Futog

Футог
Futog
Futok

Basic data

State :

Serbia

Province :

Vojvodina

Okrug :

Južna Bačka

Coordinates :

45 ° 14 ′ N , 19 ° 43 ′ E Coordinates: 45 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N , 19 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E

Residents :

18,582 (2002)

Telephone code :

(+381) 021

Postal code :

21 410

License plate :

NS

Structure and administration

Community type:

city

Website :

www.futog.info

Futog (Cyrillic Футог, Hungarian Futak , German Futok , also Eugenwall ) is a town with 18,582 inhabitants in the Batschka in Serbia , on the central Danube about 10 kilometers west of Novi Sad .

history

Futog was first mentioned in 1224 when it was destroyed by Tatars . It became a market town in 1500 and came to the Ottoman Empire only a little later in 1526 after the Battle of Mohács . The Turkish rule lasted over 160 years until 1687, when the Austrians won a great victory over the Ottomans in another battle at Mohács . In the years 1716-17, Prince Eugene of Savoy stayed in Futog. In the years 1763–64, the planned settlement of the place began with settlers recruited in Swabia and Alsace. In 1769 the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Andreas Hadik was raised to the rank of imperial count due to his military service and was transferred to the rule of Futak. Neu-Futak was founded in 1774. In 1776 the Serbian Orthodox Church was built and consecrated. It is dedicated to the holy doctors Cosmas and Damian. In 1788 Emperor Joseph II visited the place.

In 1852 the rule went to Rudolf Chotek von Chotkow . Politically, in the revolutionary years from 1848 to 1849, Futog belonged to Vojvodschaft Serbia , an autonomous region within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. From 1849 to 1860 this was combined with the Banat to form the Vojvodschaft Serbia and the Temescher Banat . In 1895 Futog was connected to the railway network and received its own train station.

After the First World War , on December 1, 1918, the place became part of the newly founded so-called SHS state (Slovenes, Croats, Serbs: Država S lovenaca, H rvata i S rba), which became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929 after a constitutional reform .

Until 1945 the place consisted of two communities:

Novi Futog (Neufutok, Mackensenhorst) with a purely German population,
Stari Futog (Altfutok, Eugendorf, also Eugenwall) with a mixed German-Serbian population.

The German population fled in October 1944 when the Red Army approached or was later expelled.