Voiteg

Voiteg Woiteg Vojtek, Vejte
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Timiș
Coordinates :	45 ° 28 '  N , 21 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 28 '14 "  N , 21 ° 14' 14"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	88  m
Area :	69.62  km²
Residents :	2,437 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	307470
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 56
License plate :	TM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Voiteg, Folea
Mayor :	Tudor-Nicolae Marinescu ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 114 loc. Voiteg, jud. Timiș, RO-307470
Website :	www.primariavoiteg.ro

Location of Voiteg in Timiș County

Voiteg on the Josephine land survey (1769–1772)

Voiteg ( German  Woiteg , Hungarian Vojtek or Vejte ) is a municipality in Timiș County , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania , about 36 kilometers south of Timișoara ( Timisoara ). The place is connected to Timișoara via the European route 70 . In addition, the railway line from Timișoara to Belgrade runs through Voiteg.

Neighboring places

Ciacova	Jebel	favorite
Ghilad		Gătaia
Banloc	Deta	Birda

etymology

Over the centuries there were different spellings of the name: Vejte, Veytech, Veytsch, Wejtech, Wech and Veycech, Woiteg, Wojteg, Woitek, Wojtek, Voitek, Voiteg .

The train station outside the town is called Voiteni .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1328, in the time of the Hungarian King Karl Robert , under the name Veytech , as the property of Teodor Veytey . Until the 15th century, the noble seat was in the hands of the Veytey family. At the time of King Sigismund , however, unrest occurred in the country. The king wanted to reward his faithful and gave them all the goods that were confiscated by the agitators. The von Veytey family's estates were also confiscated. The king donated their goods to the Banus of Szöreny, Lorenz Majus, by means of a deed of donation dated March 30, 1410 . In 1437 the property came into the hands of the landowners Valentin Karay and Benedikt Sümegi under King Albrecht of Austria . During the reign of Johann Hunyadis , Veytey came into the possession of the Hagymasi von Beregsau .

On July 21, 1718, peace was made with the Turks in Passarowitz . Through this peace the Banat came under the rule of the Austrian Emperor Charles VI. At the first conscription and geographical land survey, which was made by Count Mercy , the place consisted of only 28 huts, which were inhabited by Romanians. The Romanians called the place Voiteg . Under this name it was then also included in the map made by Count Mercy. When the village was rebuilt according to plan in 1776, many house spaces remained empty and that is why Josef Brigido von Bresowitz, as state president, gave the order to direct German settlers to the empty spaces. The German immigrants came from the neighboring towns of Charleville , St. Hubert , Soltour , Orzydorf , Gottlob , Bogarosch and the like. a.

On June 4, 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon . The largest, eastern part, to which Wojteg also belonged, fell to Romania.

As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler's Germany , all men of German origin who were conscripted into the German army. Before the end of the war, in January 1945, all ethnic German women between the ages of 18 and 30 and men between the ages of 16 and 45 were deported to the Soviet Union for reconstruction work . The Land Reform Act of March 23, 1945 , which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, deprived the rural population of their livelihoods. Through the nationalization law of June 11, 1948 , which provided for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial enterprises, banks and insurance companies, the expropriation of all economic enterprises took place regardless of ethnicity.

On June 18, 1951, all "unreliable elements" were deported to the Bărăgan steppe, regardless of ethnicity. The village, which was co-built and inhabited by the Wojtegers in Baragan, consisted of around 800 thatched roof houses and was given the name Giurgieni Noi, later renamed Rachitoasa. When the Bărăgan displaced people returned home in 1956, they got back the houses and farms that had been expropriated in 1945, but the land ownership was collectivized .

Agricultural school Vojteg

In 1927 the German Agricultural School was built in Wojteg . Here the farmer sons of the whole Banat were trained to be farmers. The school was founded as a stock corporation with the contribution of thousands of Banat Swabian farmers: In 1927, a share worth 1000 lei was equivalent to the value of 100 kg of wheat.

80 years after the founding of the German Agricultural School in Wojteg, this traditional Banat school was restored and opened in a festive setting on June 13, 2007 as a German-Romanian center for agricultural specialist training and further education . The supporting company of this educational center includes the Timisoara University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine with Rector Cosmin Alin Popescu , the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat, a subdivision of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania , and DEULA Baden-Württemberg GmbH with Rüdiger Heining . This project could be realized with the support of the state of Baden-Württemberg , the then Prime Minister Erwin Teufel and the Agriculture Ministers Willi Stächele and Peter Hauk and the German consuls in Timisoara, Klaus Peter Marte and Rolf Maruhn 2001-2007. The total investment was 14.3 billion lei (485,000 euros), with the German side contributing 150,000 euros to the funds of the Romanian government. The education center has a modern, appropriately equipped school building with 554 hectares of land. The model for this is the experienced German partner, the DEULA training center for agricultural and environmental technology from Kirchheim near Stuttgart. The school is headed by Ciprian George Fora , who also teaches as Professor of Phytopathology and Entomology at the Agricultural and Veterinary University of the Banat.

Personalities

• Helmuth Frauendorfer (* 1959), writer
• Karl Fritz Lauer (1938–2018) Romanian-German agricultural scientist and initiator of the rebuilding of the school from the German side
• Păun Otiman (* 1942), Romanian agricultural and economic scientist and initiator of the rebuilding of the school from the Romanian side

See also

• List of German and Hungarian names of Romanian places
• List of localities in the Banat

literature

• Anni Engelmann: Woiteg, Wojteg, Vojtek, Woitek, Voiteg: History of a Banat community , hometown community Woiteg, 1993, ISBN 973-9602223 .
• Elke Hoffmann, Peter-Dietmar Leber and Walter Wolf : The Banat and the Banat Swabians. Volume 5. Cities and Villages , Media Group Universal Grafische Betriebe Munich, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-922979-63-7 .

Web links

• Website City of Voiteg
• Voiteg in the web presentation of the Timiș County Council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
3. ↑ website of the agricultural school Voijteg