Myslív

Myslív
Municipality
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Myslív
Coordinates: 49°25′15″N 13°34′22″E / 49.42083°N 13.57278°E / 49.42083; 13.57278Coordinates: 49°25′15″N 13°34′22″E / 49.42083°N 13.57278°E / 49.42083; 13.57278
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Plzeň
District	Klatovy
Area
• Total	15.74 km2 (6.08 sq mi)
Elevation	583 m (1,913 ft)
Population  (1.1.2015)
• Total	426
• Density	27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Postal code	341 01
Website	http://www.obecmysliv.cz/cs

Myslív (not to be confused with Schneiderhof in Domazlice renamed to Mysliv) is a village and municipality (obec) in the Klatovy District of the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 15.74 square kilometres (6.08 sq mi), and has a population of 426 (as of 2019). Myslív lies approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Klatovy, 40 km (25 mi) south of Plzeň, and 96 km (60 mi) south-west of Prague. From the mid 1800s to early 1900s, more than 100 of its inhabitants have been documented as immigrating to America.

Subvillages (different population statistics): Loužná, Milčice, Nový Dvůr, Draha

Other villages that historically attended its parish: Nehodiv, Kovčín, Pohoří, Polánka, Štipoklasy, Strážovice, Chlumy, Bližanovy, Klikařov, Neurazy, Vojovice, and various hamlets/mills. Strážovice changed to the Těchonice parish, Chlumy changed to the Kvášňovice parish, and the latter 4 villages later attended Neurazy's parish. Kovčín temporarily attended the Nepomuk parish for part of the 18th century.

History[]

Fragment of the former Cistercian monastery in Klášter

Zelená Hora Castle

The first known mentioning of Myslív is from 1352, calling it "Myslewa", essentially a localized diminutive of a word referring to the acquiring of game or fish and related to its legacy of fish ponds.^[1][2] The modern name is closer to the German version which removes the characteristic Czech southwest ending vowel. For much of its history, locals referred to it as "Myslivo". The village is believed to have been created sometime after 1144 by Catholic Cistercian monks of a monastery about 6 miles north in efforts of local colonization. The monastery's central village was Pomuk (now Nepomuk). Near Myslív, the monks opened the "Vráž" gold mines which drove some of its early economy.^[3]

By 1384, Myslív had its own Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. For several hundred years, it would serve as the parish seat for many of its surrounding villages.^[4] In 1393, a priest and vicar-general for St. Giles' Church in Prague named Jan (from Pomuk) was killed and tortured by order of King Václav IV for confirming a Roman-papacy candidate as Abbot of Kladruby instead of one for Avignon. As a result, Jan became recognized as a local legendary religious-figure "Jan Nepomucký" or "John of Nepomuk," leading to pilgrimage and his later sainthood.

On the hill between Pomuk and the monastery, Hussite forces created a fort in 1419 which became Zelená Hora Castle in 1424. They destroyed the monastery in 1420 which in-turn made Myslív into property of the castle and estate and probably converted it to Protestantism.^[5] The monastery's ruins became the village of Klášter (equivalent to "cloister").

Myslív's church

The area's economy centralized around pond-development and fish-farming, represented by the meaning of its name and the carp in its flag. The nearby village Milčice was rebuilt in another location in 1608 to connect two smaller ponds for this purpose.^[6] During the Thirty Years' War, Myslív was owned by Adam II. ze Šternberka as part of the town of Plánice within the Zelená Hora estate, later owned by Maxmilián Valentin z Martinic .^[1] In 1630, Myslív was districted to Plánice, possibly on order of the Habsburgs because of the Hussite control of Nepomuk. Because of the war, the Monarchy led efforts of re-Catholization and Germanisation of the Czech lands. Since at least 1643, Myslív's church has kept vital records of its member villages, used to document and verify baptisms and marriages as Catholic rather than Protestant though some pages of the 17th century are torn or lost.^[7] In the 1654 tax list, nine senior farmers are named though many families lived in the village at that time.^[8] From parish and school records of the 1600s to early 1800s, it's apparent that recorded surnames often changed depending on which household a person lived at, causing genealogical confusion. For example, Martin Noháček (whose father's surname was actually Stupka) married Mariana Pavelcová in 1733. After moving into her household, his name was changed to Martin Pavelec and records of his descendants use both names.

Cemetery[]

Myslív has had 2 cemeteries: Podvrškojc (?-1785 & part of 1800s) and Pod Jandečkojc] (1785-? & 1868-)

Population[]

According to available census information, Myslív was historically overwhelmingly Catholic with some temporary Jewish residents.

As of 2019, the population is currently 426.

Genealogy and immigration to America[]

Because of increased immigration due to the end of the Mexican-American War and start of the California Gold Rush, since the mid-1800s, about 137 people born in Myslív have been identified as moving to America along with many others from the general vicinity. The very first, possibly from the whole parish, might have been Jan "John" Duban (1820-1897) and his family who moved to Illinois side of the St. Louis area around 1851. Given that American Czechs were a significant minority, most of his children married people of German descent. Afterwards, immigration increased with the foundation of Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1857 through which a majority of Myslív's immigrants traveled by ship from Bremen to Baltimore.

Duban was followed by the Tichacek family several years later (no known connection between the two). The Tichacek's temporarily lived in Myslív where one of their sons Alois was born in 1857. Shortly afterwards, they also moved to St. Louis. Immigration slowed for a time in the 1860s because of the American Civil War in which Duban served in the Union Army. Within a couple years after the war ended, people from Myslív poured in waves through the port of Baltimore. Many of those who settled in Baltimore nested in Little Bohemia and were early participants of the St. Wenceslaus Church. The Brozik and Zeman families moved to Iowa. Josefa Silovska, who married in Baltimore, was brought to Oklahoma City by her husband during the Land Rush of 1889. Frantiska Protivova's family and the Sevcik's moved to Minnesota. The Zoubkova sisters moved to Cook County, Illinois and Ohio. Some of the Nocar's moved to Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Washington. The immigrants are listed as follows (women are paired with their maiden names):

Embarkation	Arrival	Immigrants	Photos
	c. 1851 probably New Orleans	Duban - Jan (1820-1897) [early census][14] Marie (1845-1910), Frantiska (1848-1902) Kroupa - Marie (1824-1903) [wife of Jan Duban] Jan served in the 1st Missouri, US Reserve Corps Infantry for the Union Army in the America Civil War.
	1 November 1857[15] probably New Orleans	Tichacek - Alois (1857-1923) [with his parents and siblings, early census][16] Alois was elected into the Missouri House of Representatives of the Missouri General Assembly as a Democrat for St Louis' 2nd district in 1902.[17]
	c. 1867	Brozik - Marie (1834-1918) [with her husband from Polanka, Kaspar Zeman, and 2 children, early census][18] Zeman - Marie (1859-1950)], Josef (1865-1954)
Str. Berlin Bremen	18 June 1868 Baltimore	Brozik - Matej (1832-1881)[19] [with his wife from Chlumy, Josefa Kralova and 2 children],[20] Marie (1861-1928),[20] Barbora (1866-1945)[20]
Str. Hermann Bremen	3 May 1869 New York	Liska - Frantiska (1850-1931)
SS Baltimore Bremen	14 August 1869 Baltimore	Rada - Jan (1830-1882) [with his wife from Nehodiv, Josefa Zelena and 4 children],[21] Marie (1855-1922),[22] Vaclav (1857-1911),[23] Anna (1866-1914),[24] Blazej (1868-1916)[25]
SS Ohio Bremen	22 April 1870 Baltimore	Brozik - Marie (1848-1885)
Str. Baltimore Bremen	7 May 1870 Baltimore	Picka - Olivie (1848-) Solar - Josef (1846-1930)[26] Josef changed his name to "Soler" and married Frantiska Liskova in Baltimore.
SS Hermine Bremen	11 June 1870 Baltimore	Silovsky - Josef (1823-1912), Marie (1859-1898), Josefa (1862-), Josef (1865-)
SS Berlin Bremen	16 November 1870 Baltimore	Santora - Antonie (1822-1903) Arrived in 1870, left in 1872, and returned in 1881.
SS Donau Bremen	9 September 1871 New York	Fleischmann - Anna (1831-1902) [with her husband from Městys Staňkov, Rehor Zak and several children][27]
	c. 1880	Koncal - Josef (1850-) Blaha - Anna (1865-1943)
SS Hermann Bremen	7 May 1880 Baltimore	Protiva - Frantiska (1854-1913) [with her husband from Nehodiv, Petr Koncal, children, stepmother Katerina Protivova (nee Klausova) and a girl Josefa Ursova of Loužná][28] Sevcik - Frantisek (1858-1952) [index][29] Jan (1860-1948)[30]
SS Ohio	16 July 1880 Baltimore	Kadane - Frantisek (1875-1942) [index][31]
SS Leipzig Bremen	12 June 1881 Baltimore	Duban - Vojtech (1861-1927)[32]
SS Hohenzollern Bremen	17 June 1881 Baltimore	Rada - Frantisek (1865-)
	c. 1881	Sevcik - Vaclav (1862-1930), Matej (1865-1946)
	c. 1882	Kolarik - Josef (1863-1946) Visek - Matej (1861-1927)
SS Köln Bremen	13 November 1882 Baltimore	Duban - Karel (1867-1914)[33] Muchna - Marie (1861-1949)[34] Sevcik - Jan (1838-1916),[35] Frantisek (1875-1964)[36] Sramek - Barbora (1838-1926) [wife of Jan Sevcik],[37] Terezie (1872-1970)[38] Karel Duban was possibly Jan Sevcik's illegitimate son.
SS Hohenstaufen Bremen	27 April 1883 Baltimore	Duban - Emanuel (1858-1943) [temporarily returned had a son who might've been born in Mysliv, then went back to America],[39] Kolarik - Frantisek (1868-1951)[40] Sramek - Frantiska (1852-1924) [with her husband from Nehodiv, Frantisek Koncal, and their 5 children][41] Koncal - Frantisek (1873-1892),[42] Marie (1875-1966),[43] Frantiska (1877-1959),[44] Josef (1880-1938),[45] Anna (1883-1969)[46] Muchna - Alois (1859-) [immigrated then went back to Mysliv],[47] Picka - Vojtech (1868-1891)[48] Posavad - Marie (1864-1939)[49] Sevcik - Emanuel (1868-1952)[50]
SS Weser Bremen	6 July 1883 Baltimore	Picka - Josefa (1865-1930)[51] Santora - Josef (1866-1942)[52] Rada - Marie Josef was the nephew of Frantiska Liskova.
SS Hermann Bremen	21 December 1883 Baltimore	Visek - Jan (1863-)[53]
SS America Bremen	20 December 1884 Baltimore	Sládek - Aemilián (1864-1907)
SS Rhein Bremen	13 September 1886 Baltimore	Visek - Josefa (1872-1912)[54]
SS Köln Bremen	20 April 1887 Baltimore	Mixan - Vaclav (1878-1913) Rada - Josef (1875-1962) Half brothers
SS Main	25 October 1887 Baltimore	Hanzlik - Antonin (1869-1939) [index][55] Posavad - Frantiska (1875-1936) [index][56]
SS America Bremen	10 March 1888 Baltimore	Halek - Frantisek (1870-1907)[57] Sevcik - Jan (1869-1930)[58] Sramek - Anna (1869-1946),[59] Anna (1888-1956) [illegitimate, her mother married Jan Sevcik][60]
SS Braunschweig Bremen	1 May 1888 Baltimore	Slechta - Josef (1870-1927)[61]
SS Donau Bremen	25 July 1888 Baltimore	Santora - Anna (1854-1935)[62] Sevcik - Frantisek (1876-1959)[63]
SS Main Bremen	21 February 1889 Baltimore	Posavad - Anna (1871-1934) Sevcik - Josef (1875-1933)[64]
SS München Bremen	18 June 1889 Baltimore	Liska - Jan (1856) [with his wife Anna Vrana and son. They moved back to Mysliv after having a son Joseph], Anna (1876-1959) [his niece] Vladar - Marie (1820-1891) [with her second husband Jan Zeleny from Nehodiv] Marie was the mother of Josef Solar.
SS Dresden Bremen	29 May 1890 Baltimore	Kolarik - Jan (1873-1951)[65]
SS Dresden Bremen	10 June 1891 Baltimore	Visek - Anna (1876-1957)
	c. 1892	Nocar - Anna (1876-1915)
13 September 1894 SS Weser Bremen	27 September 1894 Baltimore	Moravec - Anna (1873-1954)[66]
27 September 1894 SS Braunschweig Bremen	14 October 1894 Baltimore	Nocar - Jan (1852-) [to meet an unknown sibling, possibly sister in law Josefa],[67]
	c. 1895	Houdek/Nocar - Marie (1871-1929)
28 November 1895 SS Aachen Bremen	18 December 1895 Baltimore	Nocar - Jan (1875-1958)
9 April 1896 SS Willehad Bremen	23 April 1896 Baltimore	Slechta - Marie (1878-1967) [born in Mysliv but moved to Horazdovice][68]
17 September 1896 SS Necker Bremen	2 October 1896 Baltimore	Posavad - Frantisek (1875-1954)
5 November 1896 SS Aachen Bremen	25 November 1896 Baltimore	Benda - Anna (1875-1947)[69] Houdek - Antonie (1850-1908)[70] Muchna - Antonie (1875-1964) [with an unknown aunt who died][71] Nocar - Vaclav (1880-1946),[72] Josefa (1886-1960),[73] Alois (1890-1966),[74] Jaroslav (1894-1962),[75] Ruzena (1896-1896)[76] Sevcik - Vaclav (1883-1944)[77]
	bef. 1897 Baltimore	Nocar - Josef (1879-1897)
19 November 1897 SS Bonn Bremen	2 December 1897 Baltimore	Nocar - Terezie (1877-)[78]
19 September 1899 SS Lahn Bremen	28 September 1899 New York	Epstein - Adolf (1874-1924)[79]
24 October 1901 SS Frankfurt Bremen	6 November 1901 Baltimore	Posavad - Anezka (1884-1963) Sevcik - Vincenc (1887-1972)[80]
17 April 1902 SS Hannover Bremen	2 May 1902 Baltimore	Moravec - Antonie (1881-1960), Josefa (1886-1971) Visek - Josefa (1885-)
11 October 1902 SS Cassel Bremen	27 October 1902 Baltimore	Houdek - Vaclav (1853-)[81]
29 April 1903 SS Kronprinz Wilhelm Cherbourg	6 May 1903 New York	Nocar - Josef (1886-1925)[82]
	c. 1905	Nocar - Vaclav (1881-)
25 May 1905 SS Main Bremen	8 June 1905 Baltimore	Casta - Vaclav (1857-) [name crossed out][83] Posavad - Antonie (1892-1979)[84] Zoubek - Marie (1886-1952),[85]
	c. 1906	Nocar - Josef (1855-) [returned to Mysliv] Sladek - Marie (1858-) [wife of Josef Nocar, returned to Mysliv] Frantisek was the nephew of Josefa Pickova
27 March 1906 SS Kronprinz Wilhelm Bremen	4 April 1906 New York	Muchna - Marie (1890-)[86]
6 May 1906 SS Hannover Bremen	21 May 1906 Baltimore	Kolarik - Terezie (1889-1952)[87] Sporka - Josefa (1887-1976)[88] Zoubek - Ruzena (1890-1972)[89]
30 August 1906 SS Rhein Bremen SS Rhein (converted to the USS Susquehanna)	11 September 1906 Baltimore	Muchna - Frantiska (1887-1973)[90] Nocar - Josef (1886-) [returned to Mysliv][91]
	11 October 1906 Baltimore	Masek - Frantisek (1885-1960)
	c. 1907	Moravec - Frantisek (1882-1954)
14 February 1907 SS Breslau Bremen SS Breslau (converted to USAT Bridgeport)	1 March 1907 Baltimore	Muchna - Jan (1886-1930)[92] Sporka - Juliana (1891-1963)[93]
4 July 1907 SS Brandenburg Bremen	20 July 1907 Baltimore	Masek - Josefa (1889-1939)[94] Zoubek - Anezka (1892-1972),[95] Josefa was the younger sister of Frantisek.
24 August 1907 SS Bremen Bremen	3 September 1907 New York	Nocar - Antonin (1883-1955)[96]
	c. 1908	Zoubek - Emilie (1888-)
11 March 1909 SS Rhein Bremen SS Rhein (converted to the USS Susquehanna)	27 March 1909 Baltimore	Blaha - Frantisek (1879-) [to meet a Jan Sramek][97]
25 November 1911 SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Bremen	4 December 1911 Ellis Island	Sevcik - Josef (1874-)
	before 1917 Baltimore	Sporka - Josef (1885-1918) Lived in Curtis Bay, died from an accident in the US Army in France.[98]
5 October 1921 SS Nieuw Amsterdam Rotterdam	15 October 1921 New York	Zoubek - Blazena (1905-1987)[99]
8 October 1921 SS Mount Clay Hamburg	18 October 1921 New York	Sevcik - Marie (1898-1943)[100]
29 November 1922 SS Orbita Hamburg	11 December 1922 Ellis Island	Masek - Anna (1898-1981), Emilie (1904-2000) Anna and Emilie were the younger sisters of Frantisek and Josefa.
28 September 1922 RMS Saxonia Cherbourg	9 October 1922 New York	Vitek - Jan (1907-1941)[101]
30 September 1951 USNS General W. G. Haan (T-AP-158) Bremerhaven	9 October 1951 New York	Sevcik - Josef (1906-1961)

Culture[]

Historically, social life commonly took place in pubs where men drank, narrated, and cheered with many staying until morning, coming home to "hear the endless lamentation of his wife." Myslív's grandmothers regularly went to church for rorates in the morning, and in the evening they drove feathers around the cottages. The washing of the feathers was then closed by doders, when they were singing, feasting and dancing. In the carnival time, villagers disguised in masquerade would run around, representing a traditional shaggy laufra, a masked figure walking at the head of the procession, a running Jew with a punch on his back, a photographer or a mare.

God's punishment for wasting food and goods was widely believed and money would be spent carefully so as to not be condemned for scandalism. People in the village and in the city counted every issued tailor. So, for example, the bark for tannery was peeled from the trees that had been slaughtered during the sap, and the peeled peeling consisted of borders for paper mills. The woodcutters used the brush and the skins at home by cutting them into small pieces and tied them in haggles. These were then settled on the walls throughout the summer. Wads, dry lands and stumps have served as (today one would say excellent ecological) fuel throughout the winter.

Notable residents[]

• Ladislav Stehlík, (1908 - 1987) poet, writer

Landmarks[]

• Church of the Assumption
• Rectory

Districts[]

• Myslív
• Loužná
• Milčice
• Nový Dvůr

Gallery[]

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  Village square

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  Houses

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References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Myslív.

• Czech Statistical Office: Municipalities of Klatovy District