Backi Brestovac
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Бачки Брестовац Bački Brestovac |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
| Okrug : |
Zapadna Backa |
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| Coordinates : | 45 ° 37 ′ N , 19 ° 16 ′ E | ||||
| Residents : | 2,819 (2011) | ||||
| Postal code : | 25242 | ||||
| License plate : | SO | ||||
Bački Brestovac ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бачки Брестовац , Hungarian Szilberek , German Ulmenau , Brestowatz ) is a place in Serbia . It belongs to the municipality of Odžaci in Okrug Zapadna Backa in the autonomous province of Vojvodina .
Surname
The German name Brestowatz has its origins in Slavic and goes back to the word Brest ( elm ), which is why the name Ulmenau was also used in German. From the Magyarization in 1904 the place was called Szilberek until the end of the First World War . From 1918 the official name was Bački Brestovac until it was again called Szilberek when it was occupied in 1941 during World War II . Since October 1944, Bački Brestovac is again the official name of the municipality.
population
The majority of the population in Backi Brestovac is of Serbian descent. The population has been falling for decades; In 1961, 5226 people lived in Bački Brestovac; in 2002 it was only 3469 people. According to the 2011 census, there are only 2819 people today.
history
After the Turkish rule, the Batschka area was depopulated. Under the reign of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Joseph II , it was settled by Germans, and several villages were founded between 1784 and 1787; so did Brestowatz in 1786.
The hundred settlers came with the Ulmer Schachteln from southern Germany over the Danube to Apatin and from there by land to Brestowatz, among other places. The people newly settled in the Batschka managed to cultivate the landscape over the decades and turn the Batschka into a granary .
The Brestowatz population mainly operated in agriculture. Grown wheat , oats , barley , corn , sugar beet , hemp and sunflower . Farmers' associations and a central cooperative were created through the merger of the farmers. Industry was poorly represented in Brestowatz, and merchants were almost exclusively Jews until 1890.
In 1944 the German population had to flee before the advance of the Russian troops. With a trek of horses, wagons and tractors, she set off up the Danube to the west. The trek covered a thousand kilometers in 23 days. The escape was provisionally ended in Linz on the Danube and Grieskirchen in Upper Austria . After a two-year stay, most of the refugees were brought to southern Germany and distributed over the entire Federal Republic of Germany that was newly established after the Second World War .
The 1,500 Germans who remained in Brestowatz were abducted as prisoners of war and interned in camps; only about 600 of them survived.
church
A church was built in Brestowatz as early as 1787, although mud bricks were still used for buildings at that time. A brick and clapboard church was not built until 1818. Due to the increased population, the church had to be expanded in the second half of the 19th century. This extension still exists today.
In 1751 a church for the Orthodox population was built in Brestowatz .
Franz Xaver Voegelin, born in the Black Forest in Baden , was the first bilingual priest (German and French) to take over pastoral care in Brestowatz in 1788.
Sponsoring community
Personalities
Born here
- Sebastian Leicht (1908–2002), artist
- Koloman Moullion (1909–1971), Catholic priest
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bernd and Georg Richter: Brestowatz in the Batschka
- ↑ Population of Bački Brestovac (accessed November 4, 2014)