Maglić (Backi Petrovac)
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Маглић Maglić Bulkesz |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
| Okrug : |
Južna Bačka |
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| Opština : | Backi Petrovac | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 22 ' N , 19 ° 32' E | ||||
| Height : | 85 m. i. J. | ||||
| Area : | 26 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 2,723 (1944) | ||||
| Population density : | 105 inhabitants per km² | ||||
Maglić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Маглић ) or Bački Maglić (Serbian Cyrillic Бачки Маглић ), German Bulkes , Serbian and 1949 Buljkes , Hungarian Bulkesz or Bulkeszi , is a town in the municipality Petrovac , in the autonomous province of Vojvodina , in the Republic of Serbia lies.
history
The village was built by German settlers under the name Bulkes in 1786 in the Pannonian Plain between the Danube and Tisza . Until 1944 it was a purely German, Protestant community. In 1931, according to the census, it had around 2850 inhabitants. From 1944 to 1945 the German population was expelled and interned .
In May 1945, 4650 Greeks were settled in Bulkes by the Yugoslav government. The last settlement of the village began in late 1949 and ended around 1953. The new settlers, mostly Serbs, came in waves from all over Yugoslavia. In 1949, Bulkes was renamed Maglić.
On September 11, 2011, a memorial symbol for the civilians from the German population of Bulkes who perished in various internment and labor camps in and outside Yugoslavia in the period 1944–1947 was inaugurated. The commemoration took place in the presence of the Mayor of Maglić, relatives and representatives of Danube Swabian country teams as well as political representatives from Vojvodina and a representative of the German embassy. The three-winged memorial symbol made of black marble plaques, financed by the Maglić municipality and donations from relatives, contains on its six pages the names of the 833 (eight hundred and thirty-three) civilians (children, women and the elderly) who perished in the camps.
Home Committee
In the early 1950s, a so-called home committee, a kind of local council, was set up for the Bulkes people. The first tasks were to find the Bulkes people scattered all over the world and to organize the home meetings. The rooms around Kirchheim unter Teck and Vienna became the focal points of the events of the home community.
The first home meeting took place in 1951 in Holzmaden . After 1952 in Neunkirchen (Baden) , the meetings have taken place every two years since 1954 at Whitsun in the sponsored town of Kirchheim unter Teck .
Sponsorship
In 1966, the city took Kirchheim unter Teck the sponsorship on the town Bulkes.
Home parlor
On the initiative of the home town community , a home parlor was set up in the hospital in 1976 . Since 1991 it has been located in the listed city museum building. In 2012, the Bulkeser Heimatstube was closed and the objects came into the holdings of the Kirchheim City Archives.
The collection includes traditional costumes, embroidery, household and agricultural objects, architectural models, paintings and graphics. In addition, image and archive materials provide insights into what life was like in the village.
literature
- Karl Elicker, Karl Brunner: Bulkes. Becoming and decaying a German community. Kirchheim unter Teck, 1958 (extended new edition of the Festschrift written by Karl Elicker for the 150th anniversary: Festschrift of the 150-year- old Buljkes community 1786–1936. Neusatz / Novi Sad, 1936)
- Local community Bulkes: Bulkes 1786–1944, history of a German community in the Batschka. Self-published, Kirchheim unter Teck, 1984.
- Heinrich Hoffmann: Before the traces disappear. Self-published, Kirchheim unter Teck, 2012.
Web links
- http://www.hog-bulkes.de (Homepage of the Bulkes hometown community)
- http://www.bulkes.de (another Bulkes homepage )
- http://www.maglic.org (page about Maglić)