parish schematism in Hniezdne, Stará Ľubovňa District

TomaszSwigut

Hi, I am trying to find birth record of a person who claims birth in Hniezdne, Stará Ľubovňa District in 1860s. He does not appear in scans from Roman-Catholic parish in Hniezdne that are available in Family Search scans. Would someone knowledgable advise what other denominations and parishes existed nearby. I also checked Nižné Ružbachy, Podolínec and Kolačkov with no success.

Tomek

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Dvorzsák's gazetteer (https://web.archive.org/web/20160331234421/http://www.radixhub.com/radixhub/gazetteers/1877/szepes.htm) says Gnézda had a Roman Catholic church locally. It also says that the 47 Greek Catholic residents were recorded in Kamjonka, the 5 Lutherans in Toporcz, and the 49 Jewish residents in Ó-Lubló.

Figuring out a date for Dvorzsák's gazetteer is difficult: the Pécs University digital library version (https://digitalia.lib.pte.hu/hu/pub/dvorzsak-janos-magyarorszag-helysegnevtara-budapest-verlad-1882-1426) gives a publication date of 1882, and the foreword gives the usually-cited 1877 date, but as far as I can tell, only the introductory matter is from the earlier edition: the actual content pages exactly match the ones available as a PDF from the Hungarian Electronic Library (https://mek.oszk.hu/09000/09085/), which is identified in the foreword as the 1893 edition, revised with updated numbers from the 1891 census. Luckily, the page numbers from the Radixhub table are correct for either one, greatly simplifying the finding of the right entry.

TomaszSwigut

Thank you Julia, this is helpful. If I may ask one more question, Podolinec was supposed to have a large German population, presumably Lutherans - do you know where the records may be located?

Tomek

Julia Szent-Györgyi

For Podolin [Podolínec], Dvorzsák reports 1446 RC recorded locally, 28 GC recorded in Kamjonka [Kövesfalva, Kamienka], 40 Izr. recorded in Ó-Lubló [Stará Ľubovňa], and 25 Lutherans, recording location unknown. Poprádvölgy ["Poprád valley"] district had Lutheran churches in Holló-Lomnicz [Holumnica], Kis-Lomnicz [Lomnička], Toporcz [Toporec], and Szepes-Tótfalu [Slovenská Ves], plus there was one place in the district (Keresztfalu [Krížová Ves]) whose hundred-odd Lutherans were recorded in Szepes-Béla [Spišská Belá].

The 1913 gazetteer is post-civil registration, so it doesn't answer "where was the church?", but it does indicate ethnicities/languages. For Podolin, it says "n., t., m.," meaning that it had a mixture of German [német], Slovak [tót], and Hungarian [magyar] speakers, but no one group predominated. (The gazetteer indicated majority languages/ethnicities with capital letters.)

TomaszSwigut

awesome, thanks!