Baratzhausen was first documented in 1411, and called Barochhaz, in 1428 Barothhaz.

From the time of the Turks, Baratzhausen was an uninhabited Puszta which later was inhabited by Romanians. About 7 km northeast from Knees is a stop on the railway line Timisoara-Saint-Andres Perjamosch.

The first large wave of German-Catholic settlers arrived in 1830 from various German municipalities in the area.  The highest population peaked in Baratzhausen between 1882 and 1892, with over 500 inhabitants.  After the war in 1948 the population shrank to 269; and today no Donauschwaben reside in Baratzhausen.

In 1803, decades before the German-Catholics settled, the Capdebo family of Armenian nobility who immigrated from Moldova and from Elisabethstadt/Erzsebetvaros, now called Dumbraveni to Baratzhausen; adopted the Catholic faith and became the first Catholic family in the village. Occasionally they had their own priest and teachers, because the other inhabitants were Orthodox.  The numbers of Catholics in 1812 were 12; then suddenly increased to 24, and in 1814-1815 increased to 54.  Because of the natural growth in Baratzhausen, the population increased steadily until the early 1830 from 76 to 112 and in 1835 it was 185.

According to the Baratzhausen parish records, the first baptismal was in 1828 for Josepha Johanna Ludovica, the daughter of Johann Capdebo de Baraczháza and Franziska; Godparents were Ludwig Baron von Lo-Presti and Josepha Lozanbrun.

The first marriages recorded was for (1): Perillustris Dominus Johannes Kőrtvelyesi Jurisassessor of the Temesch District, son of Ladislaus and Maria Kőrtvélyesi (nee) Kossa, age 36 and single; and (2): Domicella Anna Capdebo, the daughter of Martin Capdebo de Baraczháza and Johanna Kapdebo de Talpas, age 19 and single.  The marriage witnesses were the noble judges in the Temesch District Herr Anton Rakavits and Herr Georg Capdebo. 

The first recorded death was on May 3, 1826 for Josef Martin Ignaz Capdebo, who died at three weeks old.  A common practice of 1838 was to build a small beautiful chapel, "Schmerzhafte Mutter Gottes." On October 27, 1839, Deacon Kopold of Neubeschenowa, dedicated and consecrated the Capdebo family chapel, whose crypt beneath the church lays to rest 45 family members.

Between 1838 and 1839 the school grades were divided for the first time. Because the village didn't have a school, class was held at the teacher, Jakob Kronenbitter's residence. In 1855, a teacher Josef Köber, offered his assistance and bought land from Margaretha Joch (widow) and built the first school and teachers residence. 

Alex Leeb interview with Eva-Maria Capdebo, remembering the Capdebo de Baraczhaza family of Banat and Temesvar/Temeswar in Hungary. 

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/donauschwaben-villages/2006-09/1158284163