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Very well renovated house with cows in the Eagle Mountains? In the mid fifties regional national committees extensive campaigns attracted workers from the interior to the border communities in the former Sudetenland. Especially in agriculture was a labor shortage. For "dosídlence" were mainly in smaller mountain and foothill communities ready to open houses and various material benefits. A prerequisite for obtaining the long-term establishment in the village and work in collective farms and tractor stations. In 1956, the recruitment brochure KNV in Hradec Kralove, which contains a clear list of communities in which they are dosídlenci welcome and a brief description. Read more »

Probably only few of us have knowledge of folk culture and customs of the Germans established in 1945 in the Eagle Mountains. After all visible references to the original German settlement today provide only a stone Calvary individual statues of saints or scattered in the landscape, which usually contain more legible inscriptions in German and also serves as evidence of popular piety in the region. Worse than the written word, of course, transmit or share traditional folk singing. The folk memory orlickohorského therefore have been virtually displaced by German folk songs. In live performance is not meeting with them already, I'm not aware of any publicly available historical records. Read more »