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Habartice (Ebersdorf) – Site of the Former Church of St. Gallus

Habartice (Ebersdorf) – Site of the Former Church of St. Gallus

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Habartice (Ebersdorf) – Site of the Former Church of St. Gallus

Name: Habartice (Ebersdorf) – Site of the Former Church of St. Gallus
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Location: Ústecký kraj, Severozápad, Czech Republic

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February 7, 2022

Habartice/Ebersdorf was founded by Frankish settlers in the 13th century. The place on the rough Bohemian ridge of the Ore Mountains was first mentioned in 1363 as Eberhartsdorf, probably named after the leader of the German immigrants. In 1374 we encounter the name form Habartivilla and 1392 Eberzdorff. Habartice is the Czech name for Ebersdorf.

Ebersdorf came into being as part of planned land development in northern Bohemia, which was still densely forested at the time. It was (like Nieder Seifersdorf, for example) a Waldhufendorf, in which each settler was assigned a piece of forest for clearing and building. The individual plots of land (hooves) were so large that their income could feed a family. The residential and commercial buildings were laid out along a street, resulting in typical row villages. The land and forest holdings of the individual settler families adjoined directly behind their homesteads in long, narrow plots.

Ebersdorf played a special role among the newly founded settlements in the area. A church was built here. The pastors of Ebersdorf had to ensure pastoral care in a spacious district. In the 16th century the region temporarily became Protestant, and in the 17th century it was Catholic again. In Ebersdorf, Jesuits from nearby Mariaschein (Bohosudov) pushed through the Counter-Reformation.

During the Thirty Years' War, more than half of the farms in Ebersdorf became deserted. War, famine and plague took their terrible toll. Ebersdorf had to endure troops passing through several times: Saxon, Swedish, imperial. Because the village was on the pass road over the Geiersberg, a transition between Saxony and Bohemia. The Ebersdorf parish was orphaned in the war crisis. In the meantime pastoral care was maintained from Kulm (Chlumec).

In 1783 the old church in Ebersdorf was demolished. A new church was built in the baroque style, which - in the tradition of the old church - was consecrated to St. Gallus. In 1800 a new vicarage was built. Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have stayed here in 1813 before he observed the defeat of his general Vandamme in the Battle of Kulm from the church tower in Nollendorf.

In 1900, 954 “Germans” and four “Czechs” lived in Ebersdorf. Even after the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, Ebersdorf – now officially Habartice – remained a 'German' village. Life on the Erzgebirge ridge was hard. Most of the residents worked in agriculture, but with modest earnings. Many women were employed at home, braiding and sewing straw hats, while the men sought work abroad in the winter. The population of Ebersdorf/Habartice has been steadily declining since the middle of the 19th century.

After World War II, the population of Habartice/Ebersdorf shared the sad fate of millions of German-speaking residents of Central and Eastern Europe. She was expelled from her homeland. This rough land was abandoned again seven centuries after the reclamation of the Bohemian Ore Mountains. The whole village was razed, more than two hundred houses were razed to the ground. The Church of St. Gallus was also destroyed - in January 1949.

Source: sanktgallus.net/die-kirchen/habartice-u-krupky

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2. View of Mückentürmchen – View from the Mückentürmchen loop from Fürstenwalde

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