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Mühlgraben
Village of 440 residents in the Jennersdorf district.

Southeast of Graz, Styria, just west of Minihof-Liebau. It is almost on the border with Styria.

A small farming community dating from 1387 when it was called Mechnuk, 1555-Milihgrom, 1698-Milgrom and 1751-Müllgraben. A refuge for Lutheran refugees from Styria in the 1600's. Still an important Lutheran congregation.

It is in the Bezirk (district) of Jennersdorf since 1921 (Szt. Gotthard prior to that), has about 437 inhabitants and is therefore the smallest community in the district.

I (Gerry Berghold) am particularly interested in it because some Bergholds and Kornheisels lived there in the 1800's. I haven't linked to them as yet since my people came from Poppendorf-Heiligenkreuz a little further north.

People went to church in Neuhaus am Klausenbach (Hungarian Dobra). The civil office (Gemeindeamt) is also located there. The church records 1828-1896 are available from FamilySearch as microfilm numbers 0700747 (Lutheran) and 0700745-746 (Catholic) and 0700622-626 (civil records 1895-1920).

I have a small cookbook recently published by the women of Mühlgraben, "Der Elternverein".

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