Inđija

Inđija ( Serbian - Cyrillic Инђија , former German and Hungarian name: India) is a town in the Srem district in the Serbian province of Vojvodina , about 30 kilometers northwest of Belgrade , off the European route 75 . It has around 26,000 inhabitants. According to the 2002 census, the town of Inđija is home to 87.6% Serbs , 2.0% each from Croats and Yugoslavs and 1.4% from Ukrainians .

history

Main street in the city center with the catholic church

The first written mention of Inđija dates from 1455. However, the place was north of today's settlement. Inđija can then be found in the charter of the despot Jovan Branković from 1496. During the Ottoman rule (16th to 18th centuries) Inđija was mostly inhabited by ethnic Serbs and part of the Ottoman Sanjak Syrmia .

From 1718 Inđija belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy , later Austria-Hungary and fell to Count Johann Baptist von Colloredo and Waldsee as a fief with the regions of western Syrmia in 1728 . After the Croatian baron Marko Pejačević took over this property on lease, the modern development of Inđija began with the establishment of the military border and the purchase of the Mitrowitz property by Baron Pejačević in 1745 from the Rudolph Joseph von Colloredo . Today's Inđija was re- founded in 1746 by Serbian resettlers from Beška and Patka . From the description of 1746 there were 60 households at that time. In 1791 there were already 122 households and 1054 inhabitants. In the second half of the 18th century Inđija was mostly populated by ethnic Serbs. Germans and Czechs began to settle in Inđija at the beginning of the 19th century, while the Hungarians , who formed the largest majority in Inđija after the Serbs, gradually emigrated.

At the beginning of the 19th century, masses were held in Inđija for the first time. At this time the first post office was opened in Inija. The first telegraph opened in Inđija in 1850, while the first postal transfers began in 1886. The first bank was opened in 1897 and the first commercial school in 1897. The first electric power plant in Inđija was put into operation in 1911.

Industrial progress began in Inđija with the establishment of mills in the mid-19th century, later the first large steam-powered mill, built by a Budapest company in 1890. The mills were followed by brick factories, while the first carpenter's workshop for furniture production was founded in 1876. At the beginning of the 20th century, a fur factory that was later known was founded in Inđija .

Pedestrian zone with TQ City

The industrial development of Inđija largely depended on the development of the railway infrastructure. The first train station was built in Inđija in 1883. Then as now, Inđija is an important railway junction . Here the tracks branch in three directions: Subotica and Zagreb in the north and west and Belgrade in the south-east. This location makes Inđija an important hub for the two most important routes from Central Europe to the Balkan Peninsula .

Since 1918 Inđija was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 ). After the First World War , the first factories for prams, nails, jam, powdered eggs and parachutes were built. Textiles and metal processing factories followed immediately after World War II . In the first half of the 20th century Inđija became a traditional trading place and the seat of many successful trading companies in what was then socialist Yugoslavia . The first highway in Serbia, the so-called "International Road" ( Novi Sad - Belgrade ), which was built in 1939, ran through Inđija. The city was then one of the most developed settlements in the region. Today the absolute majority in the city with 87.61% of the population are Serbs. Inđija is also one of the most advanced Serbian municipalities and a major investment destination.

Town twinning

Italy Paderno Dugnano , Italy
North Macedonia Ohrid , North Macedonia

sons and daughters of the town

Oskar Sommerfeld (1885–1973), painter
Oskar Feldtänzer (1922–2009), Austrian historian
Zoran Janković (* 1974), football player and coach
Miroslav Raduljica (* 1988), basketball player
Nemanja Ilić (* 1992), football player

Individual evidence

↑ Слободан Ђуриц: Населја Срема - Гәографске карактеристике. P. 129. Матица Српска, Institut za Geografiju, Novi Sad 2001.

Web links

Commons : Inđija - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official homepage of the city of Inđija ( Serbian / English )

[1] Слободан Ђуриц: Населја Срема - Гәографске карактеристике. P. 129. Матица Српска, Institut za Geografiju, Novi Sad 2001.