Passeker

A Passeker , in Czech pasekář , was an owner (originally a tenant) / manager of mountain pastures ( Passeken ) in Moravian Wallachia .

A Passeke (from the Slavic pásti = " weiden "; from another source: from the Czech paseka "clearing, clearing") is a pasture - later also a place to live - on the mountains, comparable to an alpine pasture in the Alps.

In the 17th century, the formerly impenetrable forests on the north-eastern border of Moravia were cleared to destroy hiding places for predatory contemporaries. These open spaces were called Jawořinen (Czech: javor "Ahorn [forest]") or Passeken.

The mountain dwellers originally leased such Passeks from the rulers for the purpose of pasturing cattle. Gradually a piece was reclaimed and the mid Passeke a hut ( Chaluppe built) as a residence.

For the right of use, the Passeker had to do compulsory services or pay interest payments to his rule. In 1850 the company was bought out from forced labor.

• One Passeker lived about 1 to 3 leagues away from the other.
• In the village of Malá Bystřice there were about 100 Passeks in 1869.

literature

• The Protestant Church of Austria in the German-Slavic countries; Dr. JAKolatschek, Vienna 1869; P. 119
• The Margraviate of Moravia; G. Wolný, C. Schenkl, Brno 1835, p. 148 FN 11
• Patriotic papers for the Austrian imperial state, Vienna 1815, p. 393