Batina

Batina is a village in Croatia with 1449 inhabitants in the Osijek - Baranja ( Osječko - baranjska županija ), 105 meters high on a hill on the Danube 25 km northeast of Osijek in the triangle of Croatia, Serbia and Hungary to the M 17.1, Osijek- Batina - Bezdan located.

The place is Danube port and at the same time border town. A bridge erected in 1974 and there connects Croatia and the Serbian Bezdan lying on the opposite bank. Batina is dominated by agriculture, but since the end of the war, tourism is becoming a second pillar of the community, particularly through the recreation and leisure center " Zeleni Otok " ( " Green Island "), which offers swimming and water sports, and the capital of an artists' colony is.

First traces of settlement on the Gradac hill reject to the Bronze and Iron Ages, since the 1st century AD was here until late antiquity the fort Ad Militare. Worth seeing are the Baroque chapel from 1756 along the Danube River (pictured left), carved into the rock wine cellar and a 29 m high monument that crowns the hill ( on the right). The monument with a permanent exhibition was erected in memory of the " Battle of Batina " from 6 to 29 November 1944 in the Soviet and Yugoslav federations jointly defeated the German troops.