Long before the Highholders came to Oshkosh, they lived along the border between Bavaria and Bohemia. Some of them owned property in both countries. According to these maps, the majority of Oshkosh Highholders lived within a 9 kilometer square area of one another. When you consider that 9 km is approx. 5 miles, the distance between the Highholders was not great. Culturally, for the most part, the Highholders were Bavarians, but it cannot be denied that some of the Highholders intermarried with the local Czech population, in most of these cases the German culture usually prevailed.
Strangely enough, many people who were neighbors in the old country, became neighbors here in Oshkosh, ie, on the map of Kushwarda, it shows, Jungwirths living
next door to Paulicks and Langs, and on 10th Ave, where I grew up, this was exactly the same situation. Even stranger is the fact, that a Roman Catholic Saint came from this
area, and most of the Highholders do not even know this. St. John Newman grew up near the town of Prachtiz, the son of a Bavarian father and a Czech mother. Later he came to America, to become a Priest, and worked with Immigrant families on the East Coast.
On the Mountain Dreisessel, is a small chapel which he built, and where he would go to meditate and pray.
