History of villages: Křesetice, Bohemia

Křesetice is located in Kutná Hora district in the Central Bohemia region, about four kilometers south from Kutná Hora. It's placed in the valley of Křenovka creek surrounded by fields. Its name comes from the name of laird Křesata - it meant his village, village of his serfs.
 

 Křesetice location in the Czech Republic (Source: Mapy.cz)

The first written note about the village comes from 1352, when it was mentioned among villages belonging to the Prague episcopate. However, gothic church of St. Margarethe was built before this year and it's sure the village was founded in 6th century - there are archeological excavations pointing to this fact.

Tourist map of Křesetice (Source: Mapy.cz)

Křesetice were a center of a domain. Local fortress was rebuilt to a chateau in 17th century. It was owned by Jesuits and when this order was disbanded during the reign of Josef II., the domain fell on the church foundation which was crerated to support public needs. Then the domain was sold in 1824 to Jan František Svoboda, owner of a publishing house.

Local people worked maily in agricultue in the past. Most of them were farmers or were working on fields, some of them were craftsmen. There were also people administering the domain and its properties, such as steward, clerks, caretakers and so on. Many people left to Kutná Hora and Prague in 2nd half of 19th century and many people work in Kutná Hora or Kolín today.

Here is information from the censuses about the number of inhabitants and houses during the years:

	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1930	1950	1961	1970	1980	1991	2001
People	771	765	773	772	724	692	699	557	528	492	465	429	439
Houses	121	124	128	127	129	127	149	156	145	139	133	147	178

Source: Statistic book called "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky" (Historical lexicon of the Czech Republic villages)

Map from 1st military mapping (1780-1784, source Oldmaps.geolab.cz).

Genealogical information

Křesetice belongs under Bykáň parish which is under administration of SRA Prague. Parish books are available online: http://ebadatelna.soapraha.cz, births from 1664 to 1910, marriages from 1663 to 1898 and deaths from 1697 to 1898. Older records for Dehtáře are also available in the Kutná Hora parish

Surnames in Křesetice between 1784 and 1800 (excerpt from the Křesetice birth registry):Adamec, Bačkora, Beneš, Bělský, Brodský, Buňata, Cihlář, Čech, Čermák, Černík, Černý, Fiala, Fiedler, Firšt, Fofanka, Hadrava, Havel, Hillas, Horák, Houdek, Hovorka, Hronek, Jiráň, Jiruš, Karásek, Klečák, Kleinhampl, Klekáč, Komárek, Komberec, Kopp, Košťál, Kottowitz, Koucký, Kratina, Kratochvíl, Krejča, Krejčí, Kroupa, Krupička, Kubinský, Kužel, Lang, Lorenc, Macháček, Marek, Mikšík, Müller (Miller), Němec, Němeček, Ohlídka, Oliva, Ousta, Pabiján, Paštika, Patočka, Pavoda, Pokorný, Pokřikovský, Prášil, Ressler (Rössler), Růžička, Sadil, Sadílek, Sagel, Schiffer, Schneiderwind, Skoupý, Sláma, Snížek, Sochůrek, Stehlík, Sýkora, Šimáček, Šletera, Šťástka, Šterc, Štěpán, Trnka, Trutschmann, Vašátko, Viktora, Vodička, Volný, Vykřikovský, Weigl, Zelený, Zinck (Zynk, Zinek, Zynek), Zoufalý, Zvoník.