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Kobleny and Marocz in Baranya

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Kobleny and Marocz in Baranya

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 9:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
The following text for the church in Köblény was found in the Catholic diocesan directory of 1874-1880 for Funfkirchen/Pecs. The entire text can be found in Latin online here -
http://kt.lib.pte.hu/cgi-bin/kt.cgi?konyvtar/kt03093002/tart...
Translation from the Latin was provided by an online service from England called Classical Turns. I hope this information will be helpful to others.

Joseph Martin
Romeoville, Illinois
(IllinoisGenie(at)gmail(dot)com

In the urbarium of the year 1561 of villages that contributed to the manor, ‘Kewbly’ (Köblény) can be seen, along with the additions of Christopher Orzag. The judges Johann Kellews, Peter Bekw and Matthew Warga asserted that there were 31 resident colonists and 11 tenant farmers. They paid nothing towards the manor. They paid the royal estate fee of the year 1559, i.e. 18 [denarii], with the addition of 20 denarii from the gates.

After the departure of the Turks from these parts, the first mention made of the villages of Köblény and Marócz is made in the year 1733, in which year the parish of Bikal was re-established; then to this newly erected parish the sister churches in the villages of Szalatnak (the property of Köblény that had recently been plundered) and of Marócz were added. In addition, the following is written: the deserted church in the property of Köblény belonged to Josef Petrovsky, the Viscount of his County. This [church] had been built long ago from stone and cement, was of great size, and its sanctuary still survived intact, although the tower had fallen down, and in other respects it was of ample construction; the body of the church had collapsed, save for one side wall on the northern side.

In the year 1742 the filial town for Bikal was Köblény about which there is the following note: some notable ruins survive of a walled church outside the village, where sometimes services are held for the devotion of the people. They have a bell joined to the village that has been blessed; there are 27 married couples, but the number of those receiving confession is unclear. – In the filial town of Marócz they have a church which has been built out of wood on top of the ancient stones and rubble of a church, which is still visible in a small section, and it is dedicated to St. Emeric; along with the wooden altar, a portable altar has been placed upon the altar table. These two villages recognized the widow of the Petrovszky family as lady of the land [domina terrestris].

Of the church that was destroyed in Köblény in the year 1756, almost the same information as above is reported; for that time 48 married couples, 159 people receiving confession and about 200 souls in total were counted. In Marócz, a church is also said to have been built in earlier years, to which is added the following: in it there is a wooden altar, of which an icon of the said Saint forms the principal part, and a good portable altar is placed upon the wooden table, covered with the three cloths described above. There is also some other necessary equipment for celebrating the sacrifice of mass, which is in a good and pure state. In that same year there were 30 married couples, 108 confessions, and 162 souls in total. The schoolmaster in Marócz (whose name is not stated) is praised, a man whose self-sufficiency and assiduity in educating boys was obvious from the examination of the boys carried out on that occasion.

Later, when the property of Szalatnak, which has its own curate, became more coordinated, Köblény was twinned to this parish. Although the Petrovszky family, especially Johann and Sigmund Petrovszky, elevated the church in Köblény and their property to a parish in the year 1799, nevertheless the priest did not establish his seat there until the end of the year 1802, on account of the loss of his house. Therefore the first priest of this place was Ladislav Szucs, on 10 June 1799, who gave his oath not as the priest of Köblény but of Szalatnak. The church in Köblény, dedicated to the honor of All Saints, lies in an elevated position above the parish garden, is 12 fathoms long and 5 wide. – In the filial town of Marócz, a church was built upon ancient rubble in the year 1824, which was lengthened and restored, and it is 12 fathoms in length, 3 and five sixths in breadth. – The patron of this parish is free Baron Hannibal Puchner.


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