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Heugraben
Village of 250 residents in the Güssing district.

Situated in a valley south of Bocksdorf.

The 1693-Urbarium for calls the village "Sirovnicza oder [= or] Heygraben", and gives the following information: Richter: ZLOKLIKOVITS Mikula, Geschworene: VUKOVITS Mate, STOLICS Peter; other inhabitants: PILICSARICS Ivan, PILICSARICS Martin, BELLASICS, NOVASEL Mate, CSETICS Gyurika, SZLADOVICS Mate and Miklos, VUKICSEVICS Mate, Mihaly, Ive, Steipan, Jure, Mikula and Peter, KLANACSKI Mate, ORSOLICS Mihol, PISOLICS Ivan, CZVITOSICS Mate and Mihaly, POPOVCSICS Jure, JELENCSICS Peter, SZIDARICS Ivan, POHMANOVICS Mikula and Pal, ZLOKLIKOVICS Peter and Mihaly, BARBARICS Peter and Jure, SZLARARICS Mate, JANTALICS Gregor.

From the Urbarium of 1750: Richter: VUKISOVICH Jure, Geschworene: SZOKLOVICH Ive, VUKISOVICH Miko and Mikula, ORSOLICH Mathe; families: VUKISOVICS (15), ORSOLICH (4), SLOKLIKOVICH (4), BARBARICS (4), PLASKOVICH (2), BESLANOVICH, KOMANOVICH.

Number of inhabitants: 268 in 1812, 315 in 1832, 370 in 1850, 595 in 1930.

24 casualties in WW I.

About 30 emigrants to America (until 1930); in 1930 about 100 inhabitants work in Vienna and Lower Austria.

Heugraben has always been a part of Bocksdorf parish. A wooden chapel (Trinity) built in 1724, the church was built in 1834.

Teachers: ca. 1850-1870 Georg WUKISEVITS, 1871-87 Johan ILLETITS, 1887-1900 Stefan ZADROVITS, 1900-1909 Josef BENTSITS, 1909-13 Julius SZENTGYÖRGYI, 1913-15 Josef BRESITS, 1915-17 Stefanie FUX, 1917-30 Hermine SCHMAL.

Source: Dr. Josef Loibersbeck's series "Um den Eisenberg", published in "Volk und Heimat" 1-2/1958; summarized and translated by Albert Schuch 10 Nov 1999

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