Elemir

Elemir ( Serbian Cyrillic Елемир, Hungarian Elemér, German Elemer ) is a town in the municipality of Zrenjanin in the Serbian Banat. It is located 13 km north- west of the city of Zrenjanin and about 90 kilometers north of Belgrade. Elemir is a typical village of German settlers.

History

The word Elemir is after a legend, without temporal fixation, but similar to the Church Slavonic writing Elemirje in the registers of the Serbian Orthodox church in the village, reported by a bevy of dispersed refugees. This, according to the supposedly secure branch on the high bank of the old Theißbettes, saying, ele me ever (about: now / here is peace ). The words were in use and the more grip syllables eventually resulted in Elemir.

Early 1780s sold the Viennese Court Chamber in the Banat lands to private individuals. So it was that Isaac Kiss in Vienna a considerable estate in Elemir auctioned in the summer of 1781, also over two times greater in Ittebey. With the acquisition of large public areas, the survey was accompanied in the lower hereditary nobility; for the family Kiss: de Ellemer et Ittebey. Mid-September to have the first time dwelt in the village and taken his property in inspection Isaac Kiss.

The first German settlers arrived in 1800 after Elemir, most likely in the spring, no later than the beginning of summer. The time frame of the settlement can not be narrowed, particularly immigration, but also migration, has never stopped and pulled over at least months if not years to come.

In October 1945, took over ethnic Serbs settlers from the north-western Bosnia to abandoned homes in Elemir.

Population

1931: 904 German 1941: German 970

Churches

In Elemir there was and is a Serbian Orthodox and a Catholic church. The Catholic parish church of St. Augustine was up to the year 1805 a branch church of St. Joannes Nepomucus in Zrenjanin. In the years before the settlement of Danube Swabian colonists there were only few Catholics, mostly of Hungarian origin. Only with the settlement came more and more Catholics in the place, so that 75 baptisms, marriages and 8 34 deaths were recorded in the Catholic church records in 1805.

First Catholic. Pastor was from 1805 to 1828, a Franciscan monk, Father Bernardus Szalkay. Today, the parish is again supervised by Zrenjanin from, currently about 4 Catholics live in Elemir.