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Batschka, The fruitful land between the Danube & the Theiß
By Josef Schramm The region in the middle of the Danube came under Hapsburg ownership at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. At the time wide stretches of the land were swampy and almost devoid of people. The emperor in Vienna wanted to see this stretch of land in the neighborhood of the Turkish border settled and called on people of different nations under the dominion of the crown. Families and clans came from the present day lands of France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and besides that accepted refugees from Turkey: Croatia and Serbia. The people must first create their new homeland through hard work. The consciousness of these achievements connected the south Pannonian people, completely the same as the language or religion they belonged to. The Hungarian speaking people called their new homeland “Délvidék” and considered themselves as a new branch of Hungarians. The Slovakian speaking people called the land “Vojvodina” and themselves “Vojvodjani”. The German speaking people formed the new branch of Germans called the Donauschwaben. These three groups determined the economical, cultural, and political life of the south Pannonians. The political leadership lay at times with one, at times with the others. Like in the other Donauschwaben settlement regions, people also lived in the Batschka until World War II peacefully next to each other. Then began the days in which all people between the Danube and the Theiß have suffered and the Donauschwaben were the actual victims of the national hate. Continued reading regarding "The Land and Batschka, Climate & Bodies of Water. Last Updated: August 29, 2011 New . . . "Bei den Deutschen in der Batschka" (The Germans in the Batschka) 1933, Gustav Buchheim (Author/Editor). Article from Magazine: "Durch alle Welt" - Publisher: Peter J. Oestergaard Verlag, Berlin, 1933. [17 Sep 2008]
DVHH Lookups Guide: Hans Kopp - Batschsentiwan Settlers List 1764 to 1768 By Dr. Anton Tafferner “Heimatbuch Batschsentiwan” [18 Oct 2010] DVHH Lookups Guide: Hans Kopp - Batschsentiwan Settlers Street Directory - by year, name and house number listed by street name. By Dr. Anton Tafferner “Heimatbuch Batschsentiwan” [18 Oct 2010] Batschka Biographies additions: Dennis J. Bauer [13 Jul 2010] DVHH Lookups Guide: Gabriele Steger - Legin (Rigitza, Ridjica, etc): Familienbuch Ridjica, Batschka, 1804-1943 by Michael Hutfluss [08 Apr 2010] DVHH Lookups Guide: Gabriele Steger - Kruschiwl (Krusevlje, etc): Familienbuch Kruschiwl, Batschka, 1826 (1763)-1943 by Gertrud and Johann Schnaterbeck. [08 Apr 2010] Batsch-Sentiwan Fasching Photo Vesna Ibrahimovic-Brbaklic of Sombor (Vojvodina) Serbia, Village Coordinator: Zombor / Sombor [23 Feb 2010] ~ web site coming soon! Jarek Village site (German) www.hog-jarek.de Contact: Inge Morgenthaler
Ludwig Keck goes online
with the new DVHH Schowe
Village Site
www2.dvhh.org/schowe Ludwig Keck, of GA - USA, Village Coordinator: Schowe [06 April 2009] Boris Masic, of Apatin, Serbia joins Beth Tolfree as Apatin Village Coordinator. (German correspondence only, please) [17 Mar 2009]
Portions of the Bulkes Heimatbuch, 1984 [11 Oct 2008] DVHH Lookups Guide: Conny Eberhardt - Familien und Ortssippenbuch (Family & Village book) of Zabalj / Josefsforf [28 Jul 2008] Franz Eisenhut - Artist of Palanka, Batschka Haigermoos - Camp, Remembrances of my Time in Austria by Adam Martini, translation by Trentoner Donauschwaben Nachrichten Newsletter staff Palankaers in attendance at our 51st Trenton Donauschwaben Anniversary Dinner on 14 October 2007 |
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