English Translation

Egerländer Colonies in Galicia. By Dr. Josef Stark /Czernowitz/./2 Published in the "Unser Egerland" issue No.6 page 76.77 and 78 of J.l909, the sequel in issue No.9 page 97 and 98 of J.1909. The very old people from the Tachauer, Marienbader and Elbogener area will be able to remember the emigration spree in the 40s with the slogan "to Galicia" Many poor families who walked during that time sold out their small property, if they had such a property, loaded the indispensable furniture on a path, anticipated a horse or dogs and left their home. They travelled through Bohemia, Moravia and Western Galicia until they came to the area around Stryj and also around Bolechov, where they wanted to find and found a new home.And they succeeded, only little regretted it; the few remained and settled it badly and quite in the foreign lode.Relations with the old homeland were not entertained,which miracle,if one at home soon forgot about the emigration and if one over in the West now almost nothing at all knows about them and hoofs.- The awakening of the Germans in Galicia in the previous year came, the Völkische Sendboten,advertising forces and economic organizers sought the scattered German villages. . . . so I also came to Pöchersdorf, Machliniec,Novosiolo, Kornelawka and thus to a real piece of Egerland, came to German cultural islands in the bragging Polish and ruthenic seas, on which the also so dear language and dialect of my home village in West Bohemia greeted me. Who can describe this feeling when you walk for weeks paso durd the Podolic regions, spend the night in dirty Jewish taverns, with cloistered Slavic Baiers, who don't understand you, walk in wagons, where furs and fats produce true smelling symphonies, flung around on the usual and unusable "car" with it, flipped over, frozen on it, when you come to Pöchersdorf up in the desert, far away from the train and road, step into the room and see immediately that you are there.