Village
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Village
Names:
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Official: |
Apatin |
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German: |
Abthausen |
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Hungarian: |
Apatin |
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other: |
Apathin, Upathin, Apati, Nagyarki |
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Location:
In the Serbian province of Vojvodina, southwest of
Sombor, approximately 30 km south of the Hungarian
border on the
banks of the Danube.
Geographical Map
Village Statistics:
Earliest Appearance in
History: 1011 A.D.
Earliest German Settlement: 1337
German Settlement: 1749
Population (Germans): 2004:
20,000 (600)
1921: 13,435 (12,252)
1910: 13,136 (11,661)
1880: 11,973 (10,668) |
Village Street Map
click map to enlarge & then a second time.
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Apatin Crest
"A sketch showing that part of the
Fernbach von Apatin coat-of-arms that came to symbolize Apatin
itself. Sheaves of wheat over a sunny sky with a ship and
fishes below indicating the richness of the land." |
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FHL
microfilm numbers: 638035 – 638044
Church records from 1826-1895 available on
microfilm.
FHL microfilm numbers: 638035 - 638044
Roman
Catholic, Diocese of Kalocsa
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
See Apatin Lookup Volunteers and the books they have at:
The Apatin books I have are listed there and I
also have:
Stefan Stader's Sammelwerk donauschwabischer Kolonisten, Vol. II - V
only (E-G), (H-Kap), (Kar-L), (M-O)
Villages
in the Apatin
municipality and available genealogical records:
Batsch-Sentiwan (German)
Priglewitz (German)
Sonnhofen
(German)
BacsSentiwan
(German)
Bácsszentiván /
Bacsszentivan (Hungarian)
Szentiván /
Szentivan (Hungarian)
Úrszentiván /
Urszentivan (Hungarian)
Priglevica Sveti Ivan (Other)
SzentIvan (Other)
Sveti Ivan (Other)
Sentiwan (Other)
Priglevica (Other)
Preigevica Sveti (Other)
Sankt Johann an der Schanze (Other)
Batschsentiwan (Other)
Prigrevica Sveti Ivan,
Yugoslavia / Serbia (Official)
Waldau (German)
Szond (Hungarian)
Szonta (Hungarian)
Belsö-Szond /
Belso-Szond (Other)
Külsö-Szond /
Kulso-Szond (Other)
Kis-Szond (Other)
Nagy-Szonta (Other)
Sonta,
Yugoslavia / Serbia (Official)
Szilágyi /
Szilagyi (Hungarian)
Svilojevo,
Yugoslavia / Serbia (Official)
Kupuszina
(Hungarian)
Bacskertes / Bácskertes
(Hungarian)
Kupusina
(Serbian) Official
Village Heimatortsgemeinschaften (HOG):
(H.O.G. – an organization of former residents) The
new President of the Apatin H.O.G. is:
Adam Mayer
Bgm. Böhmerstr, 70
D-962264, Bildstelle
I believe it is necessary to write him in
German.
www.apatin.de
Website of Hans
Quintus, born in Apatin, includes photos made in Apatin and his
family information.
General
information:
Apatin was the largest German colony in
the Batschka and was the main base for German expansion in Vojvodina.
Apatin prospered in the 18th and early 19th centuries through trade,
handcrafts and shipbuilding. In 1756 a brewery, which still exists today,
was constructed; and one of the largest textile workshops was build in
1764. Many banks and savings institutions had been established by 1869, and
as many as thirty-six brickyards existed at one time. A railroad connected
the city to Sombor and Sonta in 1912 and the shipyard was established in
1913.
Pre-WWI Hungary’s southern border extended to
Belgrade. Apatin was in the Hungarian county (megye) of Bacs Bodrog. With the
1920 Treaty of Trianon this area was ceded to the Kingdom of Serbs, later
becoming part of Yugoslavia, which splintered in 1991.
After WWII, Swabian Germans were killed,
expelled or often interned in camps in Serbia or Russia. Camps near Apatin were
Gakowa and Kruschiwl.
Today there are six hundred ethnic Germans
remaining in Apatin.
Batschka Arts & Literature
www.dvhh.org/batschka/literature/index.htm
Map of the 1795 flood in Apatin.....the
area inundated by flood waters is shown in red.
Deutscher Bürgerverein Adam Berenz
/ German Citizens
Association
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