Title
   Heimatkundliche CD zum Egerland
   (Local Historical CD of the Egerland)

   Note:
   The Egerland is a section of West Bohemia, today the most
   western part of the Czech Republic. It was once included in
   all the borderlands of Bohemia that were called Sudetenland
   because the population was over 95% German-speaking.
   The Egerland got its name from the City of Eger.

Preparation, Coding, Supply and Copyright
   Ewald Keil, Asternweg 13, 70794 Filderstadt, Germany.

ISBN
   (n/a)

Medium
   1 CD-ROM (650 MB, in plastic container)

Contents

   A. Three books

      1. Gedenkbuch der Gemeinde Schönau
         (Chronicle of the Community of Schönau)

      2. Zur Geschichte der Bauernhöfe und Familien auf den
         Dörfern der ehemaligen Stift Tepler Herrschaft.
         Die Dörfer des Witschiner Kirchspiels
         (On the History of Farmsteads and Families in the
         Villages within the Former Dominion of the Monastery of
         Tepl. The Villages of parish Witschin)

      3. Sudetendeutsches Ortsnamenverzeichnis
         (Sudeten German Gazetteer)

      Enhanced with complementary text, graphics, and audio
      samples.
      HTML format ready to view and print from any web browser.
      It is not necessary to be on line to use the CD.
      The CD's HTML format enables the user to page forward and
      backward, to display referenced pages, to jump directly to
      the table of contents, or to jump from the table of
      contents to any page listed there, with a single click of
      the mouse.

   B. A user-friendly search program

      Understanding German and English, dedicated for this CD,
      able to search on each word (e.g. a name) or number (e.g.
      a year or house number), or even a part of each word or
      number, within each of the three books.
      When you want to search for a word containing German
      special characters, you will have to specify these
      characters as written in the book. The CD includes simple
      instructions that tell the user how to type the German
      special characters if needed for a search word.
      The program may be used under native DOS, and also in the
      DOS emulation ("DOS window") of other operating systems
      (e.g. under Windows3/95/98/NT/...).

Cost of the CD  (in Euro, as of July 2007)
   -  Subject to change without notice.
   -  Advance payment.
   -  VAT n/a.
   CD:        € 25.--
   Shipping:
              &euro:  2.--  (within Germany)
              (abroad or air mail may result
               a lot higher!)

Availability
   Since 2000.

Modifications and Additions to the CD
   All relevant modifications and additions to the CD since its
   first edition are documented on the following pages:
     *  On the Internet (World-Wide Web), that means always newest level:

          -  http://www.ewald-keil.de/ecd-k01.htm.
          -  There is also a corresponding German page.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
All texts on the CD are exclusively in German.
No English translation available, so far.


1. Gedenkbuch der Gemeinde Schönau
   (Chronicle of the Community of Schönau)

A complete chronicle of Schönau, a village in the Luditz
district in the Egerland. The scope of history covered reaches
from pre-history when the area was first settled up to 1939. A
chronicler began the book in 1926 to commemorate Schönau's 600th
anniversary. After 1931 a new chronicler kept the record until
1939.

The original hand-written chronicle includes approx. 400 pages
(16.5" x 11.6") in "Kurrent" (the old German hand-writing), plus
about 50 more pages containing photos, drawings, and original
documents.

The reader of the CD has available all of the book's pages in two
qualities:
 (1) graphically (like photocopies), to view and print the
     original hand-writing, photos, and documents,
 (2) without copies of the photos, but all text transcribed into
     modern print fonts, in order to enable younger and future
     generations to understand the book.

Complementary pages include: a table of contents (missing in the
original book), a small glossary, instruction to find the
location and present roads to Schönau, indexes of church
registers and land title registers, audio examples of dialect
spoken with the "flavor of Schönau", some of which quote
passages of the book, and other information.

You may jump from the graphic ("photocopy") pages to the
transcribed text pages, and back, by mouse-click.


2. Zur Geschichte der Bauernhöfe und Familien auf den Dörfern der
   ehemaligen Stift Tepler Herrschaft.
   Die Dörfer des Witschiner Kirchspiels
   (On the History of Farmsteads and Families in the Villages
   Within the Former Dominion of the Monastery of Tepl.
   The Villages of parish Witschin)
   By Dr. Benedikt Brandl, 1925.

This out-of-print book was published as pages 359-405 of a larger
commemorative work.

The copy is published on this CD with permission from the Tepl
Monastery.

The CD version has added enhancements to the original: a table of
contents, instruction to find the location and present roads to
Witschin, the complete index of the Witschin parish church
registers, and information about the Tepl Monastery.

This book is a significant source for historical and
genealogical data about Witschin and its vicinity. It includes
the names of each succeeding landholder or owner of a farmstead
or house in the parish of Witschin, as far back as records are
available. It also contains other information of particular
interest to genealogists.


3. Sudetendeutsches Ortsnamenverzeichnis
   (Sudeten German Gazetteer)
   2nd. edition, 1987.

More than 370 pages, plus map appendix (5 original maps).

The second edition of the book is sold out, and there are no
plans to publish it in hard copy again.

The CD copy is published with permission of the Sudeten Archive,
Munich.

Among all gazetteers, only the "Sudetendeutsches
Ortsnamenverzeichnis" provides the exact "transition rules" for
the transition from the pre-1938 administrative organization
formed by political and judicial districts ("Politische Bezirke"
und "Gerichtsbezirke") into the subsequent administrative
organization formed by city and rural districts ("Stadtkreise und
Landkreise") after 1938.

Details in individual entries include both the German and Czech
names and descriptions of the "Politische" and "Gerichtsbezirke",
of the  "Reichsgaue", "Regierungsbezirke" and "Kreise".
Individual places (cities, towns and villages) are listed with
both Czech and German names.  The entries include places that
have disappeared since 1945 as well as places that still exist,
along with some details (surface and inhabitants) about each
place at different points in time.

The CD version provides a copy of one of the maps with a grid
overlay that matches grid coordinates given in a corresponding
list of names of "Politische Bezirke" (often identical with the
names of a subsequent "Kreis"). The grid simplifies locating each
district on the map, improving somewhat on the original.