Acta Musealia

Localization of extinct medieval village Hondorf in Rožnov region

In the above article we would like to attempt to sum up the up-to-date knowledge on vanished village of Hondorf in the Rožnov region. The existence of the village is documented in historical records, which, however, only give information about it perishing before the year 1502. We also assume that Hondorf could be linked to villages Vyšová and Nová Vyšová, mentioned in the year 1348.
The location of the village is associated with forest locality Hondorf, which is situated approximately 5 km north of the centre of the town of Zubří. No archaeological records confirming its existence or exact site were available up to date. Archaeological finds of ceramics discovered during the open cast excavation between the years 2016 and 2018 could thus become the first records of mediaeval settlement in the researched area. The finds were compared to written records and the location of the find was juxtaposed with historical maps; and at the same time, the natural conditions in the locality were taken into account. So far it seems the possible mediaeval settlement could have been concentrated around the mountain saddleback which forms a natural communication route between the north and south sides of the mountain ridge. Several buildings were recorded here on the map from the middle of the 18th century, those, however, disappeared again by the middle of the 19th century.

Keywords: open cast archaeological exploration, finds of ceramics, mediaeval colonisation