Darova

Darova ( German Darowa, crane sites, Hungarian Daruvar ) is a municipality in Timiş, Banat, Romania.

Location

Darowa located in the northeastern part of the Romanian Banat, in the east of the Timis county, on the border of Caras -Severin county, 13.5 kilometers south of the city of Lugoj. Until the northern tram stop Boldur the railway Timisoara - Lugoj there are 5.5 kilometers.

Neighboring towns

Name

It was named the town after the time of the founding reigning royal commissioner of the county Temeser " Count Johann Jankovits de Daruvar ". The subsequent attempt to introduce the German designation crane sites, did not sit through.

History

The founding of the town Darowa took place under Emperor Joseph II during the third Schwabenzugs (1786 ). The first settlers came from Baden- Württemberg and from Silesia. Later immigrants from central and southern Germany, the Bohemian- Moravian room, Slovakia and Hungary came. 1812, settled 56 German families from Gottschee in Darova.

Church and School

The majority of the inhabitants of Darova belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic church was founded in 1786, until 1870 stood a house of prayer here. In the years 1870-1871 the current church was built. In 1935, the church received an organ. The new organ gave Hans Egler from Sackelhausen. On the gallery is still a valuable and sonorous harmonium from Vienna. After the expulsion of the last German (1994 ), the Roman Catholic church of the Greek Catholic church was passed.

Darowa had initially a denominational community school. The clergy, the educational supervision, members of religious instruction. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the school was nationalized and the classes were held in Hungarian. According to the tripartite division of the Banat as a result of the Treaty of Trianon and the connection to Romania 1918 the German language was reintroduced as a language of instruction. After the Second World War, the school also received a Romanian department.

Economy

The inhabitants Darowas operated from the beginning farming and animal husbandry. A large part of agriculture took the cereal one, in the first place the wheat, rye and then as a root crop of corn. Partly also sunflowers, tobacco and sugar beets were grown. Almost every family had a vineyard, thus securing the house wine. The vegetable and fruit production was limited to the home gardens, and served their own care. The surpluses could be sold on the market in Lugoj. The animal husbandry was limited to the family needs. Many families had a cow for their own needs and in every house one or two pigs were slaughtered in the year. In addition to the pig was the main supplier of poultry meat for the household. After the collectivization of agriculture in 1959, much of the Darowaer in the agricultural cooperative was busy.

The craft began to gradually develop from the turn of the century ( 1900). Between 1927 and 1945, there were about 24 in the village threshing machines and in the 30s there was the first hinge factory. After 1960 the Darowaer craftsmen were very much appreciated. So many bricklayers, painters were active in distant Romanian villages. In the 80 years Darowa has been enriched by a new industry, the mining industry. Meanwhile, the coal production was discontinued due to unprofitability.

Products from the own business were sold to other villagers or on the Lugojer market. For better marketing the first Darowaer cooperative was founded in 1937. In the interwar period were in Darowa three pubs and six grocers. After the founding of Konsumgenossenschaft 1949, the trade was settled predominantly by that unit.

1968 as Darowa community center was the town received its own attendant. In the same year an outpatient clinic with two doctors and a dentist has been established.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Martin Metz (1933-2003), German composer and church musician romania
• Peter Rohr (1881-1956), German composer and conductor romania