Ečka
Ечка Ečka |
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State : | Serbia | |||
Province : | Vojvodina | |||
Okrug : |
Srednji Banat |
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Opština : | Zrenjanin | |||
Coordinates : | 45 ° 19 ' N , 20 ° 27' E | |||
Height : | 71 m. i. J. | |||
Area : | 25.5 km² | |||
Residents : | 3,997 (2011) | |||
Population density : | 157 inhabitants per km² | |||
Telephone code : | (+381) 023 | |||
Postal code : | 23203 | |||
License plate : | ZR |
Ečka ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ечка , Romanian : Ecica Română, Hungarian : Écska (until 1899 Német-Écska), German : Deutsch-Etschka) is a place in the Serbian Banat and belongs to the administrative area of the city of Zrenjanin .
history
Attila, King of the Huns , set up a tent camp on the site of today's village of Ečka during the campaign against the Roman Empire . The name Ečka is derived from Atilla's wife, and according to legends even from the name of one of his daughters who died at a young age in this tent camp. According to historical documents, Magyars founded the village, followed by Serbs and Romanians .
The development of the village began with the settlement of the Transylvanian Count Lazar Lukács , who had the hunting lodge Kaštel Ečka built on the English model on his large estate in the 19th century . At the opening ceremony on August 29, 1820, the then nine-year-old composer Franz Liszt played a piano. Today the hunting lodge, renovated in the original style, serves as a hotel , comprises 14 rooms and three apartments and is surrounded by a park . Emperor Franz Josef I and Count Esterházy were among the most renowned guests of the Kaštel .
Today Ečka is a typical Banat village with a neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic and a Romanian Orthodox church. The Sveti Nikola Church , built around 1711, is one of the oldest Serbian Orthodox churches in Vojvodina .
Demographics
According to the 2011 census , 3,997 people lived in 1,498 households in Ečka . Another 361 people have permanent residence in Ečka but live permanently abroad. Compared to the 2002 census, the number of inhabitants has decreased by 519 people and 66 households.
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More than half of the population is of Serbian ethnicity , and almost a quarter have Romanian roots.
- Serbs : 55.01%
- Romanians : 29.35%
- Hungary : 4.34%
- Yugoslavs : 2.72%
- Roma , 1.59%
- Montenegrins : 0.46%
- Croatians : 0.31%
- Bulgarians : 0.26%
- Slovaks : 0.19%
- German : 0.19%
- Macedonians : 0.11%
- Slovenes : 0.08%
- Muslims : 0.08%
- Ukrainians : 0.06%
- Albanians : 0.02%
- Unknown: 1.13%
gallery
Bega Bridge, built in 1889 by Count Harnoncourt, renovated in 1894 and 2005
Catholic church Ečka in neo-Romanesque style
Iconostasis in the Romanian Orthodox Church