Stanišic
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Stanišić is a village in Serbia
. It is situated in the Sombor
municipality, in the West Bačka District
, Vojvodina
province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,808 people (2002 census).
, the village is known as Stanišić or Станишић, in German
as Stanischitsch, Stanischitz, Tannenschütz, Tannischitz, Tanaschitz or Donauwachenheim, in Croatian
as Stanišić, in Hungarian
as Őrszállás, and in Bunjevac
as Stanišić.
in the municipality of Sombor
, about 7 miles from the Hungarian border between Riđica, Gakovo
, Svetozar Miletić
and Aleksa Šantić. It is located just on the edge of the great land-plateau called Telečka
(Telečka lesna zaravan) about 91 meters above the sea level. Some minor parts of the village are about 1 meter lower being in the terrain beside the land-plateau.
In the times prior to the 18th and 19th centuries the whole area beside the plateau (towards Kruševlje
and Gakovo
) was in fens, morasses and swampy meadows, especially in the raining seasons, and thus inconvenient for settling. Stanišić was founded just at the edge of these two landmarks. The lower ground was populated by Serbs in 1763 and the upper by Germans in 1786 and by 1811 both villages were united in one. The surrounding area is a great Pannonian Plate without any hills, woods or rivers. In later periods small, tiny channels and drainages were built beside the village just to take off all the waters from the yards, meadows and gardens in the lower parts of the village.
, and it was mentioned in 1339. Another place, written down as Bathteremlye appears in 1342, and another one named Paris and Paris falu meaning the village of Parish appears in 1366. In 1412, a place named again as Bathteremlye was mentioned as an estate of János Maróti. Actually, there is no historical evidence that these places were in fact the same place, but they are at least proof that this area was inhabited even in the Middle Ages
, if not even earlier. There is also some confusion about the exact location of these settlements, because the old charts are not at all precise. But, it is possible that their location was about half a mile or so to the south.
There is also no evidence of any inhabitants in this area. They could have been Hungarians or Serbs, as this area was a part of the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary
from the early 11th Century until 1526, when the Turks conquered it and expelled most of its former population to the north. Parish was not recorded in 1520, but it was mentioned in 1554, 1570 and again in 1578 having 17 Turkish and 9 Serb families. It was registered in 1712 for the last time.
In 1658 this area was written down as puszta, meaning in Hungarian
only a wasted, deserted land and belonging to Baron Pál Serényi. As the Turks were defeated and banished from these parts of Pannonian plain in 1687, the new Austrian authorities populated this area with Serbs
, Bunjevci
and Hungarians, but there is again no evidence that Stanišić was settled down. The name of Stanišić (Stanicic) was recorded in 1635 and it was a depopulated place, since in 1598 all Serb population from that area emigrated to Esztergom
in Hungary
. It is recorded again in 1717 and 1720, but again as puszta. It is possible, that some Serb soldiers of the military border have been living in or near Stanišić between 1720 and 1746. As the military border was abolished in 1746, they moved away and in 1746 Stanišić was called puszta again.
The nearest town was Sombor
, about 11 miles to the south, developing as a county center. Some old settlements were repopulated with Serbs, Hungarians and Bunjevci after 1690 and in the early 18th century close to today's Stanišić position, such as Sombor
, Riđica, Bački Breg
, Monoštor, Šari (near Aleksa Šantić
), Gara
, Dávod
, Nagybaracska
, Hercegszántó
, Katymár
, Csátalja
, Csávoly
, Bácsbokod
(Bikity), Bácsborsód
, Bácsalmás
, Tavankut
, Bajmok
, Đurić, Đurđin, Rančevo, etc. Other places, which are nearer to Stanišić, were settled later by German colonists, such as Kolut
in 1757, Gakovo
in 1763-67, Kruševlje in 1765-67 and Svetozar Miletić in 1748-52 by Hungarians and Bunjevci. Again in 1746 the whole area surrounding today's Stanišić was called puszta and a part of the Trench of Sombor (Somborski šanac) serving just for cattle-pasture. Baron Gyula Redl, who got the pusta Stanišić to its estate, populated it with some 152 Hungarian and Slovak families from the neighbouring villages in 1752.
families from Svetozar Miletić
have settled down in Stanišić in 1752 and again in 1754, but most of them remained there only temporarily. As early as 1749, some Serb families might have been there as well, as they had just been turned out of the village of Bukin, which German
colonists had ordered to be settled down.
Certainly, the greatest group of Serbs came beginning with the year of 1763 and continued to settle there for the next two decades. That year of 1763 is considered as the founding year. The immigrating population was of Serb origin, coming from the neighbouring villages of Dávod
(Dautovo) and Nagybaracska
(Baračka) (some 15 miles to the Northwest, now in Hungary
), where they have been settled down as refugees from Serbia
in the 1690s. As the great German colonisation of these parts of the Habsburg Empire began in 1763, most of Slavic population was ordered to be resettled to the areas called puszta, releasing so places for German and Hungarian settlers, who came in state-colonization. Anton von Cothmann, the Director of the Imperial Estates in this area and the Chief-Commissioner for colonization visited this land in 1763 and ordered Puszta Krusivle (Kruševlje
), Priglewitz (Prigrevica
), Kernei (Krnjaja / Kljajićevo
) and Puszta Gakowa (Gakovo
) to be settled down by Germans. The village of Kolut
was already populated in 1757, and Apatin
in 1749. The villages of Dávod
and Nagybaracska
were populated by Hungarians. The Serb population was forced to move in Brestovac
, Stapar
, Sivac
, Deronje
, Parabuć (now Ratkovo), Riđica and Stanišić. So, in 1763 Stanišić was founded by Serb families from Nagybaracska
and Dávod
. The following year, 1764, another groups of Serbs from Prigrevica
and Bokčenović came in, as well as in 1766 from Karavukovo
. Some Serbian families came also in the coming years from the nearby villages of Hercegszántó
(Santovo), Đurić, Gara
, etc. Anton von Cothman visited the village in 1763 and in 1764 supervising German colonisation of Gakovo
and Kruševlje
. He was the first person who ever recorded the village name Stanišić being there. He drew a map of the village, showing in 1764 about 50 small houses, located just beside the great road from Baja
to Petrovaradin
, two great fens beside them and at the end wrote the name Sztanesity below it. As he could not speak the Serbian language
, he spelled it therefore wrongly. The inhabitants called their new settlement Stanišić .
According to lore, the name originated when the settlers were a long way into unknown area, walking on foot, thirsty, hungry and tired of truck-hauling, and pleading their leader to stop for a while just to take some rest. They shouted Halt, old man! (in Serbian
: "Stani, čiča!"), This place is good enough for us!. He had done so, but not earlier than they had arrived on suitable land. So, from the words Stani čiča they called their new home firstly Staničič , which soon became more easily for pronunciation like Stanišić. This story might have been happened even earlier, because this village name was recorded firstly in 1654. Officially, it was also recorded under this name in 1832 (Hungarian: Sztanisity). Its villagers always called it so. The Hungarian authorities changed it officially to Őrszállás in 1904. As a part of Yugoslavia
and Serbia
from 1918, the original name was never changed, except during the Hungarian occupation in the World War II
(1941–44). However, the Germans who settled here in 1786 and later, pronounced it Stanischitsch or Stanischitz (or just more common as Tannischitz), as a more suitable form for them. Attempts of Pro-Nazi orientated Germans to change the village name around 1935-36 (as a future part of germanisation of the area) to Donau-Wachenheim, Deutsch-Wachenheim, Steinsitz, Tannenschütz were only bad mistranslations of its original name, and never commonly accepted, not even amongst themselves. Stanišić (German: Stanischitsch) was and remained Stanišić.
In those early years the communion of Stanišić numbered about 50 families. In 1772, a Serbian Orthodox church
was built in the middle of the village, it still exists on the same spot. In 1768, 88 families were recorded, all farmers and cattle-breeders. A few German families moved to Stanišić about 1770 from Gakovo
and Kruševlje
. Some years later, in 1782, the first Catholic parish was founded, gathering only a few Hungarian, German
and Slovak
Catholic families. In 1782 the second great colonization began, this time organized under emperor Joseph II
. Only in Bačka
region, 15 villages were founded or repopulated until 1787. Stanišić was one of them. In 1786, some 100 German families from a few years earlier established places like Csátalja
, Gakovo
, Kruševlje
, Kolut
and Nemesnádudvar
settled down in Stanišić. They originated from Lorraine
, Rhineland-Palatinate
and Saar region. They built 100 new houses during that summer of 1788 about 200 meters on the eastern, upper grounds than the Serb village existed. The newly built thump-houses were put in two lines with three blocks (one of them left for the church) making the first street (called by Germans Gasse, the future Kirchen Gasse). The new village was proclaimed a separate municipality from the Serb one, and thus called Neu Stanischitz ("New Stanišić"). Stanišić developed very fast and soon became one of the greater villages in the county.
Between 1790 and 1830 (especially between 1812 and 1820) more than 150 new German families moved to Stanišić, mainly from Csátalja
(County of Baja
, nowadays in Hungary). The number of Serb families decreased, and the number of German families increased from 120 in 1790 to 400 in 1830. About 500 new houses were built until 1830. Also about 45 Hungarian and about 25 Slovak families settled in Stanišić until 1830, however, many of them soon adopted German language, culture and customs and declared themselves as Germans. The total population of Stanišić numbered 2,200 people in 1790 and about 4,600 in 1830. It was more than doubled. In 1790 there was 53% Serbs, 40% Germans and 7% Hungarians, Slovaks and others. But, in 1830 the majority were Germans with 58%, followed with 26% Serbs, 14% Hungarians, 1.5% Jews. The Slovaks declared themselves already by 1830 as Germans or as Slovaks. So, from the early 19th century the German population dominated Stanišić. A great step forward was made in 1811, when both Serb and German parts of village were united in one and Stanišić was proclaimed a market-place by Emperor Franz I. It meant, that Stanišić was allowed to held a market what was a great improvement compared to other villages in the county.
The total number of German civil casualties was at least 923 or 15% of its pre-war population, which numbered about 5,800. Of that number, 520 were civil victims of death-camps in Yugoslavia, and some 160 of Russian labour camps, killings and torture, and 242 were listed as war victims. The deaths were registered in following camps: 171 person died in Gakova, 100 in Krusevlje, 103 in Stanischitsch itself, 43 in Sremska Mitrovica, 14 in Sombor, 2 in Miletic, 2 in Rudolfsgnad, 8 in Jarek, 1 in Karlsdorf, 1 in Karavukovo, and 1 in Bajmok. More than 52 soldiers died as prisoners-of-war in Russia. There were only 181 (~3%) Germans registered in Stanischitsch on March 31, 1948.
Some Croat families living since 1945/46, are not listed nowadays any more, because they moved away, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s or later, like: Blašković, Brkljača, Buljan, Bulčić, Buva, Grga, Sinica, Jurko, Guslov, Punda, Gracin, Grgurinović, Lučić, Jakus, Sonko, Franić, Šimara, Ujević, Marčina, Vicko, Puharić, Tičinović, etc. A great number of Croatian families moved to Croatia and third countries during the war in Croatia (1991–1995) like : Sinica, Jukić, Katović, Bračulj, Jerković, Čota, Delić, Lokas, Ban, Lovrić etc.
Albrecht, Amann, Amon, Angeli, Arnold, Bach, Bajer (and Bayer), Bauer, Beck, Benz, Becker, Beer, Beller, Bergmann, Binder, Bischof, Bohner, Bokum, Bleilinger, Bretträger, Büchinger, Born, Brand, Brandecker, Brenner, Bruckner, Bruder, Bucher, Butterer, Danninger, Deutsch, Eberhard, Eder, Eimer, Einwiller (and Eiwiller),Eisenhut, Elmer, Engländer, Englerth, Fabian, Federer, Feider, Fessler, Feth, Feurer, Fischer, Fischer, Fischler, Feirer, Feldes, Fiederer, Fisterer, Fisterer, Fleischer, Folkemer, Gantner, Gärtner, Gauder, Ginal, Ginter, Geisinger, Guder, Haas, Haberbusch, Halbländer, Harti, Hauth, Harembach, Heck, Hech, Heller, Helmer, Heckenberger, Hermann, Holzer, Hochrei, Horei, Horren, Huber, Häfner, Heft, Hegert, Högert, Heichele, Heitz, Helfrich, Hemeli, Hängen, Hertzl, Hetrich, Hingl, Hirschschläger, Hubert, Hummel, Hutfluss, Hönner, Hören, Illi (Illich), Imhoff, Jennowein, Jost, Jung, Kapp, Karbach, Kegler, Kemmer, Keil, Kehl, Keiner, Keinrad, Kekler, Keller, Kersch, Kien, Kirschner, Klaus, Klein, Kleiner, Klemm, Konz, Koller, Kopping, Kokus, Kraus, Kremm, Kristmann, Kuntzer, Kutsch, Kuehn, Lackner, Lang, Langbein, Laubach, Lauth, Leml, Licht, Litzenberger, Landgraf, Letscher, Lewang, Litzinger, Majer (and Mayer), Martin, Matheis, Meilern, Mendler, Merkler, Merli, Mesch, Melem, Mönich, Müller, Muskath, Nägele, Naunheimer, Neubert, Nuber, Nuspl, Oberth, Ollmann, Osfielt, Ospelt, Oswald, Ottenheimer, Ottental, Pechlof, Peller, Pleli, Postpischl, Potz, Penninger, Penz, Pfeffer, Pinter, Pisli, Prisslinger, Pump, Quintus, Rang, Rau, Richter, Rapp, Rauh, Reichhardt, Reiner, Reinhofer, Reitz, Rendl, Rettig, Rickert, Risbeck, Rosmann and Rossmann, Rosmanitz, Roth, Röckl, Schaman, Schamberger, Schauer, Scherk, Schira, Schlemmer, Schlotzer, Schmidt, Schultheis, Schweigl, Schwemmlein, Schäfer, Schönhöfer, Seite, Seitz, Semlitsch, Settele, Sibler, Sickinger, Spaltenberger, Speer, Staller, Steger, Steiner, Stertz, Strahl, Sauer, Schnaderbeck, Schneider, Schnitzer, Schopper, Spamberger, Spreitzer, Strigl, Sujer, Stöckl, Thebert, Thes, Tiesler, Titz, Trommler, Tscheng (or Tschenk), Tuschter, Uli, Ulmer, Umstädter, Urnauer, Urtheil, Usleber, Weber, Weichner, Weigand, Weiland, Welchner, Wenner, Wolf, Weiner, Weiss, Werner, Wettstein, Wetzstein, Wettstein, Wiragh, Wieland, Witsch, Wohlfahrt, Wölfl, Zips, Zisler or Ziesler, etc.
German family names not listed in 1940, but living after 1786 include:
Astleber, Bammer, Bauholzter, Baumgartner, Barl, Bittel, Berger, Brill, Bürkel, Distler, Dosinger, Ehrhardt, Elkinger, Enstele, Felgel, Friederer, Friedrich, Fuchs, Gräber, Grilhauer, Grünfelder, Halbig, Harthe, Hausmann, Hembe, Hendler, Herstenberger, Hinkel, Holzhauer, Horwath, Höger, Hwang, Huss, Jakoby, Jergur, Katty, Koriozathfinssky, Keppig, Kestler, Kern, Kiefer, Knitter, Krämer, Koth, Kumeringer, Lenbach, Locher, Mad, Maaß, Matz, Mayling, Mukesser, Naunehmer, Neubauer, Oberkirsch, Obermann, Ohrmann, Pastor, Paul, Pechlug, Peitz, Pfanholzer, Puhl, Ratzka, Reiter, Taufel, Teibl, Sauterer, Schaal, Schädele, Scher, Scherer, Schild, Schlott, Schmidt, Schilling, Schirosch, Schmack, Schnur, Schöpfhauser, Schweitzer, Seebald, Suttrer, Vorgrümter, Wagner, Wallentin, Wentzel, Weimann, Wihlzuhr, Wolfshobel, Zepf, etc.
Some of these families were listed before 1797, while others came between 1801–1813, or some years later, mostly from Csátalja
(Tschatali), Nemesnádudvar
and Hajós
in Hungary
(living there since the 1720s) and also from Gara
, Gakovo
, Kruševlje
, Katymár
, Kolut
, Bajmok
, Čonoplja
, Bácsbokod
, Bácsborsód
, Vaskút
, Csávoly
, Kunbaja
, etc.
More than 70 German families settled in Stanišić after 1850s or in the early 20th century, immigrating from the neighbouring villages. There were approximately 290 German family names living in about 1,410 households, stated in 1940. In 1946 about 50 German families were allowed to stay or return to village, because they were needed for all kinds of jobs. Some of them were: Kokus, Rohatsch, Spreitzer (Dr. Josef), Kuntzer, Mayer, Rosmanitz, Kuntzer, Litzinger, Schneider, Ritkasser, Frohlich, Ottenthal, etc. Nowadays, only a few German families remained in the village: Litzinger, Schneider, Schnaderbeck, Bretträger, Kuschel, Rosmanitz, Butterer, Rind, etc. In 2002, only 16 villagers listed themselves as Germans, and some others as Hungarians.
Some of the following family names were Germanized and those families listed themselves as German: Balogh (originally Hungarian), Buschanski (originally Slovak), Ferenz (originally Hungarian), Firitzki (originally Slovak), Gerescher (originally Hungarian), Juraditsch (originally Bunjevac), Kerescher (originally Hungarian), Kisialla (unknown origin), Kokus (originally French, spelled Cocus/Caquis), Kollar (originally Slovak), Kollitseh or Kollitschech (originally Slovak), Kosse (originally French, spelled Cosse), Lewang (originally French, spelled Le Vangue), Merli (originally Hungarian), Pleli (originally French, spelled Plailly), Ruppek (originally Slovak), Schira (originally French, spelled Chirat), Sekeresch (originally Hungarian), Semlitsch (originally Slovak), Settele (originally French, spelled Saitelet), Wiragh (originally Hungarian), Worlitschek (originally Slovak).
The list of family names is not complete because family names of temporary residents are not listed.
The most numerous families were: Eberhardt, Eimer, Fessler, Feth, Hauth, Heck, Lang, Litzinger, Mayer, Nuspl, Potz, Rendl, Rosmann, Weiner, Weber, Weiss, Wiragh, etc. All of them were settled in Stanišić before 1820.
The most frequent male names were: Adam, Andreas, Anton, Franz, Georg, Jakob, Johann, Josef, Karl, Lorenz, Martin, Matthias, Melchior, Michael, Nikolaus, Paul, Peter, Philipp, Stefan, and Wendelin. Tho most frequent female names were: Anna, Annamaria, Barbara, Christina, Franziska, Elisabeth, Eva, Gertrude, Hilde, Katharina, Maria, Magdalena, Margaretha, Sophia and Theresia.
(*) these families lived in Stanišić before 1945
(*) still living, but declare themselves as Hungarians
Most of Slovak families that settled in Stanišić were Germanized in the second or third generation, but after 1945, only those who listed themselves as the Hungarians could remain in the village.
Serbia
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. It is situated in the Sombor
Sombor
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municipality, in the West Bačka District
West Backa District
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, Vojvodina
Vojvodina
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province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,808 people (2002 census).
Name
In SerbianSerbian language
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, the village is known as Stanišić or Станишић, in German
German language
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as Stanischitsch, Stanischitz, Tannenschütz, Tannischitz, Tanaschitz or Donauwachenheim, in Croatian
Croatian language
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as Stanišić, in Hungarian
Hungarian language
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as Őrszállás, and in Bunjevac
Bunjevac language
The Bunjevac dialect or Bunjevac language is a Štokavian dialect used by members of the Bunjevci community. The speakers live in parts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia as well as in southern parts of Croatia. The speech has an exclusive Serbo-Croatian Ikavian reflex of the Common...
as Stanišić.
Geography
The village of Stanišić is located in the Northwestern part of SerbiaSerbia
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in the municipality of Sombor
Sombor
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, about 7 miles from the Hungarian border between Riđica, Gakovo
Gakovo
Gakovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 .-Name:...
, Svetozar Miletić
Svetozar Miletic
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and Aleksa Šantić. It is located just on the edge of the great land-plateau called Telečka
Telecka (region)
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(Telečka lesna zaravan) about 91 meters above the sea level. Some minor parts of the village are about 1 meter lower being in the terrain beside the land-plateau.
In the times prior to the 18th and 19th centuries the whole area beside the plateau (towards Kruševlje
Kruševlje
Kruševlje is a small settlement in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. It is mostly populated by Serbs.-Name:...
and Gakovo
Gakovo
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) was in fens, morasses and swampy meadows, especially in the raining seasons, and thus inconvenient for settling. Stanišić was founded just at the edge of these two landmarks. The lower ground was populated by Serbs in 1763 and the upper by Germans in 1786 and by 1811 both villages were united in one. The surrounding area is a great Pannonian Plate without any hills, woods or rivers. In later periods small, tiny channels and drainages were built beside the village just to take off all the waters from the yards, meadows and gardens in the lower parts of the village.
Early period prior to 1763
The earliest recorded settlement on this location was called Örs in HungarianHungarian language
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, and it was mentioned in 1339. Another place, written down as Bathteremlye appears in 1342, and another one named Paris and Paris falu meaning the village of Parish appears in 1366. In 1412, a place named again as Bathteremlye was mentioned as an estate of János Maróti. Actually, there is no historical evidence that these places were in fact the same place, but they are at least proof that this area was inhabited even in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
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, if not even earlier. There is also some confusion about the exact location of these settlements, because the old charts are not at all precise. But, it is possible that their location was about half a mile or so to the south.
There is also no evidence of any inhabitants in this area. They could have been Hungarians or Serbs, as this area was a part of the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
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from the early 11th Century until 1526, when the Turks conquered it and expelled most of its former population to the north. Parish was not recorded in 1520, but it was mentioned in 1554, 1570 and again in 1578 having 17 Turkish and 9 Serb families. It was registered in 1712 for the last time.
In 1658 this area was written down as puszta, meaning in Hungarian
Hungarian language
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only a wasted, deserted land and belonging to Baron Pál Serényi. As the Turks were defeated and banished from these parts of Pannonian plain in 1687, the new Austrian authorities populated this area with Serbs
Serbs
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, Bunjevci
Bunjevci
Bunjevci are a South Slavic community and ethnic group living mostly in the Bačka region of Serbia and southern Hungary...
and Hungarians, but there is again no evidence that Stanišić was settled down. The name of Stanišić (Stanicic) was recorded in 1635 and it was a depopulated place, since in 1598 all Serb population from that area emigrated to Esztergom
Esztergom
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in Hungary
Hungary
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. It is recorded again in 1717 and 1720, but again as puszta. It is possible, that some Serb soldiers of the military border have been living in or near Stanišić between 1720 and 1746. As the military border was abolished in 1746, they moved away and in 1746 Stanišić was called puszta again.
The nearest town was Sombor
Sombor
Sombor is a city and municipality located in northwest part of Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina. The city has a total population of 48,749 , while the Sombor municipality has 87,815 inhabitants...
, about 11 miles to the south, developing as a county center. Some old settlements were repopulated with Serbs, Hungarians and Bunjevci after 1690 and in the early 18th century close to today's Stanišić position, such as Sombor
Sombor
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, Riđica, Bački Breg
Backi Breg
Bački Breg is a village located in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.Bački Breg is in the very northwest of Serbia, on an important highway linking Serbia and Hungary together...
, Monoštor, Šari (near Aleksa Šantić
Aleksa Šantic
Aleksa Šantić was a Serb poet from Herzegovina.He was born and lived most his life in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a province that was occupied by Austria-Hungary in 1878 and annexed by them in 1908...
), Gara
Gara
Gara is a bilingual newspaper published in the city of San Sebastián in the Basque Autonomous Community...
, Dávod
Dávod
Dávod is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2260 people ....
, Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2473 people ....
, Hercegszántó
Hercegszántó
Hercegszántó is a village in the Bács-Kiskun county of Hungary, famous for being the birthplace of footballer Flórián Albert....
, Katymár
Katymár
Katymár is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2401 people .-Notable persons:Notable persons born in Katymár:...
, Csátalja
Csátalja
Csátalja is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 1537 people ....
, Csávoly
Csávoly
Csávoly is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It is about far away from Baja.-History:Csávoly's history can be traced back to 1198. The village - under the name of Chayol-Thayal - had many proprietors since 1374. According to Turkish tax listings, Csávoly had 22 houses in 1580...
, Bácsbokod
Bácsbokod
Bácsbokod is a large village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary...
(Bikity), Bácsborsód
Bácsborsód
Bácsborsód is a large village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-References:...
, Bácsalmás
Bácsalmás
Bácsalmás is a small town in southern Hungary in the region of Bácska close to the border with the Vojvodina region of Serbia, with a population of 7,694 people.- History :In the Middle Ages, the region came under the control of the Magyars who absorbed the Slavic and the...
, Tavankut
Tavankut
Tavankut may mean:* Donji Tavankut, a village near Subotica, Serbia.* Gornji Tavankut, a village near Subotica, Serbia....
, Bajmok
Bajmok
Bajmok is a village located in the Subotica municipality, in the North Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina...
, Đurić, Đurđin, Rančevo, etc. Other places, which are nearer to Stanišić, were settled later by German colonists, such as Kolut
Kolut
Kolut is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,710 people .-History:...
in 1757, Gakovo
Gakovo
Gakovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 .-Name:...
in 1763-67, Kruševlje in 1765-67 and Svetozar Miletić in 1748-52 by Hungarians and Bunjevci. Again in 1746 the whole area surrounding today's Stanišić was called puszta and a part of the Trench of Sombor (Somborski šanac) serving just for cattle-pasture. Baron Gyula Redl, who got the pusta Stanišić to its estate, populated it with some 152 Hungarian and Slovak families from the neighbouring villages in 1752.
Period of intensive settling 1763-1830
There are reports that some Hungarian and BunjevacBunjevci
Bunjevci are a South Slavic community and ethnic group living mostly in the Bačka region of Serbia and southern Hungary...
families from Svetozar Miletić
Svetozar Miletic
Svetozar Miletić was an advocate, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina. He was the oldest of seven children born to Sima and Teodosija Miletić in the village of Mošorin in Šajkaška, the Serbian Military Frontier, on February 22, 1826...
have settled down in Stanišić in 1752 and again in 1754, but most of them remained there only temporarily. As early as 1749, some Serb families might have been there as well, as they had just been turned out of the village of Bukin, which German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
colonists had ordered to be settled down.
Certainly, the greatest group of Serbs came beginning with the year of 1763 and continued to settle there for the next two decades. That year of 1763 is considered as the founding year. The immigrating population was of Serb origin, coming from the neighbouring villages of Dávod
Dávod
Dávod is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2260 people ....
(Dautovo) and Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2473 people ....
(Baračka) (some 15 miles to the Northwest, now in Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
), where they have been settled down as refugees from Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
in the 1690s. As the great German colonisation of these parts of the Habsburg Empire began in 1763, most of Slavic population was ordered to be resettled to the areas called puszta, releasing so places for German and Hungarian settlers, who came in state-colonization. Anton von Cothmann, the Director of the Imperial Estates in this area and the Chief-Commissioner for colonization visited this land in 1763 and ordered Puszta Krusivle (Kruševlje
Kruševlje
Kruševlje is a small settlement in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. It is mostly populated by Serbs.-Name:...
), Priglewitz (Prigrevica
Prigrevica
Prigrevica is a village located in the Apatin municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village is located 9 km east from Apatin...
), Kernei (Krnjaja / Kljajićevo
Kljajicevo
Kljajićevo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbered 6,012 people ....
) and Puszta Gakowa (Gakovo
Gakovo
Gakovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 .-Name:...
) to be settled down by Germans. The village of Kolut
Kolut
Kolut is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,710 people .-History:...
was already populated in 1757, and Apatin
Apatin
Apatin is a town and municipality in the Vojvodina administrative region of Serbia, located in the West Bačka District, at . The town of Apatin is the administrative, economic, cultural, educational and tourist centre of the municipality of Apatin...
in 1749. The villages of Dávod
Dávod
Dávod is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2260 people ....
and Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2473 people ....
were populated by Hungarians. The Serb population was forced to move in Brestovac
Brestovac
Brestovac is village and a municipality in eastern Croatia, located west of Požega.There are 4,028 inhabitants in the municipality, 89% which are Croats...
, Stapar
Stapar
Stapar is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 3,720 people .-History:...
, Sivac
Sivac
Sivac is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kula municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 8,992 people .-Ethnic groups :...
, Deronje
Deronje
Deronje is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Odžaci municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,847 people .-Historical population:*1869: 2,241...
, Parabuć (now Ratkovo), Riđica and Stanišić. So, in 1763 Stanišić was founded by Serb families from Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska
Nagybaracska is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2473 people ....
and Dávod
Dávod
Dávod is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 2260 people ....
. The following year, 1764, another groups of Serbs from Prigrevica
Prigrevica
Prigrevica is a village located in the Apatin municipality, in the West Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village is located 9 km east from Apatin...
and Bokčenović came in, as well as in 1766 from Karavukovo
Karavukovo
Karavukovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Odžaci municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,991 people ....
. Some Serbian families came also in the coming years from the nearby villages of Hercegszántó
Hercegszántó
Hercegszántó is a village in the Bács-Kiskun county of Hungary, famous for being the birthplace of footballer Flórián Albert....
(Santovo), Đurić, Gara
Gara
Gara is a bilingual newspaper published in the city of San Sebastián in the Basque Autonomous Community...
, etc. Anton von Cothman visited the village in 1763 and in 1764 supervising German colonisation of Gakovo
Gakovo
Gakovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 .-Name:...
and Kruševlje
Kruševlje
Kruševlje is a small settlement in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. It is mostly populated by Serbs.-Name:...
. He was the first person who ever recorded the village name Stanišić being there. He drew a map of the village, showing in 1764 about 50 small houses, located just beside the great road from Baja
Baja, Hungary
Baja is a city in , southern Hungary. It is the second largest city in the county, after the county seat at Kecskemét, and is home to around 37,000 people....
to Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin , is part of the agglomeration of Novi Sad in Serbia...
, two great fens beside them and at the end wrote the name Sztanesity below it. As he could not speak the Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
, he spelled it therefore wrongly. The inhabitants called their new settlement Stanišić .
According to lore, the name originated when the settlers were a long way into unknown area, walking on foot, thirsty, hungry and tired of truck-hauling, and pleading their leader to stop for a while just to take some rest. They shouted Halt, old man! (in Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: "Stani, čiča!"), This place is good enough for us!. He had done so, but not earlier than they had arrived on suitable land. So, from the words Stani čiča they called their new home firstly Staničič , which soon became more easily for pronunciation like Stanišić. This story might have been happened even earlier, because this village name was recorded firstly in 1654. Officially, it was also recorded under this name in 1832 (Hungarian: Sztanisity). Its villagers always called it so. The Hungarian authorities changed it officially to Őrszállás in 1904. As a part of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
and Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
from 1918, the original name was never changed, except during the Hungarian occupation in the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
(1941–44). However, the Germans who settled here in 1786 and later, pronounced it Stanischitsch or Stanischitz (or just more common as Tannischitz), as a more suitable form for them. Attempts of Pro-Nazi orientated Germans to change the village name around 1935-36 (as a future part of germanisation of the area) to Donau-Wachenheim, Deutsch-Wachenheim, Steinsitz, Tannenschütz were only bad mistranslations of its original name, and never commonly accepted, not even amongst themselves. Stanišić (German: Stanischitsch) was and remained Stanišić.
In those early years the communion of Stanišić numbered about 50 families. In 1772, a Serbian Orthodox church
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
was built in the middle of the village, it still exists on the same spot. In 1768, 88 families were recorded, all farmers and cattle-breeders. A few German families moved to Stanišić about 1770 from Gakovo
Gakovo
Gakovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 .-Name:...
and Kruševlje
Kruševlje
Kruševlje is a small settlement in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. It is mostly populated by Serbs.-Name:...
. Some years later, in 1782, the first Catholic parish was founded, gathering only a few Hungarian, German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
and Slovak
Slovaks
The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
Catholic families. In 1782 the second great colonization began, this time organized under emperor Joseph II
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I...
. Only in Bačka
Backa
Bačka is a geographical area within the Pannonian plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east of which confluence is located near Titel...
region, 15 villages were founded or repopulated until 1787. Stanišić was one of them. In 1786, some 100 German families from a few years earlier established places like Csátalja
Csátalja
Csátalja is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 1537 people ....
, Gakovo
Gakovo
Gakovo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 .-Name:...
, Kruševlje
Kruševlje
Kruševlje is a small settlement in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. It is mostly populated by Serbs.-Name:...
, Kolut
Kolut
Kolut is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,710 people .-History:...
and Nemesnádudvar
Nemesnádudvar
Nemesnádudvar is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary.The parish of Nádudvar was founded in 1739, separating from parish Hajos...
settled down in Stanišić. They originated from Lorraine
Lorraine (province)
The Duchy of Upper Lorraine was an historical duchy roughly corresponding with the present-day northeastern Lorraine region of France, including parts of modern Luxembourg and Germany. The main cities were Metz, Verdun, and the historic capital Nancy....
, Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
and Saar region. They built 100 new houses during that summer of 1788 about 200 meters on the eastern, upper grounds than the Serb village existed. The newly built thump-houses were put in two lines with three blocks (one of them left for the church) making the first street (called by Germans Gasse, the future Kirchen Gasse). The new village was proclaimed a separate municipality from the Serb one, and thus called Neu Stanischitz ("New Stanišić"). Stanišić developed very fast and soon became one of the greater villages in the county.
Between 1790 and 1830 (especially between 1812 and 1820) more than 150 new German families moved to Stanišić, mainly from Csátalja
Csátalja
Csátalja is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 1537 people ....
(County of Baja
Baja, Hungary
Baja is a city in , southern Hungary. It is the second largest city in the county, after the county seat at Kecskemét, and is home to around 37,000 people....
, nowadays in Hungary). The number of Serb families decreased, and the number of German families increased from 120 in 1790 to 400 in 1830. About 500 new houses were built until 1830. Also about 45 Hungarian and about 25 Slovak families settled in Stanišić until 1830, however, many of them soon adopted German language, culture and customs and declared themselves as Germans. The total population of Stanišić numbered 2,200 people in 1790 and about 4,600 in 1830. It was more than doubled. In 1790 there was 53% Serbs, 40% Germans and 7% Hungarians, Slovaks and others. But, in 1830 the majority were Germans with 58%, followed with 26% Serbs, 14% Hungarians, 1.5% Jews. The Slovaks declared themselves already by 1830 as Germans or as Slovaks. So, from the early 19th century the German population dominated Stanišić. A great step forward was made in 1811, when both Serb and German parts of village were united in one and Stanišić was proclaimed a market-place by Emperor Franz I. It meant, that Stanišić was allowed to held a market what was a great improvement compared to other villages in the county.
Demographics (2002 census)
Ethnic groups in the village include:- 3,511 SerbsSerbsThe Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
(73.02%) - 367 CroatsCroatsCroats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
(7.63%) - 363 Hungarians (7.55%)
- 140 YugoslavsYugoslavsYugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
(2.91%) - 24 BunjevciBunjevciBunjevci are a South Slavic community and ethnic group living mostly in the Bačka region of Serbia and southern Hungary...
(0.5%) - 16 GermansGermansThe Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
(0.33%) - 387 Others (8.04%)
Historical population
- 1763: ca. 200
- 1765: ca. 300
- 1768: ca. 400, 88 families
- 1772: ca. 500, 109 families
- 1782: ca. 1,100 (including ca. 1,050 Serbs and ca. 50 Hungarians and Slovaks)
- 1786: ca. 1,400 (mostly Serbs and some Hungarians)
- 1790: ca. 2,200 (settled with some new 100 German families in 1786)
- 1791: 2,282 (1,213 Serbs (53.1%); 1,069 Catholics - ca. 950 Germans & ca. 100 Hungarians & Slovaks)
- 1797: 349 families; 168 Serbian, 161 German, 14 Slovak, 6 Hungarian
- 1798: 2,650 (1,150 Serbs (43%); 1,350 Germans (50%); 150 Slovaks and Hungarians (7%))
- 1815: 4,285 (1,080 Serbs (25%), 3,130 Catholics (ca. 2,500 Germans, ca. 450 Slovaks, ca. 200 Hungarians), 75 Jews; The Slovaks are further listed as Germans or Hungarians)
- 1828: 4,566 (1,200 Serbs, 2,650 Germans, 640 Hungarians, 76 Jews)
- 1834: 4,254
- 1838: 4,529
- 1850: 4,600 (1,100 Serbs, 2,700 Germans, 700 Hungarians, 70 Jews, 30 others)
- 1860: 5,754 (1,100 Serbs, ca. 3,700 Germans, ca. 750 Hungarians, ca. 200 Jews and others)
- 1880: 6,685 (1,100 Serbs, 4,451 Germans, 800 Hungarians, ca. 300 Jews and others)
- 1890: 7,221
- 1900: 6,688 (456 Serbs, 5,084 Germans, 1,112 Hungarians, 4 Slovaks, 70 Jews, etc.)
- 1910: 7,086 (557 Serbs, 5,206 Germans, 1,266 Hungarians, 6 Croats, 106 Jews, 51 others)
- 1921: 7,580 (739 Serbs and Croats, 5,620 Germans, 1,132 Hungarians, 36 Slovaks, etc.)
- 1931: 7,596 (1,285 Serbs and Croats, 5,382 Germans, 911 Hungarians, 7 Slovaks, etc.)
- 1941: 7,579 (580 Serbs, ca. 100 Croats, ca. 5,900 Germans, ca. 900 Hungarians, 12 Jews, 40 Slovaks, some others). Number of families: 1,614 (including 1,410 German, 110 Serbian, 70 Hungarian, 20 Jewish, 10 Croatian); 6,915 Catholics, 580 Orthodox, 46 Greek-Catholic, 6 Evangelists, 17 Evang-Reform.,12 Israelites, 3 others)
- 1945: German population fled or was expelled as a consequence of World War II events, ca. 1,500 inhabitants remained (mainly Serbs and Hungarians, and about 200 Germans) During the war about 1,300 German men were forced into Hungarian or German army corps and moved to the Eastern front, where many were captured. Of that number 242 were killed (65 on the Russian front, 37 in Hungary, 140 elsewhere, etc.), and many others were captured. Of some 4,400 German civilians who remained at their homes in Stanischitsch, only 126 inhabitants fled before the Red Army came into the village on October 20, 1944. Many were then arrested and forced into labour camps, to Sombor and Mitrovica, others, including 360 young women and men deported into Russian labour camps in Sybiria. Some 160 died there and never returned. About 3,500 civil men, women and children were captured in the village and soon on August 10, 1945 deported into neighbouring death camps in Krusevlje and Gakovo, where many of them remained until March 1948. About 500 were soon returned to the home village to work for the new authorities. At least 450 people died in these camps, others, more than 1,000 fled from these camps during 1946/47 to Austria. During the flight at least 20 people were shot dead. About 2,000 people were released in 1948 and most of them emigrated to West Germany between 1952 and 1964.
The total number of German civil casualties was at least 923 or 15% of its pre-war population, which numbered about 5,800. Of that number, 520 were civil victims of death-camps in Yugoslavia, and some 160 of Russian labour camps, killings and torture, and 242 were listed as war victims. The deaths were registered in following camps: 171 person died in Gakova, 100 in Krusevlje, 103 in Stanischitsch itself, 43 in Sremska Mitrovica, 14 in Sombor, 2 in Miletic, 2 in Rudolfsgnad, 8 in Jarek, 1 in Karlsdorf, 1 in Karavukovo, and 1 in Bajmok. More than 52 soldiers died as prisoners-of-war in Russia. There were only 181 (~3%) Germans registered in Stanischitsch on March 31, 1948.
- 1945-46: ca. 3,000 Serbs and 2,500 Croats from Dalmatia settled(in total 1029 families with 5430 people)
- 1947-50: Many families turned back to Dalmatia, mostly Croats
- 1948: 7,741 (3,763 Serbs, 2,480 Croats, 1,224 Hungarians, 181 Germans, etc.)
- 1953: 7,814
- 1961: 7,521 (4,464 SerbsSerbsThe Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
(59.4%), 8 YugoslavsYugoslavsYugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
, 1,019 Hungarians (13.5%), 1,814 CroatsCroatsCroats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
(24.1%), 26 MacedoniansMacedonians (ethnic group)The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...
, etc.) - 1971: 6,156 (3, 256 Serbs, 845 Croats, 758 Hungarians, 918 Yugoslavs, 9 Montenegrians, etc.)
- 1981: 5,476 (2, 804 Serbs, 492 Croats, 584 Hungarians, 1522 Yugoslavs, etc.)
- 1991: 5,131 (3,140 SerbsSerbsThe Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
(61.2%), 946 YugoslavsYugoslavsYugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
(18.44%), 459 Hungarians (8.95%), 454 CroatsCroatsCroats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
(8.85%) and 18 GermansGermansThe Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
) - 2002: 4,808 (3,511 Serbs, 367 Croats, 363 Hungarians, 140 Yugoslavs, 9 Macedonians, 8 Montenegrians, 4 Slovaks, 24 Bunjevacs, 16 Germans, 2 Slovenians, 1 Bosniak, 353 others, etc.)
- 2006 (estimation): 4,797
- 2011: 3,971
Serb, Croat and Bunjevac family names
A Serb, Croat and Bunjevac family names in the village include: Alfirević, Andrić, Ardalić, Arnaut, Babić, Bačković, Badža, Balać, Baljak, Baljkas, Ban, Banić, Barać, Barišić, Batinić, Bašić, Baus, Beara, Begovac, Berber, Bezbradica, Bijanko, Bjedov, Boban, Bobanac, Bogdanović, Bogovac, Bogunović, Bodrožić, Bolanča, Borak, Borčić, Borković, Borović, Borđoški(*), Bosnić, Botica, Božan, Bračulj, Brajković, Brkić, Brstilo, Brujić, Budimčević, Bugarin, Bukovac, Buklijaš, Bulčić, Bulović, Bubanja, Buljan, Buljević, Burgijašev (*), Bundalo, Bustruc, Ceranić, Cerovac, Ciganović, Crnica, Crnogorac, Crnokrak , Crnomarković, Cvetić, Cvetićanin, Cvetković, Cvetinović, Cvitkovac, Ćalić, Ćosić, Ćućko, Čavlin, Čaut, Četnik , Čonkić, Čota, Čude, Dabić, Delaš, Delić, Despinić, Despot, Dević, Dobrić, Dobrijević, Dopuđ, Dragić, Dragičević, Dragišić, Drča, Drezgić, Drljača, Drljačin (*), Držak, Dvokić, Dubajić, Đaković, Đapić, Đenadija, Đurić, Đurica, Đurđev, Džalo, Elek, Elez, Erceg, Ercegović, Egić, Ergić, Filipović, Ferenčević (#), Frleta, Gagić, Garić, Garevski, Gladović, Gližin (*), Glišić, Gnjatović, Gnječ, Gnjidić, Govorušić, Graovac, Grujić (*), Gugleta, Gundić, Gunjača, Gusić, Gužvica, Hubana, Ibrahimović, Ikač, Ilić, Iliktarević, Išpanović (#), Ivanković, Janković, Jaramaz, Jelača, Jelavić, Jelić, Jerković, Jokić, Jolić, Josip, Jovančević, Jovanović (*), Jovičić, Jović, Jukić, Jurlina, Kabić, Kajić, Kalčić, Kalanj, Kalinić, Kajičić, Kamber, Kanurić, Kapetanović, Karaica, Karabatić, Karan, Katavić, Katić, Katović, Kečenović, Kelić, Kitić, Klarić, Klinac, Knežević, Koćalo, Komazec, Komnenov (*), Kovačić, Kovačević, Krička, Kršić, Krivošija, Krivošić, Krkobabić, Krstanović, Kršić, Krunić, Kukavica, Kundit, Kuran, Kurajica, Kuridža, Kusić, Kužet, Labor, Lalić, Lazarević, Lazinica, Ledić (#), Leskur, Ležajić, Lokas, Lolić, Lončar, Lovrić , Lukić, Ljubojević, Macura, Maglov, Maljković, Maksimović, Majstorović, Mandić, Manojlović, Marinković, Marinović, Marjanović, Marković, Marčetić, Mašić (*), Martić, Matijaš, Matijević, Mihajlović, Mijakovac, Mijić, Mikolačević, Milanko, Milanković, Milaš, Miletić, Milić, Milivojević, Miljanović, Mirković, Mišković, Mišković (*), Mitić, Mladenović, Mlinar, Mrđenović, Mrvica, Munjas, Momić, Musulin, Napijalo, Nedić, Nenadić, Nevešćanin, Nikolić (*), Novaković, Nović, Nuradin, Obačkić, Obrić, Odović, Ogar, Olujić / Oluić, Opačić, Opančarev (*), Orlić, Oruč, Okarapidis (Greek), Palada, Panić, Pandža, Pandžić, Parađina, Paravinja, Pajić, Pazman, Pejić, Pejin (#), Pekanović, Peović, Petronić, Petrović, Perić, Pešić, Pilja, Plećaš, Popadić, Poplašen, Popić, Primorac, Prosenica, Pršo, Pucar, Pupavac, Putica, Pušin (*), Radić, Radinović, Radman, Radmilović, Rađa, Računica, Rajić, Rajković, Rakić, Rašković, Rinčić, Ristić, Rnjak, Rogušić, Romac, Romić, Rončević, Rosić, Rudić, Samardžija, Samardžić, Sardalić, Sakić, Savić, Sazdanić, Sečujski, Sekulić, Selakov, Simić, Simonović, Sladić, Sladoja, Skokna, Smiljanić, Sotirovski, Srakić, Sretić, Stanić, Stanisavljević, Stanojević, Stijak, Stojanac, Stojkov (*), Stojković, Sretić (*), Stričević, Sunić, Šalov, Šanko, Šapić, Šarić, Šekuljica, Šerić, Šešić, Šego, Šimpraga, Šolak, Šorgić, Šolaja, Šteković, Štimac, Štruklić, Šuša, Šveljo, Švonja, Tamburović, Tanasić, Tanurdžić (*), Tadić (#), Tanjga, Tešić, Tokić, Tolimir, Torbica, Tošić, Tričković, Trivić, Terzin, Trzin, Tucić, Tutuš, Vasiljević, Varađanin, Višić (*), Večerina, Veselinović, Višnjevac, Vojković, Vojnić, Vojvodić, Vujaković, Vračar, Vračarić (*), Vranić, Vranković, Vučenović, Vučković, Vudrag, Vujasinović, Vujević, Vujko, Vukadinović, Vukasović, Vuković, Vulić, Vunduk, Ugrenović, Usorac, Zagorac, Zelenović, Zlatković, Zeljković, Žaja, Žeželj, Žderić, etc.- (*) These Serb families are among the oldest in Stanišić, listed before 1797.
- (#) These families are listed before 1940.
- Families written in italics arrived with the colonization in 1945-46.
- (-) These families exist no more in Stanišić.
Some Croat families living since 1945/46, are not listed nowadays any more, because they moved away, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s or later, like: Blašković, Brkljača, Buljan, Bulčić, Buva, Grga, Sinica, Jurko, Guslov, Punda, Gracin, Grgurinović, Lučić, Jakus, Sonko, Franić, Šimara, Ujević, Marčina, Vicko, Puharić, Tičinović, etc. A great number of Croatian families moved to Croatia and third countries during the war in Croatia (1991–1995) like : Sinica, Jukić, Katović, Bračulj, Jerković, Čota, Delić, Lokas, Ban, Lovrić etc.
German family names
German family names listed in 1940 include:Albrecht, Amann, Amon, Angeli, Arnold, Bach, Bajer (and Bayer), Bauer, Beck, Benz, Becker, Beer, Beller, Bergmann, Binder, Bischof, Bohner, Bokum, Bleilinger, Bretträger, Büchinger, Born, Brand, Brandecker, Brenner, Bruckner, Bruder, Bucher, Butterer, Danninger, Deutsch, Eberhard, Eder, Eimer, Einwiller (and Eiwiller),Eisenhut, Elmer, Engländer, Englerth, Fabian, Federer, Feider, Fessler, Feth, Feurer, Fischer, Fischer, Fischler, Feirer, Feldes, Fiederer, Fisterer, Fisterer, Fleischer, Folkemer, Gantner, Gärtner, Gauder, Ginal, Ginter, Geisinger, Guder, Haas, Haberbusch, Halbländer, Harti, Hauth, Harembach, Heck, Hech, Heller, Helmer, Heckenberger, Hermann, Holzer, Hochrei, Horei, Horren, Huber, Häfner, Heft, Hegert, Högert, Heichele, Heitz, Helfrich, Hemeli, Hängen, Hertzl, Hetrich, Hingl, Hirschschläger, Hubert, Hummel, Hutfluss, Hönner, Hören, Illi (Illich), Imhoff, Jennowein, Jost, Jung, Kapp, Karbach, Kegler, Kemmer, Keil, Kehl, Keiner, Keinrad, Kekler, Keller, Kersch, Kien, Kirschner, Klaus, Klein, Kleiner, Klemm, Konz, Koller, Kopping, Kokus, Kraus, Kremm, Kristmann, Kuntzer, Kutsch, Kuehn, Lackner, Lang, Langbein, Laubach, Lauth, Leml, Licht, Litzenberger, Landgraf, Letscher, Lewang, Litzinger, Majer (and Mayer), Martin, Matheis, Meilern, Mendler, Merkler, Merli, Mesch, Melem, Mönich, Müller, Muskath, Nägele, Naunheimer, Neubert, Nuber, Nuspl, Oberth, Ollmann, Osfielt, Ospelt, Oswald, Ottenheimer, Ottental, Pechlof, Peller, Pleli, Postpischl, Potz, Penninger, Penz, Pfeffer, Pinter, Pisli, Prisslinger, Pump, Quintus, Rang, Rau, Richter, Rapp, Rauh, Reichhardt, Reiner, Reinhofer, Reitz, Rendl, Rettig, Rickert, Risbeck, Rosmann and Rossmann, Rosmanitz, Roth, Röckl, Schaman, Schamberger, Schauer, Scherk, Schira, Schlemmer, Schlotzer, Schmidt, Schultheis, Schweigl, Schwemmlein, Schäfer, Schönhöfer, Seite, Seitz, Semlitsch, Settele, Sibler, Sickinger, Spaltenberger, Speer, Staller, Steger, Steiner, Stertz, Strahl, Sauer, Schnaderbeck, Schneider, Schnitzer, Schopper, Spamberger, Spreitzer, Strigl, Sujer, Stöckl, Thebert, Thes, Tiesler, Titz, Trommler, Tscheng (or Tschenk), Tuschter, Uli, Ulmer, Umstädter, Urnauer, Urtheil, Usleber, Weber, Weichner, Weigand, Weiland, Welchner, Wenner, Wolf, Weiner, Weiss, Werner, Wettstein, Wetzstein, Wettstein, Wiragh, Wieland, Witsch, Wohlfahrt, Wölfl, Zips, Zisler or Ziesler, etc.
German family names not listed in 1940, but living after 1786 include:
Astleber, Bammer, Bauholzter, Baumgartner, Barl, Bittel, Berger, Brill, Bürkel, Distler, Dosinger, Ehrhardt, Elkinger, Enstele, Felgel, Friederer, Friedrich, Fuchs, Gräber, Grilhauer, Grünfelder, Halbig, Harthe, Hausmann, Hembe, Hendler, Herstenberger, Hinkel, Holzhauer, Horwath, Höger, Hwang, Huss, Jakoby, Jergur, Katty, Koriozathfinssky, Keppig, Kestler, Kern, Kiefer, Knitter, Krämer, Koth, Kumeringer, Lenbach, Locher, Mad, Maaß, Matz, Mayling, Mukesser, Naunehmer, Neubauer, Oberkirsch, Obermann, Ohrmann, Pastor, Paul, Pechlug, Peitz, Pfanholzer, Puhl, Ratzka, Reiter, Taufel, Teibl, Sauterer, Schaal, Schädele, Scher, Scherer, Schild, Schlott, Schmidt, Schilling, Schirosch, Schmack, Schnur, Schöpfhauser, Schweitzer, Seebald, Suttrer, Vorgrümter, Wagner, Wallentin, Wentzel, Weimann, Wihlzuhr, Wolfshobel, Zepf, etc.
Some of these families were listed before 1797, while others came between 1801–1813, or some years later, mostly from Csátalja
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, etc.
More than 70 German families settled in Stanišić after 1850s or in the early 20th century, immigrating from the neighbouring villages. There were approximately 290 German family names living in about 1,410 households, stated in 1940. In 1946 about 50 German families were allowed to stay or return to village, because they were needed for all kinds of jobs. Some of them were: Kokus, Rohatsch, Spreitzer (Dr. Josef), Kuntzer, Mayer, Rosmanitz, Kuntzer, Litzinger, Schneider, Ritkasser, Frohlich, Ottenthal, etc. Nowadays, only a few German families remained in the village: Litzinger, Schneider, Schnaderbeck, Bretträger, Kuschel, Rosmanitz, Butterer, Rind, etc. In 2002, only 16 villagers listed themselves as Germans, and some others as Hungarians.
Some of the following family names were Germanized and those families listed themselves as German: Balogh (originally Hungarian), Buschanski (originally Slovak), Ferenz (originally Hungarian), Firitzki (originally Slovak), Gerescher (originally Hungarian), Juraditsch (originally Bunjevac), Kerescher (originally Hungarian), Kisialla (unknown origin), Kokus (originally French, spelled Cocus/Caquis), Kollar (originally Slovak), Kollitseh or Kollitschech (originally Slovak), Kosse (originally French, spelled Cosse), Lewang (originally French, spelled Le Vangue), Merli (originally Hungarian), Pleli (originally French, spelled Plailly), Ruppek (originally Slovak), Schira (originally French, spelled Chirat), Sekeresch (originally Hungarian), Semlitsch (originally Slovak), Settele (originally French, spelled Saitelet), Wiragh (originally Hungarian), Worlitschek (originally Slovak).
The list of family names is not complete because family names of temporary residents are not listed.
The most numerous families were: Eberhardt, Eimer, Fessler, Feth, Hauth, Heck, Lang, Litzinger, Mayer, Nuspl, Potz, Rendl, Rosmann, Weiner, Weber, Weiss, Wiragh, etc. All of them were settled in Stanišić before 1820.
The most frequent male names were: Adam, Andreas, Anton, Franz, Georg, Jakob, Johann, Josef, Karl, Lorenz, Martin, Matthias, Melchior, Michael, Nikolaus, Paul, Peter, Philipp, Stefan, and Wendelin. Tho most frequent female names were: Anna, Annamaria, Barbara, Christina, Franziska, Elisabeth, Eva, Gertrude, Hilde, Katharina, Maria, Magdalena, Margaretha, Sophia and Theresia.
Hungarian family names
Hungarian family names that existed in the village include: Aranyi, Balta, Bajai (*), Balázs (*), Balogh (*) (Germanized), Baranyi (*), Barta, Bitto (*), Buzássy (*), Csáki (*), Danis, Erakovity, Ercsi (*), Fábián, Ferenczi (*), Fircsa, Futto (*), Gallo (*), Géczy (*), Geresser (*), Grécs / Gréts (*), Gyugyák / Jugyák (*), Haller (*), Hetyei (*), Horváth (*), Hosszú, Illés (*), Kanyó, Kardos (*), Kehely (*), Keressy (*), Krizsák (*), Krecs (*), Konc / Kontz / Koncz (*), Kovács (*), Korácsonyi (*), Köműves, Kucso, Kurta (*), Lakatos (*), Letkó (*), Lócsa (*), Major, Majoros, Makai (*), Markó / Márkó (*), Martinetz (*), Mészáros (*), Mikolasevity, Molnár (*), Mojzes (*), Ódry, Olách (*), Orbán, Pásztor (*), Pekter, Sági (*), Simonyi (*), Sipos (*), Szakál, Szalai (*), Szekeres (*), Szeresi, Szilágyi, Takács, Tamás (*), Tóth, Zsunity, Zsumbera (*), Urbán, Újvári (*), Váczi, Varga (*), Vass (*), Versánszky, Virágh (*) (Germanized).(*) these families lived in Stanišić before 1945
Slovak family names
Slovak family names that existed in the village include: Bendak, Benyak, Bircsak, Buschanski, Drobina (*), Firitski, Franjo / Franyó (*), Hatala, Jantsko, Janski, Kollar (*), Kollarik (*), Kolicsek, Kovalovszki, Križak (*), Kutcsera / Kutsera (*), Marko (*), Medelka, Moncsek, Napora (*), Oszlansky, Ralbovszki (*), Rapcsak, Roncsak (*), Ruppek, Szemlics / Szemlits, Trenka (*), Worlitschek.(*) still living, but declare themselves as Hungarians
Most of Slovak families that settled in Stanišić were Germanized in the second or third generation, but after 1945, only those who listed themselves as the Hungarians could remain in the village.