Moravița
Moravita ( Morawitz German, Hungarian Temesmóra or Moravicza ) is a municipality in Timiş, Banat, Romania, close to the border with Serbia. It is the last town on the Romanian side of the border crossing Stamora Moravita. To the municipality also includes the villages Moravita Dejan, Gaiu Mic and Stamora Engleză.
Geographical Location
Moravita Situated 70 kilometers from Timişoara on the National Road DN59 and on the European road 70, and on the railway line Timişoara - Belgrade. The station, which is located outside of the village, such as bears the name of the border crossing Stamora Moravita.
Neighboring towns
Etymology
A settlement called Mora, also Mura was first documented in 1332. At the time of Joseph II land survey ( 1717) were in Morava 30 houses where Romanians and Serbs lived. The creek Moravica, which flows alongside the village outskirts ( Mora called on Serbian water) is eponymous for the place name.
History
The inhabited by Romanians and Serbs place in 1775 by the then President of the Banat State Administration Brigido Josef Freiherr von Bresowitz with Germans from the Saarland, from Trier, Lorraine and Swabia, settled. Morawitz cameralistic was a settlement. 1790 settled the Romanians to the nearby Radovantz (today Dejan ). Morawitz 1839 raised to market. During this time the place was also a military garrison stationed in a Uhlan squadron.
On 4 June 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon. The largest, eastern part, which also Morawitza belonged, 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 deprived the livelihood.
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.