German Settlers in Jablonca

Keiser is a German name, ethnically. There was a period in the history of the Jablonca when many German settlers settled along with Goral Poles, Ruthenians, Jewish and Slovakian families in Jablonca. Of course, many intermarried into Magyar families. Colonization of abandoned villages in Northern Hungary was very popular as many Germans were invited to settle there by the Empress of Austria, Maria Theresia. After many years, they were not considered foreigners. There is one Keiser family that settled in Jablonca many years before they were recorded in the 1869 census. There was no Lutheran church so they went to the Catholic church or converted to the Calvinist church eventually.

Some of the other ethnic German names in Jablonca recorded in the 1869 census were Gretzmeyer, Keller, Herczog, Beller, Krisoff and Zeman.