Gottlob (Timiș)

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Gottlob
KISOSZ
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Gottlob (Timiș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Banat
Circle : Timiș
Coordinates : 45 ° 56 '  N , 20 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '15 "  N , 20 ° 42' 25"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 91  m
Area : 32.29  km²
Residents : 2,041 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 63 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 307251
Telephone code : (+40) 02 56
License plate : TM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Thank God, Vicejdia
Mayor : Gheorghe Nastor ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 274
loc. Thank god, jud. Timiș, RO-307251
Website :
Location of Gottlob in Timiș County

Gottlob ( German  Gottlob , Hungarian Kisősz ) is a municipality in the Timiș district , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania , which was founded by Banat Swabians . The place is located northwest of Timișoara and southwest of Arad and in 2007 had about 2300 inhabitants. The place is located about six kilometers southwest of Lovrin , on the Lovrin – Nerău railway line .

Neighboring places

Tomnatic Sânpetru Mare Lovrin
Teremia Mare Neighboring communities Bulgăruș
Comloșu Mare Grabaț Lenauheim

history

The village was founded between 1770 and 1773 with 203 houses. The Catholic parish has existed since 1773. The population was of the Catholic denomination until the 1940s, with the exception of a tiny minority.

On June 4, 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon . The largest, eastern part, to which God also belonged, fell to Romania.

As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler's Germany , all men of German origin who were conscripted into the German army. Before the end of the war, in January 1945, all ethnic German women between the ages of 18 and 30 and men between the ages of 16 and 45 were deported to the Soviet Union for reconstruction work .

The Land Reform Act of March 23, 1945 , which provided for the expropriation of German farmers without compensation, as former members of the German ethnic group in Romania , deprived the rural population of their livelihood. At the same time, the houses of the Germans were also expropriated without compensation. Land and farmhouses were distributed to smallholders, farm workers and colonists from other parts of the country. The Nationalization Act of June 11, 1948 provided for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial enterprises, banks and insurance companies, whereby all commercial enterprises were expropriated regardless of ethnicity.

On June 18, 1951, the deportation took place in the Bărăgan steppe , according to the "plan for the evacuation of elements over a section of 25 km, the presence of which constitutes a danger for the border area with Yugoslavia". When the Bărăgan displaced people returned home in 1956, they got back the houses and farms that had been expropriated in 1945, but the land ownership was collectivized .

Gottlob was the parish seat until 1967, but due to the small number of inhabitants it was downgraded to a village without its own administration. In 2003 Gottlob was declared a municipality again and has had its own mayor again since then.

The Germans formed the largest part of the population in the town until 1940 (1910: 91%). After the war, the composition of the local residents changed significantly - by 1977 the number of Germans had been reduced from 1,836 (1910) to 875, who made up only 38% of the population. This trend continued and led to a number of only 160 Germans in 1991 and 98 in February 1996.

The main reasons are the emigration to Germany both immediately after the Second World War and the flight of many residents during the Cold War . Another wave of emigration hit the town after the borders were opened in 1991.

The emigration of residents in 1992 left a village in which only every third house (other sources say every fourth house) was habitable.

Until 1992 there was a German school and a German kindergarten in Gottlob, but they were closed due to a lack of pupils. A local Romanian school took in the children.

The town's church was built in 1867 and lavishly furnished by the wealthy town. The ceiling paintings and the altar have been well cared for for more than a hundred years. Several figures of saints were specially cared for by local families, which was a special honor. Parts of the church furnishings were stolen or destroyed during the 1990s. The facade was renewed at the end of the 1990s through donations from Germany.

In 1994 a memorial stone was erected in the Gottlober cemetery on All Saints' Day . The following inscription is on a marble slab:

The dead in memory, the living in legacy
Heroes Fallen 1939–1945 52
1945–1949 Deported from Russia 17 dead
1951–1956 Deportation to the Baragan, 9 dead
Rest gently! - Congregation thank God

Today the Romanian majority determines the cultural image of God praise. The first rugă (church consecration) took place on November 3, 1996 and was accompanied by a parade in costume.

The former state enterprise station for the mechanization of agriculture (SMA) was divided into several societies after the revolution of 1989, which cultivate the soil of the locality as well as neighboring places. The former company premises fell into disrepair.

The care of the residents deteriorated in 2003 when the resident village doctor stopped working and turned to agriculture as it is more lucrative.

The Gottlob community emerged from the Lovrin (Lowrin) community since 2004 .

photos

  • Church of Gottlob,
    built in 1867
  • Renovated and old part of the church facade
  • Elementary school, 2004
  • The memorial stone on Gottlob's cemetery
  • Decay on the site of the former SMA

Personalities

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Gottlob  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ↑ Information from the Romanian parliament on the establishment of some municipalities , accessed on September 7, 2018 (Romanian).