Bach Cities and Bach Places: Janegg Close to Duchzow, Bohemia, Czech Republic..

1  Why Is Janegg One of the Bach Places?..

Janegg is located near Duchzow. And Duchzow is located in Bohemia. In what is now the Czech Republic. Bohemia borders directly on Bavaria in the east and Thuringia in the northeast..

Janegg near Duchzow is definitely not a “Johann Sebastian Bach city”. Not because the population is only 350 souls: Janegg is therefore not a city. But ... Janegg is not a “Johann Sebastian Bach village” either. Johann Sebastian Bach was never in this village, nor did he know of its existence. For a long time, nobody knew that this location was a real Bach place. An important Bach place in the early Bach genealogy..

It was “discovered” ... that Janegg is a Bach village ... only around the year 1950. A small group of Bach researchers discovered that the first Bach, who still plays a role in this family today, emigrated to Bohemia together with his friend Abendroth. We can still read today that Hans-Veit Bach's uncle and father asked for a blessing from the priest of Gräfenroda in the local church of St. Laurentius. Hans-Veit was the son of Hans Bach, who is now associated with the date 1504. A document known among Bach fans as the “Kirchenbuße” (church penance) mentions this exact date. However, the two documented key dates are not necessarily connected ... but they are very likely: 1504 and Hans Bach. Whether Hans Bach was born in 1504 or whether Hans Bach moved to Gräfenroda in 1504 remains a mystery. We only know that this Hans existed. And that the church penance speaks of a “world-famous musical family”. This church penance dates back to before Johann Sebastian Bach wrote down his Origin of the Musical Bachish Family in 1735.

From Moldau, a tiny village right on today's border in the Ore Mountains, both of them - or just Hans Veit - moved further south. To the area near Duchzow. Duchzow is the closest larger municipality to the south of Moldau. Veit Bach was born in Janegg, a suburb of Duchzow. This does not take into account the development of the rest of the Bach family, who had previously emigrated. This is a job for my wife Renate. She will add it to her Johann Sebastian Bach genealogy between 2025 and 2030. As soon as she has the time for it alongside her job. As the author of this website, I am only interested in the “slimmest” lineage of the family before Johann Sebastian Bach: I am only ever interested in the father of the father of the father. And so I arrive at Hans Bach in Gräfenroda. Then it's “forward in time” again. It is also absolutely remarkable that at this early time, the Bachs were not yet a family of musicians. It was only later, much later than 1504, namely around 100 years after the first known emigration, that the family became a family of musicians with the son of Veit Bach the Elder, that is, Veit Bach the Younger in Wechmar. Please continue reading under the advertisement..

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22  Music of Bach and Pictures of Janegg

The video without “distracting” text. Janegg in pictures. Accompanied by a work by Bach..

3  The Bach Village of Janegg near Duchzow: Not Much to Photograph There..

The city limit of Janegg, in Czech of course. In the background the St. Peter and Paul church. Click here for more pictures of Janegg near Duchzow.

4  Information about the Bach Place of Janegg..

Jeníkov u Duchcova. This is the name of the village in Czech. It lies on the upper edge of the Bohemian Basin. Janegg is a community of 900 people right next to the town of Duchzow. Incidentally, these are the names in German. Six kilometers to the east is Teplice.

4 Information about the brook town of Janegg

Jeníkov u Duchcova. This is the name of the village in Czech. It lies on the upper edge of the Bohemian Basin. Janegg is a community of 900 people right next to the town of Duchzow. Incidentally, these are the names in German. Six kilometers to the east is Teplice.

Duchzow is somewhat larger, Teplice even larger than Janegg. And what does that mean? Duchzow is home to 8,700 people, Teplice to 51,000, making all three locations easy to find on Google Maps. Apart from the Church of St. Peter and Paul, there is understandably not much to explore. But that's also “not tragic”. That's why there are also some pictures of the immediate neighborhood in the video. Incidentally, the Bach family had to walk 17 kilometers from Moldova (Moldau / Moldavia). It took them four hours on foot, whereas today it takes thirty minutes by car. An e-bike takes around 50 minutes. It is around a 45-minute walk from Janegg to Duchzow, but only five minutes by car.

A Short Video with Information: The Bach Place of Janegg near Duchzow

There is information here, that is, narrated text and music and film and pictures. Mixed. On the subject of “Bach cities and Bach places” about Janegg and Duchzow. Do you know everything after that? No. But then you could start planning your “XXL Bach Tour”. Enjoy in compact form: the video about Janegg and Duchzow is waiting for you.

6  Where Exactly Is This Bach Place Located?..

Of course, there is a map for every Bach city and Bach village, on which you can easily see where the part of the lives of members of the Bach family that you read about above took place. In Janegg, however, the master himself was ... never at all.

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