Checea
Checea ( Ketscha German, Hungarian and Kocse Nagykőcse, Croatian KECA, Serbian Cyrillic Кеча ) is a municipality in the district of Timis, Banat, Romania.
Geographical Location
Checea located in the extreme west of the district Timiş, on the border with Serbia.
Neighboring towns
History
Documented a place called Kocse was first mentioned in 1470 as belonging to the Blasiusz Szati family. In 1717, ketches had eight houses and was owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb. 1890 belonged Kocse ( German Croatian Ketscha, Croatian Hrvatska KECA ) and Nagykőcse ( German Romanian Ketscha, Romanian Checea Română ) for county Torontal. 1910, the two districts Ketscha Croatian and Romanian Ketscha were merged.
According to the tripartite division of the Banat as a result of the Treaty of Trianon, the Croatian part of the village of the Kingdom of Romania was assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Romanian part awarded. As a result of a boundary settlement of 1924, the village was merged again.
As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler's Germany all ethnic German conscript men were drafted into the German army. Even before the war, in January 1945, the deportation of all ethnic German women between 18 and 30 years and men aged from 16 to 45 Jahrennzur construction work took place to the Soviet Union. The land reform law of 23 March 1945 which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, the rural population escaped the livelihoods.
On June 18, 1951, the deportation took place in the Bărăgan - steppe regardless of ethnicity. For this purpose, a plan to clean up the border area was designed by the Romanian government to Yugoslavia "by politically unzuverlässlichen elements." When the Bărăganverschleppten returned home in 1956, they got the 1945 expropriated houses and farms back of the field possession but was collectivized.
Checea was until 1972 a church, then Cenei was incorporated and is only since 2004, an independent municipality.