Certified as a master butcher, he was already operating a butcher’s shop at No. Anna Engelhardt, widow of Josef Engelhardt, and began running it as a source of income to supplement that from his butcher’s trade. In the spring of 1841 Antonín’s father František rented the tavern from Mrs. 12, where Antonín Dvořák was born, housed a tavern called by the locals Engelhardt’s Inn. Several peasant cottagers, orchard keepers, a few small-scale artisans and craftsmen, farm labourers working for the Lobkowicz family, and the teacher at the local school-all of these rounded out the picture of the village’s everyday life.īuilding No. The Nelahozeves castle served as headquarters for economic management of the family property and also as the office of an official of the nobility having judicial authority.īesides the Lobkowicz farm operations, Nelahozeves had a brewery, a distillery, naturally a mill and a smith’s shop, a ferry across the Vltava (Moldau) River, and at the edge of the village a gamekeeper’s lodge, a sheep shed, and a knacker’s yard. It was an administrative centre for a domain of the Lobkowicz family, which had its seat at the ducal castle in Roudnice nad Labem. In the year when Antonín was born Nelahozeves consisted of 46 buildings and had 438 permanent inhabitants. Not until sixteen years later was an independent parish established at Nelahozeves, whereupon Father Němec became the first Nelahozeves parish priest. Andrew was a subsidiary church administered by the parish office in nearby Minice. Andrew just across the road, in the presence of his patente as well as godparents František Christoph (the village miller) and Aloisie Trusková ( wife of the village cooper ), and he received the name Antonín.
The following day he was baptised by Fater Jan Němec in the Church of St. 12 in Nelahozeves, a little boy came into world – the first child of František and Anna Dvořák. On Wednesday, 8 September 1841 in the building bearing No. FAMOUS NATIVE SON OF THE VILLAGE OF NELAHOZEVES
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