Obrovac (Serbia)
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Обровац Obrovac |
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Province : | Vojvodina | ||||
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Južna Bačka |
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| Opština : | Backa Palanka | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 19 ′ N , 19 ° 21 ′ E | ||||
| Height : | 82 m. i. J. | ||||
| Residents : | 3,177 (2002) | ||||
| License plate : | NS | ||||
Obrovac ( Kyr . Обровац , Hungarian Boróc , German Obrowatz or Oberndorf ) is a place in the autonomous province of Vojvodina , in Serbia .
The place is about 8 km from the Danube and belongs to the municipality of Bačka Palanka .
history
According to a conscription of the Bacs Bodroger monograph from 1699, 23 economists lived in Obrovac, who together owned 109 yoke fields. In 1722 Obrovac was a municipality with 126 house places and a purely Serbian population, who immigrated under the patriarch Arsen Crnojevic in 1692. In 1782 the Serbian Orthodox Church was built. It is still in the possession of a golden chalice from 1737. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Germans began to settle in the Serbian community.
In 1931 the population distribution was as follows:
- 1,907 Roman Catholic
- 1,093 Serbian Orthodox
- 19 Protestants
- 11 people of different faiths
In 1944 there were 1844 inhabitants, 55% of whom were Danube Swabians , who came from other neighboring towns and settled there from 1806. Until 1919 Obrovac belonged to Austria-Hungary . In 1941 the southern Batschka was re-incorporated into Hungary. At that time the place was called Boróc.
Obrovac in World War II
With the beginning of the Second World War, all men of the village capable of military service were drafted into military service by the Yugoslav Army. After the surrender of the Yugoslav army, the German men switched to the Hungarian army, but were also called upon to volunteer for the SS. However, since this appeal was practically unsuccessful, all tangible men born between 1900 and 1924 were forcibly evicted. The youngest age groups were brought to Prague for basic training and then sent to the Eastern Front. Most of the older generation reported to the "Hipo" (auxiliary police) in order to avoid military service.
In April 1942 the 7th Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" was set up, to which all conscripted German men of Vojvodina from the age of 17 to 50 were drafted, provided they were not indispensable in agriculture. With the establishment of the "Prinz Eugen", Himmler dropped the "racial selection" and the "voluntariness principle" for the Waffen SS for the first time. The Prinz Eugen Division operated mainly in Bosnia and Serbia, which is why their soldiers were later declared traitors to the country by the Yugoslav government.
In March 1945, the non-fled Obrovac population was driven from their homes by the partisans and taken to the penal camps there in Gakovo and Kruševlje . After a few months, most of them died of starvation there. Among the 193 fatalities in the village, those who perished in the deportation of civilians from the Banat and Batschka to the Soviet Union carried out by the Tito regime in 1944/45 are also taken into account.
economy
Until 1950 there was a large brick factory (Lotspeich & Busch) with up to 80 workers, which supplied the entire region with bricks. As early as 1940, the bricks were fired in what was then a very advanced ring kiln.
Surroundings
Only a few kilometers away is the Karadjordjevo State Stud, which was used as a demonstration object for state guests in Tito's time and is now a tourist attraction . The adjacent hunting area is also known.