Welcome to the Land Between Two Rivers

"in der BATSCHKA"

Batsch-Brestowatz

Karawukowa

Hodschag

Doroslo

Milititisch

Batschsentiwan

Stapar

This map was a fold-out in the program from the 1958 bi-annual "Tag der Donauschwaben in Ulm," the place where many of the German settlers began their journey down the Danube to reach their new homeland in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Batchka can easily be found "Between Two Rivers" -- the Danube and the Tzisa.

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Western BATSCHKA

Here is a satellite image of the region. On the left the Blue Danube can be clearly seen as it flows south, forming the eastern border and taking a sharp bend to the east (the border is a yellow line, so it appears green at this point).

Several villages which are the subject of this website can be clearly seen: Stapar, Brestowatz, Karawukowa, Hodschag (Odzaci). Also please note some of the other adjoining villages; Apatin on the river's edge southwest of Sombor; Palanka & Novi Sad to the south; Fekitish (Feketic) and Kula in the central region.

Village Coordinator

My name is Nancy Fredenberg and I am pleased to be your host and DVHH Village Coordinator for these seven former Danube Swabian villages in western Batschka, now a part of Serbia, and within the autonomous region known as Vojvodina.

I hope you will make these pages your own by sharing your stories and photos with other researchers. Who knows, you may find a cousin -- I have! I am not an expert; just a family researcher, as yourself, so hopefully we can discover together this land of our Donauschwaben ancestors and learn more about the lives they led; their joys as well as their many sorrows.

Check back as the site grows village by village. I hope you will contact me to register your surnames, or if you have any information or photographs you would like to contribute. I hope to help you in your genealogical pursuit, as others have helped me.

Nancy Fredenberg