8th October 1938
Ludgerstal
Cover sent from Ludgerstal (Ludgerovice - Czech Republic) to an address in Berlin. Featuring a provisional 'Postamt Ludgerstal' cancellation together with a slogan cachet stating, 'Wir danken dem Führer/ Tag der Befreinung 8.X.1938' (We thank the Leader -
Day of liberation 8.X.1938). Ref: 08.10.1938
Ludgerstal
(Linked via 'Bochmann' in the index but not part of the Bochmann catalogue of 1952)
From Wikipedia.de
Following the Versailles Treaty of 1919, the Hultčín region was ceeded to Czechoslovakia on 4th February 1920 and the Okres Hlučín was formed from it.
In 1921, 3,250 people lived in the 432 houses in the municipality of Ludgeřovice/ Ludgerstal, including 2,740 Czechs, 454 Germans and six Jews. By 1925, the Deutsch Krawarn – Annaberg railway line, which was unfinished by the First World War, was completed on the section between Hlučín and Petřkovice, giving Ludgeřovice a train station. In 1930 Ludgeřovice consisted of 561 houses and had 3,916 residents.
According to the Munich Agreement, Ludgerstal was occupied by theGerman Reich on 2nd October 1938, together with the Hultschiner Ländchen.
The community now belonged to the Hultschin district, which was incorporated into the Ratibor district in the Prussian province of Silesia in 1939. The Petershofen district, newly established on 17th January 1939, consisted of the communities of Koblau, Ludgerstal, Markersdorf and Petershofen. During the Second World War, 250 residents died. After the end of the war, Ludgeřovice returned to Czechoslovakia.
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