Bela Crkva

Бела Црква Bela Crkva Fehértemplom
A street and the Roman Catholic Church in Bela Crkva
Basic data
State :	Serbia
Province :	Vojvodina
Okrug :	Južni Banat
Coordinates :	44 ° 54 '  N , 21 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 53 '51 "  N , 21 ° 25' 2"  E
Residents :	10,675 (2002)
Telephone code :	(+381) 13
License plate :	VŠ
Structure and administration
Mayor :	Marjan Aleksić ( SNS )
Website :	www.belacrkva.rs

Bela Crkva ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бела Црква , German  Weißkirchen , Hungarian Fehértemplom , Romanian Biserica Albă ) is a small Serbian town in the Južni Banat district of Vojvodina near the border with Romania . The city with 10,675 inhabitants is the administrative center of the municipality of the same name; it lies on the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains . In addition to Serbs , many Czechs , Yugoslavs , Roma , Romanians and Hungarians also live here . The village of Češko Selo ("Czech village"), the only place in Serbia and Vojvodina where the Czech ethnic group makes up the majority of the population, also belongs to the municipality .

Lake landscape in the vicinity of Bela Crkva (near Vračev Gaj)

history

Bela Crkva was founded in 1717.

According to the 1910 census in Austria-Hungary, 6,062 of the city's 11,524 residents spoke German, 1,994 Serbian, 1,806 Romanian and 1,213 Hungarian. Of the 36,831 inhabitants of the surrounding areas, however, 20,987 spoke Serbian, 8,234 Romanian and 4,791 German. The Germans were expelled after World War II and the victory of the Yugoslav partisans . In 2002 their share of the population was only 29 people or 0.27%.

The Russian Orthodox Church in the city

In 1972 the city was the site of a true-to-original film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" by the BBC . The wintry Moscow of the year 1812 was "doubled" by Bela Crkva / Weißkirchen, with around 1000 soldiers of the Yugoslav army working as extras.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Đorđe Protić (1793–1857), Minister, Deputy Prince of Serbia, Member of the State Council, President of the Court of Justice in Belgrade
• Carl Sonklar (1816–1885), colonel, military geographer, pioneer of alpine surveying
• Rudolf von Chavanne (1850–1936), Austro-Hungarian kuk general
• Rudolf Nováček (1860–1929), composer and conductor
• Ludwig Kremling (1861–1930), politician
• Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie (1864–1931), writer, playwright and poet
• Ottokar Nováček (1866–1900), composer
• Karl Nováček (1868–1929), cellist, conductor and military bandmaster
• Anton Arnold (1881–1954), singer, tenor at the Vienna State Opera
• Anny Konetzni (1902–1968), opera singer at the Vienna State Opera
• Zoltán Beke (1911–1994), Romanian football player and coach of Hungarian descent
• Helmut Erwert (* 1933) literary and historical researcher

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Anna in Bela Crkva

Web links

Commons : Bela Crkva  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bela Crkva Municipality website (Serbian)
• Private portal about Bela Crkva (Serbian, English)
• Portal about Bela Crkva (www.belacrkva.eu - Serbian)
• Website in German

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stanovništvo, nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost, podaci po naseljima , Republički zavod za statistiku , Beograd, February 2003, ISBN 86-84433-00-9
2. ↑ Vesela Lalo: Bela Crkva, Gradić sa četiri imena i sa nemačkim nasleđem. Tragovi baroknog sjaja provincijalne panonske varoši. In: Window - poverenje, pomirenje, poštenje ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 754 kB)