History

First written record of Kněžice.

Already in the 17th century the village had barely 10 homesteads and hardly grew after that. Besides farming, linen yarn was spun here at home in the 18th century.

Until the mid-19th century Kněžice was an independent village with its own reeve; it was then joined to Hořejší Vrchlabí.

Kněžice had 95 inhabitants in 15 houses and a school with 23 pupils. Most of them were Germans, only 6 % Czechs. In German the village was called Schreibendorf – according to legend after a scribe (Schreiber in German), perhaps one serving the manor, who is said to have lived here at a time when literacy was not yet common among villagers.

Today’s house no. 5 (still no. 4 in 1945) belonged to the farmer Adalbert Möhwald and his family. The house itself is older, but there was no inn in it yet. Shortly before the war, Anton Tauchmann ran an inn at no. 45, and Fink’s country inn at today’s no. 24 was also popular.

Like most inhabitants of Schreibendorf, the Möhwalds were expelled after the war. The house passed to the Honc family. When the elderly Honcs died, nobody lived here for years…

The cottage was bought by the Matucha family, who ran it as a guesthouse and inn.

A new chapter is being written by the Gerstman family, who fulfilled their dream here and created a country inn with a guesthouse. We keep building and improving our services for you.