Dear List Members,
I am going to show you now the cemetery and the church of a settlement, which plays a very important role in the past of many German (and Hungarian) families from the Banat.
It is Tschanad (Hungarian: Csanád, Romanian: Cenad, Serbian: Čanad). The settlement lies 2 km (1.5 miles) from the current Hungarian-Romanian border. If you don't mind, I will commemorate its past in a few sentences.
There was a Roman military garrison here already 2000 years ago. About 1000 years ago it became part of the Kingdom of Hungary and was part of Hungary until 1920. Over the centuries it developed from village into a town, and in the Middle Ages it was for a time a county seat and episcopal centre. During the 170 years of Turkish rule of Banat, it was a Turkish regional centre, with a large part of the Christian population either exterminated or expelled by the invaders. Turkish rule ended in 1718.
It was in 1745 that the first German settlers arrived in the almost completely uninhabited Tschanad, and this is where the history gets interesting for the list members.
For a long time, Tschanad functioned as a kind of colonist distribution centre. Some of the Germans who arrived here settled here permanently. The other part of newly arrived settlers spent only a short time here and were then distributed to the other Banat settlements according to the instructions and plans of the Government. The ancestors of many German families from Lovrin, Billed, Alexanderhausen, Triebswetter, Marienfeld (etc.) were transferred from Tschanad to their later place of residence. And I mentioned last time that Keglewitschhausen was founded entirely by Germans from Tschanad.
In 1945, it was occupied by the Soviet Red Army and a large part of the Germans were executed, while others were deported to the Soviet Union for forced labour. Their memory is commemorated by a column in the local cemetery.
It currently has around 3,800 inhabitants, of whom only about 25-30 are German. One hundred years ago, the population was 7,800, and about 3,100 of them were German.
That's all for now, in brief, about Tschanad. I hope I didn't bore you with these details.
The Tschanad cemetery and church general view photos can be downloaded for free from this link until 19th February. There are 69 photos, the size of the folder is 300 MB.
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZNW8nZV0KBErpICfhU8QCyNNWlJJ8P27zV
In the "online group preview" feature, the images may appear blurry (because they are large), so I recommend either viewing them individually or downloading the whole folder to your computer.
David,
feel free to upload this folder to the website too!
Stay safe,
Tibor
I am going to show you now the cemetery and the church of a settlement, which plays a very important role in the past of many German (and Hungarian) families from the Banat.
It is Tschanad (Hungarian: Csanád, Romanian: Cenad, Serbian: Čanad). The settlement lies 2 km (1.5 miles) from the current Hungarian-Romanian border. If you don't mind, I will commemorate its past in a few sentences.
There was a Roman military garrison here already 2000 years ago. About 1000 years ago it became part of the Kingdom of Hungary and was part of Hungary until 1920. Over the centuries it developed from village into a town, and in the Middle Ages it was for a time a county seat and episcopal centre. During the 170 years of Turkish rule of Banat, it was a Turkish regional centre, with a large part of the Christian population either exterminated or expelled by the invaders. Turkish rule ended in 1718.
It was in 1745 that the first German settlers arrived in the almost completely uninhabited Tschanad, and this is where the history gets interesting for the list members.
For a long time, Tschanad functioned as a kind of colonist distribution centre. Some of the Germans who arrived here settled here permanently. The other part of newly arrived settlers spent only a short time here and were then distributed to the other Banat settlements according to the instructions and plans of the Government. The ancestors of many German families from Lovrin, Billed, Alexanderhausen, Triebswetter, Marienfeld (etc.) were transferred from Tschanad to their later place of residence. And I mentioned last time that Keglewitschhausen was founded entirely by Germans from Tschanad.
In 1945, it was occupied by the Soviet Red Army and a large part of the Germans were executed, while others were deported to the Soviet Union for forced labour. Their memory is commemorated by a column in the local cemetery.
It currently has around 3,800 inhabitants, of whom only about 25-30 are German. One hundred years ago, the population was 7,800, and about 3,100 of them were German.
That's all for now, in brief, about Tschanad. I hope I didn't bore you with these details.
The Tschanad cemetery and church general view photos can be downloaded for free from this link until 19th February. There are 69 photos, the size of the folder is 300 MB.
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZNW8nZV0KBErpICfhU8QCyNNWlJJ8P27zV
In the "online group preview" feature, the images may appear blurry (because they are large), so I recommend either viewing them individually or downloading the whole folder to your computer.
David,
feel free to upload this folder to the website too!
Stay safe,
Tibor
