorenz family of artists have been preserved. A silver chalice from 1734 decorated with angels and flowers bears the inscription PaVLVs GrIMb CapItaneVs ALtoVaDI VoVIt in the form of a chronogram on the edge. Another chalice in pseudo-Gothic form from 1892 from the workshop of the Prague goldsmith Johann Hirsch bears the engraved inscription Confirmandi anni 1892 parocho Franzisco Riedel hunc calicem fieri fecerunt.
Ringing: A bell from 1873 with a diameter of 0.58 m and a height of 0.55 m hangs in the church tower. The bell is decorated with reliefs of leaf wreaths. On the mantle of the bell there is a relief of the Virgin Mary and underneath the invocation of ora pro nobis. On the opposite side of the cloak is the inscription Fusa in fabrica campanarum Caroli Bellmann filiae Annae Pragae 1873. The second bell was delivered by Richard Herold from Komotau in 1921; it bears the inscription Richard Herold poured me in Komotau.
Parish district: In 1775, on the initiative of the rulers, a locality was built in Tüppelsgrün. Tüppelsgrün has been its own parish since 1784. Kammersgrün and Voigtsgrün were in the parish. There was a public chapel in Langgrün. Part of Tiefenbach was part of the parish of Schlackenwerth. Part of Halmgrün and Spittengrün was part of the parish of Zettlitz. Part of Salmthal was part of the parish of Bärringen. The following towns belonged to the Lichtenstadt parish:
Name Czech name
Edersgrün Odeř
GroLake Velký Rybník
Culm green (partial) Podlesí
Kaff Plešivec
Chamber sizeün (until 1784) Lužec
Long grün Dlouha
Lichtenstadt HroznEtin
Lindig Lipa
Merkelsgrün Merklín
Ruppelsgrün Ruprechtov
Salmthal (partial) Pstruži
Spike green (partially) Nivy
Tiefenbach (partly) Hluboký
Tüppelsgrün (until 1784) Děpoltovice
Ullersgrün Oldřiš
Voigtsgrün (until 1784) Fojtov
Cub Vlcinec