Hi, Andrea,
Goodness! Somehow, I missed seeing your reply; hope you are still @ this site. My "Sprentz/Sprencz/Princz/Printz" family emigrated to the USA from Homenna/Humenne, then in Zemplin megye, Hungary, now in Slovakia. It's only a short train ride from Satoralja-Ujhely to Humenne, and Hosszu-laz is only a few kilometers from Satoralja-Uhely.
I understand that Hosszu-laz was one of the "German" towns in Hungary, and that may link the "Sprentz" and "Printz" families of Moselle and the Saar; apparently the family was known as "Printz" on the west of the Rhine, and "Sprentz" on the east, but that wasn't hard-and-fast, either. I'm told that they "were" emigrated to Hungary by Emperor Josef II in 1789 or thereabouts, and given a plot of land, a house, and a cow in return for having Roman Catholics to keep back the Swedes and Poles from taking over that area.
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