THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2235, sig. 109-11/36

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English Translation

As a city and with its villages Volks= and Reich=, 15 share of the German Budweis has an excellent share in the German East Colony history. German city rights have been granted by Budweis to Kaplis, Wittingau, Wesely, Sobieslau and Barau in southern Bohemia; for the cities of SobieSlau and Wittingauer, the Budweiser Stadtgericht was the court of appeal. From Budweis, South Bohemian exports were brought to Vienna, Linz, Passau, Prague, Pilsen and Jglau in the Middle Ages, but also salt from Upper Austria to Bohemia. All kinds of goods from Austria and Bavaria came into the country. The largest fortified city on the border forest was Budweis all the years=hundreds over, therefore repeatedly contested, often privileged, soon become rich, then again and again a prey of their prosperity, sluggish in breeding, spoiled by rich comfort, so that strangers, Czechs, in it in the middle of the 15th and 19th century and from 1890 all could regain power. But Germanism has always regained power there soon after years, soon after decades; now for the third time in the last six hundred years. Biological and fit reasons had played a decisive role in the loss of German power. Already around 1880 the German bourgeoisie of Budweis had paid steadily declining births; around 1900 it was the same with the German peasantry all around: the one- and two-child system moved in. Around 1920 the Czechs began to follow this "model". In 1937 the then to four fifths Czech district of Budweis had only 11,32 live births on the thousand of its inhabitants (against 24,45 of the Bohemian Forest district Kalsching and 13,35 of the average of the country Bohemia), but 13,33 deaths on the population thousand (the corresponding equals 17,74 and 13,28). Thus, Budweis was a 'deathing district', and it should be noted that the lack of a birth surplus, and indeed the excess of deaths by 2.01 to the thousand, was far more at the expense of Germany than of the Czechs, without having a precise national statistical breakdown. Since history rises from the depths of blood, from that stream of life that sees the sexes becoming and passing away, but continues to pulsate as a bearer of the genetic mass and as a tool of the spirit, this condensing consideration stands here instead of the further accumulation of sober numbers and dry facts and names. Since the days of a George of Podiebrad, who, of course, still calls "Budweis" German in his document of 16 May 1459, Budweis, who had been beat by the councillor and mayor Andreas Puklice von Bzuch, had had to be killed by J. 1467) Czech leadership, like all other royal cities, corresponded with the state offices and the Bohemian Chamber of Czech Republic, but since 13