Voiteg
VOITEG ( Woiteg German, Hungarian Vojtek or Vejte ) is a municipality located in Romania, about 36 kilometers south of Timişoara. The place is connected via the European route 70 with Timişoara. In addition, the railway line runs from Timisoara to Belgrade by VOITEG.
Neighboring towns
Etymology
Over the centuries there have been various spellings of the name: Vejte, Veytech, Veytsch, Wejtech, exchange and Veycech, Woiteg, Wojteg, Woitek, Wojtek, Voitek, VOITEG.
The station, which is located outside the village, called Voiteni.
History
The town was first mentioned in 1328, in the time of the Hungarian king Charles Robert and under the name Veytech, as the property of Teodor Veytey. Until the 15th century, the noble seat was in the hands of the family of Veytey. At the time King Sigismund but were riots in the country. The king wanted to reward his followers and gave them all those goods that have been collected by the agitators. Here also the goods of the family of Veytey were recovered. The king gave their goods through a deed of gift from the March 30, 1410 the ban of Szörény, Lorenz Majus. 1437 came the possession of King Albrecht of Austria in the hands of the landowners Valentin Karay and Benedict Sümegi. Under the reign of John Hunyadi Veytey came into the possession of the Hagymasi Beregsau.
On July 21, 1718 peace was concluded with the Turks in Passaro joke. By this peace the Banat came under the rule of the Austrian Emperor Charles VI. In the first conscription and geographical land survey, which was carried out by Count Mercy, the place consisted of only 28 houses, inhabited by Romanians. The place itself called the Romanians VOITEG. Under this name, he was then taken up in the custom built by Count Mercy map. When in 1776 the village was planned created, many house seats remained empty and therefore gave Josef Brigido of Bresowitz as Country President to command German settlers on the empty seats to be instructed. The German immigrants came from the neighboring towns of Charleville, St. Hubert, Soltour, Orzydorf, Gottlob, among others Bogarosch
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 Wojteg, 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 took place between 18 and 30 years and men aged 16-45 years to build labor in the Soviet Union instead. The land reform law of 23 March 1945 which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, the rural population deprived the livelihood. Through the nationalization law of 11 June 1948 providing for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial establishments, banks and insurance companies, the expropriation of all farms took place regardless of ethnicity.
On June 18, 1951, the deportation took place in the Bărăgan Steppes of all " unreliable elements " regardless of ethnicity instead. The mitaufgebaute of the Wojtegern in Bărăgan and inhabited village consisted of about 800 thatched houses, and got the place name Giurgieni Noi, later renamed Rachitoasa. When the Bărăganverschleppten returned home in 1956, they were back in 1945 expropriated houses and farms, the field possession but was collectivized.
Agricultural school Vojteg
1927, the German agricultural school was built in Wojteg. Here the farmers' sons of the entire Banat were trained to farmers. The school was founded as a limited company with the contribution of thousands banatschwäbischen farmers: A stock with a value of 1,000 lei in 1927 corresponded to the value of 100 kg of wheat.
80 years after the founding of the German agricultural school in Wojteg this traditional Banat school was restored and opened at a ceremony on 13 June 2007 as a German - Romanian center for agricultural trade exhibition and training. To support this company training center include out of Timisoara University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat, a subdivision of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania and DEULA Baden Württemberg GmbH. This project was realized by the support of the 2001-2007 State of Baden- Württemberg, the former prime minister Erwin Teufel and the Minister of Agriculture Willy Stekelle, the German consuls in Timisoara, Klaus Peter Marte and Rolf Maruhn. The total investment amounts to 14.3 billion lei ( 485,000 euros ), the German side has contributed to the funds of the Romanian Government 150,000 euros. The education center has a modern expedient equipped school buildings, together with 554 acres of land. Model this is what the experienced German partner, the DEULA Training Centre for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering from Kirchheim, near Stuttgart.
Personalities
- Helmuth Fraundorfer (* 1959), writer