Owners over the course of time

The history of the last owners and their fates

In the 17th century, Matouš and Mariana Vicl (or Wiezl in German) owned the farmstead called "Weysovsky". It is after this farmer that the farmstead still bears its name "U Matoušů". In 1682 Jan Krásný bought the whole property, but at the beginning of the 18th century he sold it to Jiří and Anna Pechmann.

The Pechmann family owned the farm until 1800, when Vojtěch Mauer, the Bolevec reeve, bought it and started a demanding reconstruction of the main house, which was completed in 1809. His son, František Mauer, continued the construction works, paying attention mainly to the farm and utility buildings. The third generation of the Mauer family at the farmstead "U Matoušů" were Vojtěch and Kateřina Mauer. They had a daughter Magdalena, who married Vojtěch Rais from Bolevec No. 19. The Rais family took over the farm in 1891. The Rais family had 5 children. One son and four daughters. During the Second World War, the Raises' daughter Barbora Raisova lived at the farm.

Barbora Raisova graduated from the Pedagogical school in Hradec Kralove and subsequently she worked at the kindergarten. In the 1920s she moved to the United States, where she worked at the Czech-English kindergartens in Nebraska and Iowa.

During the Second World War, a motorized unit of the Wehrmacht was stationed at the farmstead. Barbora Raisova secretly listened to foreign radio broadcasting and on 4 May 1945, she heard the news that American soldiers had crossed the Czechoslovak border and were moving towards Pilsen. The Germans were already hastily packing and preparing to leave. Barbora Raisova persuaded Martin Pesek, a local blacksmith, to help her put up the Czechoslovak flag on the linden tree in front of the building. The flag hung there for about three hours before German soldiers noticed it as they were leaving and shot it down. Thanks to this heroic act, the flag in Bolevec was probably the first Czechoslovak flag hoisted on the territory of the town of Pilsen.

Barbora Raisova before the Second World War

After the end of World War II, Marie Skrabkova moved in with her sister. In 1952, the farmstead was taken over by the newly established collective farm and Barbora Raisova, who used to be called Babinka (old grandma), was accused of treason. Originally she should have been sentenced to death, but her sentence was reduced to 18 years of imprisonment. She was eventually released from prison after four years.

Both women were allowed to stay at the farm, but in exchange of this, they had to take care of the pigeons and chickens. Nobody looked after the house and the owners were forced to sell the remaining land to the collective farm in 1957 to be able to finance the urgent repair of the roof. In 1973, Marie Skrabkova died and her son, PhDr. Karel Skrabek, an educated man who was always under surveillance by the Communist Secret Police (StB), moved to the farmstead.

Barbora Raisova died in 1978. Karel Skrabek lived a solitary life at the farm and he passed away in 2002.

Barbora Raisova, nicknamed Babinka (old grandma), in her later age