Kruščica, Bela Crkva

Kruščica Крушчица
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox church
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Coordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Banat
Municipality	Bela Crkva
Elevation	166 m (545 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Kruščica	989
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+381(0)13
Car plates	VŠ

Kruščica (Serbian Cyrillic: Крушчица) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (71.38%) with a sizable Czech minority (23.35%) and a population of 989 people, according to the 2002 census.

Name

Names in other languages: Czech: Kruščice, German: Kruschtschitz, Hungarian: Körtéd.

Czech minority

The first Czechs appeared in Kruščica in 1834. Settlers from the first wave of Czech immigrants came from Czech settlement villages in the mountains of the Romanian Banat – from Gârnic, Ravensca, Șumița and Bigăr. Subsequently, Czechs also started moving to Kruščica directly from the Czech lands, mostly from central and south-western Bohemia.[1] Currently (2022), the Czech association in Kruščica operates in the village, which also manages the local Czech cultural house.[2] In the past, there was a Czech school in Kruščica (it closed in 1964), today Czech language is taught by a teacher sent by the Foreign Cooperation House (of course, he also works in other Czech settlements of the Serbian Banat).[3][4] The Czechs there are mostly Roman Catholic, in 1912 they were behind the building of the Church of St. Wenceslas,[1] in which mass is celebrated in Czech to this day.[5]

Historical population

• 1961: 1,738
• 1971: 1,478
• 1981: 1,279
• 1991: 1,185
• 2002: 989

Gallery

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  The Saint Wenceslaus Archduke Catholic Church.

See also

• Kruščica Rebellion
• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

1. Kokaisl, Petr. Krajané: Po stopách Čechů ve východní Evropě [Countrymen: Following the footsteps of the Czechs in Eastern Europe]. Praha: Za hranice. p. 271.
2. "Srbský Banát – Zanikající nebo ožívající česká enkláva?". ethnologist.info (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
3. "Krajané | Czech Embassy in Belgrade". www.mzv.cz. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
4. "Srbský Banát – místo, kde žijí čeští krajané a působí český učitel : Migrace Online". migraceonline.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
5. solidpixels. "Český Banát v Srbsku". VisitBanat.com (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-12-26.

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

• Map of the Bela Crkva municipality showing the location of Kruščica