Kruščica
Крушчица
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox church
The Orthodox church
Kruščica is located in Vojvodina
Kruščica
Kruščica
Location of Kruščica within Serbia
Kruščica is located in Serbia
Kruščica
Kruščica
Kruščica (Serbia)
Kruščica is located in Europe
Kruščica
Kruščica
Kruščica (Europe)
Coordinates: 44°52′21″N 21°15′11″E / 44.87250°N 21.25306°E / 44.87250; 21.25306
CountrySerbia
ProvinceVojvodina
DistrictSouth Banat
Elevation
166 m (545 ft)
Population
 (2002)
 • Kruščica989
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+381(0)13
Car platesVŠ

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 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.
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