Danube Swabian of

 in Banat 

Welcome to the homepage of Weisskirchen,
today is known as Bela Crkva, a municipality of Yugoslavia/Serbia. 

Information | Records & Reference | Links | Contact

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Village Name Variants

• German: Weißkirchen
• Official: Bela Crkva
• Hungarian: Fehértemplom

Location

• Yugoslavia
• 60km E of Pantschowa

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• Village name in FHL records: Weisskirchen, Fehertemplom
• Church records available at FHL: Christenings 1723-1822, Marriages 1724-1817,
  Deaths 1724-1831
• FHL Microfilm Nr. 0858411, 0858412; also 3 duplicate films
  (1271634, 1271635, 127636) which, though pages are out of order,
  may contain more information
• Founded: by Germans 1718, another group in 1763
• Location of a a prisoner camp for Germans held by Partisans during World War II.

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Weisskirchen German Site

Emigration from Banat in the National Archives Ship Records Extractions
by David Dreyer

Bela Crkva Website loads of info, English version

Bela Crkva, Music Traditional melodies from this area

Quotes about Weisskirchen:

"Prinz Eugen" SS Division, 1941-1945"  The staff of the Division was located in Pancevo and its 1st Regiment at Weisskirchen, Austria.

Ethnic Germans in the Banat: Forgotten — Yet Timely—History By Stefan Bastius. "During the revolutionary fights of 1848 in Werschetz, Pantschowa, Weisskirchen and also near Temesvar until the defeat of the rebellious Hungarians at Vilagos on August 13, 1849, the Swabians were on the side of the Hungarians—thus, against the Austrians. Vienna, obviously afraid of Hungarian nationalism, preferred to take the Swabians as allies, without discerning the consequences that would follow." read more .......

1846 - 1847:   Construction of stretch of railroad between Orawitza -Rakasdia - Weisskirchen -Basias is begun. Work is interrupted in 1848, continued in 1850 and completed in 1855. Opened in 1858.  (quote from A Potted History of the Village of Gross Jetscha by Norbert Neidenbach)

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Village Coordinator: Catherine Fortin  

If you have information about Weisskirchen and/or if you would like to add information for your Weisskirchen family, please contact me.