About Tisch

Tisch (Ktis) is a town of about 500 people in the Sudeten Mountains of Southern Bohemia. It is 82 miles south of Praha (Prague) in the Czech Republic. The town is now known as Ktis. Its coordinates are Latitude 48°55' N, Longitude 14°08'E.

Until World War I, its people spoke German and were primarily Catholic. After the war, in 1919, Bohemia and neighboring areas were drawn into the new country of Czechoslovakia. After the atrocities of World War II, German-speaking residents were expelled from the Sudetenland.