AUSTRIA

THE AUSTRIAN JUCH CONNECTION

EUOPEAN MIGRATION

A paper by Armando Juch

August 2001

2000 years ago, the population was celtic and roman. At about 600 people of slavonic origin settled there. About 200 years later, the german settlement and dominion started. From about 1550 to 1600 most of the carinthian people in the cities where protestants (Martin Luther). At 1600 the austrian emperor ordered them to became catholics or to leave the country. Many people went to Germany at this time. Maybe there was also a brother of my ancestors among them, but it is not easy to get this information. Also the opposite is possible: in the 16th and 17th century many persons came from Germany to work for mining companies in Carinthia. They were also protestants.

At the council of Trient (1545 -) the decision was made, to register all the births, marriages and deaths by the churches. The southern part of carinthia belonged to the church distict of aquilea and the bishop visited the carintian churches rather seldom. So our books started later. Some books of the church at Kappel, where Martin Juch lived, were damaged by water and it is not possible for me to take a look at them. I found several entries of the name Juch in the Carinthian archive (inventories of bequeathments), but I didn't find a connection to Martin Juch. There was only a remark, that the sister of a certain Klemens Juch had the permisson to live in his house. A Klemens Juch lived in Göriach (only 8 km from Hundsdorf, where Martin Juch lived) and died in 1734 at the age of about 60 years. Obviously he had no children, so he could be an uncle of Martin. Maybe, I will find his birth entry (about 1670), then I should also be able to find the birth entry of Martin Juch's father. But this is depending on, where he was born. The books of some churches are reaching back to 1600.

FERLACH, Austria

Ferlach, Carinthia, Austria, is a town of 8000 inhabitants about 10 km to Slovenia and 50 km to Italy. In this area there are many families with the surname JUCH. Armando JUCH, who lives in Ferlach, reports that the JUCH surname is seldom in other parts of Austria. Klagenfurt, Austria, the capital city of Carinthia, has 90,000 citizens with the telephone book listing five JUCH families.

The ancestors of Armando Juch, his sons Andreas and Markus (only the "Juch - tree")
Martin Juch (&Helena) 1716 - 1789: lived in Hundsdorf Stephan Juch (&Katharina Doujak) ~1750 - 1820: born in Hundsdorf, went to Seidolach (Nr. 14, "Mesnerkeusche"), where he lived and worked as a potter and sacristan at the church in Seidolach. Katharina was born in St. Margarethen in 1749 and died in 1816 Valentin Juch (& Maria Sorgo) 1786 - 1857: born in Seidolach, his father bought him a house in Gotschuchen ("Fermkeusche") Valentin Juch (& Barbara Skant) 1810 - 1900: lived in Gotschuchen, his wife was born 1812 in Gallizien. Matthias Juch (& Katharina Petermann) 1856 - 1939: born in Gotschuchen (Nr. 13, "Fermkeusche"), later he became the owner of the house "Pinterkeusche" (Nr. 11) near it. He worked as a master joiner. Katharina Petermann was born 1859 in Tschedram. Jakob Juch (& Justina Kescher) 1887 - 1934: born in Gotschuchen ("Pinterkeusche"), went to Seidolach (Nr. 16) and got married 1912. Like his father he worked as a master joiner. His wife was born in Hintergupf in 1892 and died 1931.	ARROWS & DATES INDICATE THE MIGRATION OF JUCH'S IN THIS AREA
Jakob Juch (&Rina Romagna) *1929: born in Seidolach, went to Ferlach in 1943 to start his education as a toolmaker. He worked also in Switzerland (1953-1956), where he met Rina (*1929 in Zortea, Trento, Italy), went back to Ferlach and got married there in 1957. Armando Juch (&Renate Steidl) *1957: born in Klagenfurt, studied in Graz (Master of Science - Industrial Engineering), worked in Munich (1984-90, BMW), where he met Renate (*1956 in Munich, Bavaria - her parents came from Egerland, today Chech-Republic) and got married there in 1984. Since 1990 again in Ferlach Andreas Juch *1986 Munich, Markus Juch *1988 Munich
ARROWS & DATES INDICATE THE MIGRATION OF JUCH'S IN THIS AREA

Further, Armando states that "some people say, that the name Juch has sources in the slovenian language (Jug means "South"). In the southern part of Carinthia, some time ago (in the 19^th century) the german language was not spoken by many persons. Most people spoke a slovenian dialect also my ancestors". Armando also states that " Maybe the Juch-family came from central-Germany to us some hundred years ago (also some people who made weapons for hunting still a famous industry in Ferlach settled down in the 16th century and came from the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) and now there is a company "Gottfried Juch" in Ferlach producing weapons for hunting) or maybe a person named Juch emigrated to Germany some hundred years ago. Although Mr. Gottfried Juch is deceased, his gun factory remains in business and has a home page at:

http://www.ferlacherjagdwaffen.at/juch/

(This page is written in German)

 Armando and family have a Web Page that everyone is encouraged to visit at:

http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/PetsPl/a_juch/

(This Web Page is written in German)

Some places, where Armando's Juch families lived

(This Web Page is written in English)

The following biography is about the famous Emma JUCH, born in Austria

EMMA JUCH

1865-1939

In Vienna is born Emma Antonia Johanna Juch on 4 Jul 1865 as a daughter of Justin Juch and Augusta Hahn. She died in New York on 6 Mar 1939 her profession opera singer by the Emma Juch English Grand Opera Company. She married on 25 Jun 1894 (she divorced in July 1911) with Francis Lewis Wellman district attorney. The parents of Emma Juch came from Austria. They went to America when Emma was 2 years old.

Emma Antonia Johanna Juch studied 3 years with Murio-Celli: debut in concert Chickering Hall; operatic debut in Her Majesty's Grand Italian Opera in London (june 1883) as Felina in Mignon, and later sang during 3 seasons under Col.Mapleson in soprano roles; sang alternate nights with Nilssan as Elsa in Lohengrin under management of Theodore Thomas in US; prima donna Am.Opera Co. 3 seasons; sang in festivals, orchestral symphnie concerts and in Emma Juch English Grand Opera.

Source: "Who was Who in America. Vol.I sub voce Juch Östereiches Biographisches

Lexion 1815-1950 Gratz & Köln Band 3 1965 sub voce Juch Emma Antonia Johanna

In a Special Issue of "Opera News", published by The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc., New York in 1966 her picture appeared plus the following:

"The Vienna-born American Emma Juch entered the arena with an aggregation largely made up of the defunct National (originally American) Opera Company, with which she had toured during its valiant existence. In 1885 Theodore Thomas had once again put aside his symphonic ambitions for the lyric stage. His opera company, unfortunately, lasted barely three years in spite of excellent productions. Juch sang six roles 164 times: Pamina (she had previously been praised for her Queen of the Night in the same opera), Elsa, Euridice, Chrysa (in Rubinstein's Nero, an American premiere), Marguerite and Senta, which she learned practically overnight. Her Elsa was warmly admired, as well as her courage in finishing the part one night at the Metropolitan (where the National Company was playing) after having been struck by a falling weight.

Juch's own company possessed one distinction apart from most of those directed by her sister artists: it was managed not by the indefatigable C.D. Hess but by Charles E. Locke, who had piloted the National. Juch had Felix Jaeger for conductor (and his wife for contralto) in October 1889; both had disappeared a month later, and the experienced Adolf Neuendorff, who had come closest to the Metropolitan by conducting its stepchild German tour in 1885-86, took over. Juch continued to sing in concert after she relinquished her opera company, and lived to the ripe old age of seventy-eight."

Descendants of Justin Juch

1 Justin Juch

+Augusta Hahn

2 Emma Antonia Johanna Juch 1865 - 1939

+Francis Lewis Wellman

EMMA JUCH

1865-1939

EMMA JUCH

Circa 1900?

This photo is on "vintage actress tobacco cards" by LORILLARD'S TIGER FINE CUT (tobacco)

being offered for sale on ebay.

This is an old score from Der Freischutz by C. M. von Weber as produced by the Emma Juch Grand English Opera, Charles Locke, Director. There is no copyright date in this small paper back score, however there is a full page testimonial in the inside front cover for Steinway Pianos, indicating awards for superior product in London 1885, Sydney 1875, Philadelphia 1876, Sweden 1868, Paris, 1867, London 1862. The score in English was published by Charles Tretbar, Steinway Hall, New York. Emma Juch was a famous opera soprano of the late 1800's She was born in the 1860's and made her operatic debut in 1883. She formed her own touring opera company in the late 1880's and brought opera to the midwest and Western cities with her company that toured by rail and sang their operas in English so that they could be understood by all. This small 6 1/2 by 9 inch booklet has the three act opera of Der Freischutz (The Freeshooter). The inside pages are all present and intact but the cover has become detached. The pages are tightly stapled. The pages are brown but in good condition. The cover is worn and the spine is chipped at the top and bottom. The interior back cover has testimonial letters about the Steinway pianos from Franz Liszt, Anton Rubenstein and Theodore Thomas. All are dated in the 1870's. This is a great piece of music history from the late 1800's.

The following article regarding Emma Juch is provided here for convienence. The original version is at

< http://operapronto.home.comcast.net/historyfiles/history5.html>

Emma Juch

by Stephen E. Busch
Professor Emeritus of Music, Colorado State University

Emma Juch (1863-1939) grew up in a family of modest wealth. Her father was Justin Juch, an Austrian by birth, and her mother, Augusta Hahn Juch, was of "French-Hanoverian" birth, both naturalized Americans at Emma's birth on July 4, 1863, in Vienna. Unlike the early life of Emma Abbott, Emma Juch's story is not one of rags-to-riches but, perhaps, comfort to riches. Her father, described as a "musician, artist and inventor" in one source and a "music professor" in another, at first did not want her to pursue a professional singer's life. From about 14 to 16 years of age she studied voice with Madam Murio-Celli without her father's knowledge. But he did attend what has been called her debut performance in 1879 in Chickering Hall, New York, in a Pupil's Concert. Her father, supposedly sitting in the front row, was amazed at her singing and from then on encouraged her musical studies. When but 18 years old (1881) Col. Henry Mapleson, the indefatigable opera impresario, engaged her for his operatic season at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. There she made her operatic debut as Filina in Thomas' Mignon and sang there for three years (seasons) with Mapleson, appearing as Leonora in Il Trovatore, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Valentine in Les Huguenots, Queen of the Night and Pamina in The Magic Flute, Isabella in Robert le Diable, Violetta in La Traviata, and the title roles of Martha and Aida. She received accolades from the British audiences, and Mapleson knew that he had a winner. In Mapleson's off-season in London, Juch returned to America and made her operatic debut at the old Academy of Music, 14th Street and Irving Place, on October 21, 1881, again singing Filina, and again receiving great ovations. Oscar Thompson, in his The American Singer, relates: "Miss Juch's voice was one of unusually lovely quality and extraordinary purity. Mistress of four languages, her singing in English was much commended for its clarity. When Walter Damrosch appeared at the Metropolitan in March, 1935, to celebrate his fiftieth anniversary as a conductor and presented the final act of Die Meistersinger, translated by himself [into English], Miss Juch wrote to congratulate him upon the excellence of his translation, Dr. Damrosch replied that no one was better fitted to judge, as she had employed the purest English diction in her singing that he had ever heard." At the end of her third year with Mapleson, Juch declined to renew her contract with him, but in 1885 opted to sign on with the American Opera Company, Theodore Thomas as conductor. William Steinway had introduced her to Thomas. At the same time, Leopold Damrosch was seeking her for the Metropolitan Opera Company, but with Thomas she got to share lead roles with Nilsson and Materna, long established stars. In three years with Thomas, which included singing alternate nights with Nilsson as Elsa in Lohengrin, she sang a total of 164 performances that included Magic Flute, Lohengrin, The Flying Dutchman, Orpheus, Rubinstein's Nero and Faust. By the age of 25 Emma was an experienced opera performer and was convinced that singing opera in English was the future of opera in America. Besides her opera performances, she sang many concerts with orchestras in different cities and with large choral societies throughout the country. All her singing was in English. In late June, 1888, she sailed for Europe on the Umbria "to enjoy a well-earned season of rest and recreation." She told a reporter: "I shall return in September and my time is fully taken with concerts to the first of the year, and includes a trip in the fall to the Pacific coast. I enjoy singing in opera, and the audiences have seemed pleased . . ." Juch traveled the rails considerably before she formed her own opera company. She did perform on the west coast as she had told reporters she would before her trip to Europe in 1888; she was the head-liner in a concert that included Jessie Bartlett-Davies and Mathilda Phillips, both nationally known. This concert group probably gave programs in Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, too, but this writer has no record to that effect. Both cities, or at least one of them, were frequently booked for concerts by performers traveling through the west to provide a quiet rest from the long train ride and some income to cover expenses. Perhaps when she was in Europe Emma made the decision to form her own opera company. The New York Times (September 1, 1889) told of her company's organization, giving singers' names and naming the operas in its repertoire. Less than two months later the Emma Juch Grand English Opera Company gave its premiere performance at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on October 20, presenting Faust with a relatively young cast but which, nonetheless, had considerable operatic experience. Many of them would become famous singers including Charles Hedmondt, Alonzo Stoddard, Franz Vetta and Clara Jaeger. The Times reviewer mentioned Hedmondt, Stoddard and Vetta as "artists of exceptional strength." That writer also noted that "for the first time in the history of opera in this country, a company [has been formed] nearly all of whom are American born." The reviewer had nothing but praise for Juch: "The performance of Miss Juch was of a kind to recall the greatest artists who have essayed Marguerite. In addition to a lovely voice of very even register, the young lady now has reached a maturity of musical and dramatic conception which places her in the very first rank of artists." The orchestra was led by Adolph Neuendorff, a native of Hamburg, Germany, who came to New York with his parents in 1854. He was a violinist, pianist and organist and had studied music theory and composition before he began a career as a choral and orchestra conductor. He had 27 years of conducting experience, including much opera, before leading Juch's orchestra in her Philadelphia premiere. He continued as her conductor for the company's approximately four-year existence. Emma made excellent choices for her musical colleagues. (go to top)

Her company's first Denver appearance was a one-week run at the new Metropolitan Theatre in late March, 1890 and was noted for its "very brilliant cast." The month before Denver opera lovers had heard Patti, Albani and Nordica, three world class singers, also at the Metropolitan, so the "very brilliant cast" appears to be especially praiseworthy. The following August Juch was back in Denver, again heading east after west coast appearances. This time she opened the new Broadway Theatre with a matinee performance of Carmen. The two-week run also included Tannhauser, Lohengrin, The Flying Dutchman, Il Trovatore and Faust (apparently her favorite), all sung-- as usual-- in English. Obviously some operas were heard more than once: Faust was given three times.  Reviews were always laudatory for the entire cast, and for individuals words such as "exceedingly high merit," "sings the role more than well," "rich contralto voice of excellent quality...." Of Juch singing Marguerite in Faust: "Her singing of the jewel song captured the audience." In both Denver appearances Neuendorff conducted, and the orchestra was enlarged by local talent: "The work of the Juch orchestra during the past week [the week in March] at the Broadway theater was extremely satisfactory, and the able direction of conductor Neuendorff was a marked feature. It should not be forgotten that the Juch company's orchestra were assisted by that of the theater... nearly all the members are soloists of merit.... Wherever it performed the Juch Grand English Opera Company received fine reviews. This writer has not read a negative one. Nevertheless, Juch apparently tired of the hassles of extensive travels with her large company. She had Charles E. Locke who handled most non-musical responsibilities on tour while Emma made the musical decisions; this was a common arrangement with the traveling opera companies. In May of 1894 the New York Times announced that Emma Juch was engaged to Francis L. Wellman, an Assistant District Attorney in New York City. She and Wellman had met on her way back from Europe in the summer of 1893. This apparently was Emma's first big romance, and the couple was to be married June 26. In late May Emma told the press: "After a brief stay in town [New York], I shall go home for a time [Stamford, Conn.].  I am to sing on June 15, 16, 17 at the music festival in Toronto. On June 23 I sing at the Saengerfest in Madison Square Garden, and three days later I am to be married. I shall never again sing in opera. Perhaps no more in concert, but sometimes I may appear in oratorio." But her final public appearance was at the New York Saengerfest on June 23. Perhaps Emma was recalling some of her chaotic traveling experiences as when in March of 1890 she was scheduled for an 8:00 p.m. performance of Faust in Cheyenne. Earlier that day a collision of two other trains west of Green River, Wyoming delayed Juch's special train which was coming east from Utah. She and her company arrived in Cheyenne at 9:30 p.m. and started the opera at 10:30 before an audience "greatly reduced." Nonetheless, "the Union Pacific Band turned out and honored the company with a splendid musical greeting in front of the opera house." The following year Juch had another train travel delay, this time stopped by a snow slide when traveling from Idaho to an Ogden, Utah performance. A special train was sent to pick up the opera company on the other side of the snow block, and according to a newspaper account it "ran 70 miles per hour for 250 miles, arriving at 10:00 p.m. Miss Juch carried out her engagement to a packed house. The run from Idaho here [Ogden] was the fastest ever made in the west. The plucky little diva insisted on the throttle being pulled wide open. A number of chorus girls fainted during the trip." This copy made scintillating reading for the newspapers of the day, but it is a factual reminder of a romantic though sometimes hazardous mode of travel once so essential to our earlier operatic companies. Such experiences within a year might give anyone pause to consider the strain of transcontinental rail tours! The wedding on June 26 was a huge social affair. Both the church, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Stamford, and her home on Glenbrook Avenue were lavishly decorated with flowers. "The bride entered the church with Col. Albert A. Pope of Boston, who gave her away. Mr. Pope is an old friend of Miss Juch's family. A choir of forty boys met the bridal procession and escorted it to the chancel, singing the Bridal Song in Lohengrin. Between the betrothal and wedding, the same choir of youthful voices sang "The Voice that Came O'er Eden" and the recess hymn "Perfect Love." Among the many guests were William Steinway and Miss Amy Fay, pianist and author of the soon-to-be-published Music Studies in Germany. The marriage did not last. Emma and Francis were divorced in 1911; she was his second wife. Juch died March 6, 1939, nearly forty years after her last public performance. She had moved to New York City, 151 East 80th Street, where she died of cerebral hemorrhage. There were no immediate survivors. In 1894 when Emma ended her career because of marriage, the eminent New York Times music critic William J. Henderson had written: "Emma Juch was for something more than a dozen years one of the best known and most popular sopranos in the United States."

In Vienna, Austria there is a street named "Juchgasse". This street was named in honor of Ernst JUCH (1838-1909) who was a cartoonist and artist.

Picture by Mary & Dave Maxwell

October 2001

JUCH, Ernst (1838-1909)
"Peasant Kitchen" by Ernst Juch, Late 19th Century
Drawing-Watercolour , Watercolor ,40x29 cm (15.7x11.4 in)
AUSTRIA

Sorry for the poor quality

Ernst Juch also painted the following:

Galante Werbungim Salon

Galantes Liebespaar

Eheliche Liebe

Die Versuchungunvollendet

Heimkehrende Fisher

Street Scean in Vienna

Of special note also is Dr. Otto JUCH, Austrian Finance Minister between 16 October 1929 and 20 June 1931. Dr. OTTO JUCH was born 25 Feb 1876 in Kirchbichl Tirol, Austria died 19 Feb 1964 in Vienna. His profession: financial civil servant. From 1929 - till 1931 Financial Minister / 1929-1931 & Chancellor of the Exchequer in Austria. Dr.Otto Juch's father was Karl Juch, a building contractor.

Information provided by Flip Juch 29Nov1997

Federal Ministers for Finance 

Bundesfinanzminister

1929 - 1931 Otto Juch

THE JUCH MYSTERY IN LARMOSS, AUSTRIA

By Roy Juch

On Saturday, 24 June 2006, my wife, granddaughter and I spent the night in the JUCHHOF hotel and restaurant in Larmoss, Austria. Please see below. This was one of the most enjoyable visits we found on our month stay in Europe. Of course we just had to spend the night in the JUCHHOF just to try and learn where the name originated and possibly find more Juch “cousins”! Unfortunately the proprietor Helmut Koch and family did not have any ideas where the Juch name came from. Mr. Koch did inform me that there was some effort currently being undertaken by someone in the City of Larmoss to investigate and possibly find an answer to this mystery. This information would be a very welcome addition to this Austrian web page!

I can highly recommend the JUCHHOF as a pleasant, friendly and immaculately clean place to spend a vacation. The food was exceptionally good in taste and value. I can still hear the Saturday night music, as it was very good also. Although we are not snow people and do not snow ski we do intend to return to the JUCHHOF on future visits to the area. We look forward to our next visit with the Koch family at the JUCHHOF.

Back to the JUCH Home Page

Back to the JUCH French Web Page

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Please send them to Roy Juch at:

RoyJuch at Juch dot Net