Futog
Futog (Cyrillic Футог, Hungarian Futak, German Futok ) is a town with 18,582 inhabitants in the Backa Serbia, on the middle Danube about 10 kilometers west of Novi Sad.
History
Futog was first mentioned in 1224, when it was destroyed by Tatars. In 1500, it became a market town and only came a little later in 1526 after the Battle of Mohács to the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish rule lasted over 160 years until 1687, when in a renewed battle of Mohács, the Austrians gained a great victory over the Ottomans. In the years 1716-17, Prince Eugene of Savoy held on in Futok. In the years 1763-64 the scheduled settlement of the town began with enlisted in Swabia and Alsace settlers. 1769 the Austrian Field Marshal Lieutenant Andreas Hadik was levied on the basis of his military achievements in the imperial counts and got the dominion Futak transferred. In 1774, New Futak was founded. 1776, the Serbian Orthodox Church was built and consecrated. It is dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian doctors. 1788 Emperor Joseph II visited the place.
1852 was the reign of Rudolf Chotková of Chotkow. Politically, Futok in the revolutionary years 1848-1849 to Vojvodschaft Serbia, an autonomous region within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. From 1849 to 1860 this was combined with the Banat Vojvodschaft Serbia and Temes Banat. 1895 Futok was connected to the railway network and was given its own railway station.
After the First World War, the city came on 1 December 1918 the newly established so-called SHS State ( Slovenes, Croats, Serbs: država Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba ), which after a constitutional reform of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.
By 1945, the place consisted of two communities:
- Novi Futog ( Neufutok, Mackensenhorst ) with a purely German population,
- Stari Futog ( Altfutok, Eugen village ) with a mixed German -Serb population.
The German population fled in October 1944 at the approach of the Red Army or was expelled later.
Population
Personalities
- Andreas Hadik of Futak, Austrian Imperial Count and Field Marshal