Plužac

The rivers Pecka and Jadar flow through the village area . Plužac is located on the right bank of the Jadar River on a ridge that delimits the two river valleys of the Jadar and Tamnava , in Opština Osečina , in Okrug Kolubara in western central Serbia in western Podgorina , a historical region.

View of a farm in the village with a flock of sheep

The left bank of the Jadar, which flows through the village from the west, also belongs to the village area, but is uninhabited, as the Pecka, coming from the south from the Medvednik mountains from the Podrinje - Okrug, flows into the Jadar there.

The houses of the village lie on partly uneven steep slopes and hills, which are partly separated by smaller gorges, above the rivers of the Jadar and the Pecka, whereby there are also flat areas on the Jadarlauf, at the river mouth of the Pecka and at the Ostružanjska Reka . There are also many smaller streams and springs in the village, most of which bear the names of the surrounding hamlets.

Field and forest in autumn with a view of a hamlet of Plužac

The land in the flatter areas is very fertile and used for agriculture and cattle breeding, while in the more hilly areas, on the foothills of the south side of the slopes, the soil is rather dry and hardly any agriculture is practiced there. There are large deciduous forests around the village .

The village had 517 inhabitants at the 2011 census, compared to just 463 in 2002. The village is growing in population. The place consists of 152 households.

The population is made up of Serbs . The village is of the scattered settlement type , consisting of several small hamlets, the Maleševići , Baćukići and Nedeljkovići , which together form the two large hamlets Gornja and Donja Mala .

Demographics

year	population
1948	964
1953	940
1961	906
1971	823
1981	736
1991	532
2002	463
2011	517

history

Plužac is a very old village, it is mentioned in the first half of the 17th century . It used to be north of the Jadar river near the town of Osečina and was considered a hamlet of this. The old Serbian Orthodox church of the town today was located in the area of the village and was called: Plužačka crkva . This church was destroyed several times by the Turks and rebuilt by the city's residents. Over the years, the village shifted more and more to the south and today's independent village emerged at its current location.

Legend about the origin of the village name

There is a folk legend about the village name: Plužac used to be a hamlet in the town of Osečina. And at the place of today's village there was a large swamp called Bostan. One day when some residents of Plužac were tilling fields with oxen near the swamp , the animals were frightened by the women who brought the farmers the food and ran into the swamp with the plow and drowned. When, after a few years, the Jadar flooded the swamp, the plow was driven to the place of today's village. And that's how Plužac got its name.

The monastery church of the Plužac monastery, consecrated to St. Tsar Constantine and St. Tsarina Helena

religion

The local population is committed to the Serbian Orthodox Church . The newly built Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Tsar Constantine and Tsarina Helena , which was elevated to a monastery in 2011 , also known as Manastir Plužac, is located in Plužac.

The current abbot of the monastery is Danilo (Jokić). The monastery is part of the Podgorina Deanery of the Valjevo Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church. So far it is the only monastery in the deanery and the municipality of Osečina.

The slava of the village is Ascension Day (Spasovdan). Plužac has a Serbian Orthodox village cemetery.

supporting documents

Information about the monastery on the website of the Eparchy Valjevo , (Serbian)
Information about the village on the page poreklo.rs , (Serbian)
Књига 9, Становништво, упоредни преглед броја становника 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, мај 2004, ISBN 86-84433-14-9
Књига 1, Становништво, национална или етничка припадност, подаци по насељима, Репувништво, Репувништво, Репунак, Бурорс33, ISBN , .86,

Књига 2, Становништво, пол и старост, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за стататистику, Беогеима, ISBN 86, Стататистику,