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

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