Lovrin
Lovrin ( Lowrin German, Hungarian Lovrin ) is a municipality in Timiş, Banat, Romania.
Location
Lovrin located in the north - west of the district Timiş, 47 kilometers north of Timisoara ( Timisoara ) and 17 km east of Sânnicolau Mare ( Greater St. Nicholas ). Lovrin lies on the road DN6, which connects the two cities and the border point Cenad ( Tschanad ) leads. In Lovrin the railway lines that lead to Sânnicolau Mare and Timişoara and the lines Nerău - Periam - Arad and Lovrin - Jimbolia cross.
Neighboring towns
History
1466 a settlement on the territory of today's Lovrin was first well documented Loránthalma under the name. The place name is Lovrin for the first time in 1701 demonstrated. In 1564 the place is mentioned as a private possession of the Csanád bishop. The settlement in 1740 Catholic Bulgarians settled, but moved after only two years after Alt- Beschenowa. In 1747, this village by further immigration of Bulgarians to a Bulgarian village under the name Lovrinac.
The first Germans settled 1780-1784. 60 German families moved at that time from other Banat, ie by internal migration to. 1787 came the first settlers from the German Reich.
The Lovriner Roman Catholic parish was founded in 1777. Today's Catholic church was built in 1789. It was dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua. 1829 was the Baron Liptay renovate and expand the house of God. Another renovation was carried out in 1969.
1792, Emperor Leopold II Lovrin and Gottlob the General Anton Lipthay for his services in the fight against the Turks as a gift. The General Liptay was here he built a castle, which still bears his name today.
On 4 June 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon. The largest, eastern part, which included Lowrin, fell to Romania.
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 16-45 years was held kidnapped for construction labor in 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. The nationalization law of June 11, 1948, provided for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial establishments, banks and insurance companies, whereby all farms were expropriated, regardless of ethnicity.
As the population along the Romanian- Yugoslav border of the Romanian governance after the rift between Stalin and Tito and his exclusion was classified from the Cominform alliance as a security risk, took place on 18 June 1951, the deportation " of politically unzuverlässlichen elements " in the Bărăgan - steppe, regardless of ethnicity. Romanian leadership aimed at the same time to break the onset of resistance to the upcoming collectivization of agriculture. Bărăganverschleppten When returning home in 1956, they received the 1945 expropriated houses and farms refunded. possession of the field, however, was collectivized.
In the late 1980s, early 1990s emigrated from most Germans. Today Lovrin is a Romanian village.
Population
1930 lived in the village next to the 3302 German and 234 Romanians, 138 Hungarians, 44 Slovaks, 43 Roma, 38 Serbs and 2 other.
In 1977, under the 4255 villagers still German in 1367, to 2618 Romanians, 130 Hungarians, 46 Roma, 41 Serbs and 53 Other.
Personalities
- Josef iron piston (1821-1899), German composer romania
- Kaspar iron piston (1826-1913), German composer romania
- James Hillier (1848-1918), romania German composer, church musician and music teacher
- Aurel iron piston (1849-1918), German composer romania
- Kaspar Muth (1876-1966), politician banatschwäbischer
- Anton Peter Petri (1923-1995), historian
- Anne Marie Podlipny - Hehn (* 1938), art historian and writer
- Ilse Hehn ( born 1943 ), author
- Richard Wagner ( * 1952 ), writer
- Ioan Almasan (born 1962 ), football goalkeeper