Elemir

Елемир
Elemir

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Basic data

State :

Serbia

Province :

Vojvodina

Okrug :

Srednji Banat

Coordinates :

45 ° 27 ' N , 20 ° 18' E Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '34 " N , 20 ° 17' 53" E

Height :

78 m. i. J.

Telephone code :

(+381) 023

Postal code :

23208

License plate :

ZR

Serbian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration

Elemir ( Serbian - Cyrillic Елемир , Hungarian Elemér , German Elemer ) is a place in the municipality of Zrenjanin in the Serbian Banat . It is located 13 km northwest of the city center of Zrenjanin and about 90 km north of Belgrade . Elemir is a typical village of German colonists.

history

According to a legend, the word Elemir is supposed to have no time fixation, but based on the Church Slavonic spelling Elemirje in the registers of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the place, reports of a crowd of dispersed refugees. These, after the supposedly safe settlement on the high bank of the old Tisza bed, said: ele me ever (for example: now / here is peace). The words stayed in use and the more catchy syllables eventually resulted in Elemir.

Roman Catholic Church of St. Augustine

At the beginning of the 1780s, the Vienna Court Chamber sold land in the Banat to private individuals. So it came about that Isaak Kiss bought a considerable property in Vienna from Elemir in the summer of 1781 , as well as the two times larger one from Ittebey. With the acquisition of large state land, the elevation to the lower hereditary nobility went hand in hand; for the Kiss family: de Ellemer et Ittebey. Isaak Kiss is said to have stayed in town for the first time in mid-September and inspected his property.

The first German new settlers came to Elemir in 1800, most likely in the spring, at the latest by the beginning of summer. The time frame for settlement cannot be narrowed down, especially since immigration, but also emigration, has never stopped, and dragged on for at least months, if not years.

In October 1945 new settlers of Serbian origin from northwestern Bosnia took over the abandoned houses of the forcibly displaced German inhabitants of Elemir.

Residents

1931: 904 Germans. 1941: 970 Germans

Churches

In Elemir there is a Serbian Orthodox and a Catholic parish church. The Catholic parish church of St. Augustine was a branch church of St. Joannes Nepomucus in Zrenjanin until 1805 . In the years before the Danube Swabian colonists settled there were only a few Catholics, mostly of Hungarian origin. Only with the settlement more and more Catholics came to the place, so that in 1805 75 baptisms, eight marriages and 34 deaths were recorded in the church records. The first pastor was a Franciscan from 1805 to 1828 , Father Bernardus Szalkay. Today the parish is looked after from Zrenjanin again, in November 2007 there were still about four Catholics living in Elemir.

Personalities

Matthias Giljum (1902–1980), German journalist

literature

Mathias Franzen: local history. History, settlement and expulsion of the Deutsch-Elemer community , self-published by the author, undated, Munich
Marco Leitl u. Rudolf Müller: Family book of the Catholic parish Deutsch-Elemer in the Banat 1790-1944 , 2007, Books on Demand GmbH, ISBN 978-3-8370-1286-6 .