Kljajićevo

Kljajićevo ( Serbian Cyrillic Кљајићево ), formerly Krnjaja, is a village in the municipality ( Opština ) Sombor in the district of West - Backa ( Bačka Zapadna ) of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia with about 6000 inhabitants. In German the place is called Kernei, in Hungarian Kerény. Maria Theresa had left the place in 1765 to colonize with Swabia. He was still inhabited in 1944 by approximately 6,300 Danube Swabians. For Kernei were different names, as with most places Danube Swabian applied.

German:

  • Kernei
  • Officially Krnjaja

Hungarian:

  • Kernya
  • Kerény

Modifications by dialect: Kljaicevo, Kernyáya, Kornau, Kernai, Gorni - Szentkirály, Kernyája, Szentkirálya, Királya

History

Early colonization

Human settlement in the territory of today's Kljajićevo can be traced back to the Stone Age. It pottery vessels were found, suggesting that here before Christ lived the Celts in the 2nd century. They were replaced by the Dacians and they were followed by Jazyges. These were by the Romans under Marcus Aurelius ( 161-180 AD). Defeated. From this time, the " Roman hills ", which are initiated at Apatin come. One of the so-called "small jumps " retreated below the hill of Teletschkaer Miletitsch, northeast of Sombor, past Tschonopl and Kernei until after Tscherwenka. Roman rule was shaken by the Goths. 1391 was during the reign of the Kingdom of Hungary, sent settlement named Kiraj ( Sveti Kraj ) mentioned at this point.

Ottoman administration

During the Ottoman administration ( 16th-17. century) the Bačka was part of the Sanjak of Szeged ( Szeged ). The former Hungarian population fled and the area was mostly populated by ethnic Serbs from the south. The village was in 1590 in the Ottoman control lists ( Defters ) as Kernja, a settlement near Sombor first mentioned. The settlement was mentioned in 1601 under the name Krnjaja and was populated by ethnic Serbs. In the early 1700s, Serbs managed farms with livestock as part of the Austria -Hungarian Grenzeverteidung against the Ottoman Empire. The landscape remained sparsely populated with farms until 1760 with the first Danube Swabians were settled in 100 new homes.

Habsburg administration

1699 came the Bačka in the possession of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. Having ascended the throne, Maria Theresa of Austria as Queen of Hungary in 1740, they encouraged the colonization on crown lands first on the Military Frontier and, as the population density had been decimated by recent wars against the Turks by the war later on the entire surface.

The new settlers in the village were mainly Austrians, Hungary and Bohemia from the Greater Reich. But they were commonly referred to as Danube Swabians and began to call themselves Shwoveh.

Anton von Cothmann (1720-1768) Kameralrat, had a decisive influence on the course and design of the settlement. He made 1763 the Empress Maria Theresa to colonize the proposal Kernyája and the surrounding area. According to the " Conscriptio " from December 21, 1765, a new village was relocated and newly founded with 17 families, of which 57 % are ethnic Germans. Among those were farmers, two blacksmiths, 1 carpenter 1 Weber and a host. The village was now called " Kernjaja " or " Kernyaja ". For the next few decades the number of settlers increased annually. Between 1794/1796 291 families come to live here after Kernaja. Among them, 83 % German, 11 % Hungarians and 6% Böhmer.

Joseph II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of Austria, the village expanded with 78 new houses. The Catholic Church was built in 1791. Although the city had many official name, it was always called by its inhabitants until the expulsion of 1945 " Kernei ". At the beginning of 1767 students were taught in the cantor house. The new school was built in 1911. The church was later transformed into a Greek Orthodox Christian Church.

Yugoslav administration

1918 as part of Backa and Banat, Baranja, Krnjaja to Serbia, who later formed together with the Kingdom of Montenegro and the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( renamed Yugoslavia in 1929). From 1929 to 1941, the village was part of the Dunavska Banovina, a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Swell

  • HOG Kernei
  • DVHH ( Danubeswabian Villages Helping Hands ) Kernei (not activated)

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  • Place in Okrug Zapadna Bačka
  • Place in Backa
  • Opština Sombor
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