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Kleinmürbisch (Obermürbisch; Hungarian: Felsö-Medves, Kis-Medves; Kroat: Mali Medveš)
Village of 260 residents in the Güssing district.
In 1643, Kleinmürbisch inhabitants Martin GERDONICH, Michael GOMBKÖTKÖ, Mathe and Jurida SZULAROVICH had to come to
Güssing (due to a law suit), in 1658 Michael DRAXLER and Michael KANACZ.
The nobleman Franz KALDY of Felsö Kaldy was a captain in the troops of Count Batthyany 1648-1669, who pledged to him the
village Deutsch Tschantschendorf plus to vineyards in Kleinmürbisch - neighbouring vineyards belonged to Gregor ANYOS,
Michael KOVACS and Philipp EKKER. In 1733 the last of the heirs of one Martin GOGER died, thus a vineyard owned by him
(them) was returned Count Batthyany, who gave it to Michael KIRLHAUSER of Güssing.
The Catholics of Kleinmürbisch always belonged to the St. Nikolaus parish. The first church bell was bought 1776, the
man who rang it was Michael SZABAN, 33 years old and married. No church at that time, people went to the Franziskaner
church in Güssing. The dead were buried in the cemetery of St. Nikolaus until 1822, when Kleinmürbisch got a cemetery of
its own.
Until 1824 the children of Kleinmürbisch went to school in St. Nikolaus. From 1824-44 Johann CSAAR from Rotenturm was
teacher in Kleinmürbisch, he bought house nr. 45, died on 12 Sep 1844 aged 56. His successors were the teachers Viktor
SEMLER (1844- 52; was also Richter 1861-65), Aloysius CSAAR (1852-56, son of Johann; Aloysius died 14 Jul 1856 aged 25),
Michael NEUBAUER (1856-58), Ignatius DERCHSALER (1858-69, from Gross-Kainich in Styria, died 24 Mar 1870 aged 69),
Johann STIPITS (1869-70), Franz FISCHL (1870-72), Franz MÜHL (1873-83), Franz STEINHÖFLER (1883-85), Paulus LOIKITS
(1886-88, died 31 Mar 1888 aged 70), Aloys SALEK, Andreas LOIKITS (1889-93), Johann PLOHOVITS (1894-97), Franz KÖNIG
(1897-98), Karolina KAMEN (1899-1905), Paul JAGENBREIN (1905- 06), Franz ZORN (1906-08), KLANACSKY (a few months),
Sarolta WAGNER (1901- 11), Alexander HOFFMANN (1911-12), Elvira SAILER (1913-22), Hermann ECKER (1922-?; from Inzenhof).
SOURCE for above: Translated excerpt from the series "Das Güssinger Land" by Josef Karl HOMMA in "Volk und
Heimat" 15-16/1956, which is a shortened version of Father Gratian LESER's articles in the "Güssinger Zeitung."
From Reinhard Strobl of Kleinmürbisch 31: Kleinmürbisch at the moment has 260 inhabitants. In 1890 there were
397; in 1923, 359; in 1939, 363; in 1951, 275; and in 1961, 243). Our neighboring (Austrian) villages are Großmürbisch,
Inzenhof, Tschanigraben and Güssing (Langzeil, St. Nikolaus, Glasing). Nearby there are the Hungarian villages of
Raabfidisch, Jakobshof, Ober-Radling, and Unter-Radling.
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