Author: Edward Langer

Edward G. Langer is a retired tax lawyer/CPA. He started researching German and Czech Emigration from Northeast Bohemia in 1974 and first traveled to the area in 1979. In the last ten years, he has served as tour guide for three groups of Americans who wanted to visit their ancestral villages. In 2019, the town of Lanškroun voted to bestow the town medal on Ed for his research efforts and his work to increase understanding between the people of Lanškroun and the descendants of the emigres. His article on the emigration from Northeast Bohemia has been published in both a Czech and a German periodical. He is a frequent speaker and has served on the board of numerous nonprofits including the German American Heritage Society of Wisconsin, Inc., the Island Church Foundation, and the Max Kade Institute at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He currently serves on the Board of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International.
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Landskron/ Lanškroun Tour – Fall, 2017

Landskron/ Lanškroun Tour

Fall, 2017

 

If you would like to join the tour group, please contact me at​​ edlanger@att.net​​ or (262) 966-2117.

Thursday, September 7

Travel day from Prague to Landskron

Orientation meeting in the evening, hopefully with the presentation of my PowerPoint​​ presentation on the emigration to America

Friday, September 8

Mariánská hora / Maria Zell​​ 

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Look-out Tower - Horní Čermná  ​​​​ (The tower allows beautiful views of the nearby peaks of Svitavské highlands, Zábřežské highlands but also distant peaks of the​​ Orlické (Eagle) Mountains. The visitors can further see especially immediate surroundings, including the township of Horní Čermná.)

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Lanšperk/Landsberg

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Letohrad museum and lunch stop

Hertersdorf/(Horní Houžovec -- visit ancestral home of the Blaschkas​​ and visit the chapel

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Liechtenstein Palace ruin/Novy Zamek – with a tavern inside

 

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Saturday, September 9

Kopa Festival all day

Morning – devoted to ancestral sites connecting with my Langer family with option of going to the Kopa instead

Ober​​ Johnsdorf/Horní Třešnovec - Visit Langer and Scheberle ancestral homes; point out other Watertown connected homes like Kreuziger, Klecker, Zeiner, Meitner

Dittersbach - visit church and Schmied ancestral home

​​ Čermná – visit church

 

Afternoon – devoted to​​ ancestral sites connected with other families on the tour with the option of going to the Kopa instead.

Rudelsdorf/Rudoltice – home village of many Waterloo settlers

Thomigsdorf/Damníkov – Gritzbauch village

 ​​​​ Olbersdorf/Albrechtice – Roffeis village

 

 

Sunday, September 10 -​​ Mass at Saint Wenceslaus Churchhttp://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/40138708.jpg

Landskron Museum tour

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St. Anna Church tour

pohled od severozápadu

 

 

 

 

 

 

St Mary Magdalene Church tour

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Monday, September 11

Visit city cemetery

Travel to Prague

 

 

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Fixing my website

I recently starting using Word Press for this website.  I started by stripping out all the old stories and then uploading them.

There are two things I need to work on with the uploads:

  1. When the text was re-formatted, error appeared.
  2. The photos and maps that I used in some of these pages did not upload.

When I get time, I will work on fixing these problems.

If in the meantime you want to see a better version of an article, email me at edlanger@att.net or edlanger@tds.net

Ed