Danube Swabian

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Chapters: Danube Swabian communities, Johnny Weissmuller, Freidorf, StaniSic, Danube Swabians, Herta Müller, Banat Swabians, Skorenovac, Dudestii Noi, Apatin, Robert Zollitsch, Odzaci, Meda, Nitchidorf, Nikolaus Lenau, Ferenc Rajniss, Solymár, Jimbolia, Sânnicolau Mare, Törökbálint, Ferenc Erkel, Richard Wagner, Károly Molter, Stefan Jäger, György Klapka, Lovcenac, Buzias, Banatski Brestovac, Ðorde Vajfert, Backi Gracac, Swabian Turkey, Veliki Gaj, Ovidiu Gant, Villány, Liebling, Timis, Robert Hammerstiel, Vaskút, Peregu Mare, Lenauheim, Franz Anton Basch, Becicherecu Mic, St. George's Cathedral, Timisoara, Deta, Romania, Robert Dornhelm, Ortisoara, Satchinez, Satu Mare Swabians, Foeni, Bethausen, Gottlob, Timis, German People's Union - National Association of Danube Swabians in Croatia. Excerpt: StaniSic (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Backa District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,808 people (2002 census). In Serbian, the village is known as StaniSic or ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, in German as Stanischitsch, Stanischitz, Tannenschütz, Tannischitz, Tanaschitz or Donauwachenheim, in Croatian as StaniSic, in Hungarian as Orszállás, and in Bunjevac as StaniSic. The village of StaniSic is located in the Northwestern part of Serbia in the municipality of Sombor, about 7 miles from the Hungarian border between Ridica, Gakovo, Svetozar Miletic and Aleksa santic. It is located just on the edge of the great land-plateau called Telecka (Telecka 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 KruSevlje and Gakovo) was in fens, morasses and swampy meadows, especially in the raining seasons, and thus inconvenient for settling. StaniSic 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. The earliest recorded settlement on this location was called Örs in Hungarian, 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