Schutzberg, Bosnia

Protection Berg ( in some sources also called Glogowatz / Glogovac or Ukrinskilug ) was an important German -speaking settlement east of Prnjavor (Bosnia ) in the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was 1895-1942.

History

During the occupation of Bosnia (see also Budapest Treaty), the areas were found sparsely populated to Prnjavor 1878. Subsequently, efforts have been made to new settlers from other parts of the Danube monarchy to attract. These were successful, so soon Italians, Ukrainians, Slovaks and Poles, but mainly German -speaking settlers from Austria, Bohemia and Hungary settled the area. The municipality Prnjavor was then called "Little Europe " in the vernacular.

The village protection Berg was founded in 1895 by several German groups: Danube Swabians, and other German settlers from Slavonia, Galicia, Bukovina, Hungary and Württemberg.

These settlers gave the settlement the name of protecting the mountain, in the other languages ​​Ukrinskilug, Glogowatz and Glogovac was called. They took over modern agricultural techniques that allowed high yields.

With the end of the monarchy in 1918, the Immigration ended after mountain protection. During World War II collaborating regime was aimed at the evacuation of ethnic Germans in increasing loss of control in areas. This took the People's German agent site of any contract of the Nazi state with the fascist Ustasha movement in Bosnia in attack. Then coated SS units through the villages.

At this time had about 1,300 inhabitants and made ​​it a comparatively larger urban settlement. The end of 1942 was then the evacuation of the German-speaking parts of the population to Germany.

After the war a large part of the character was gone as German settlement. The settlement was repopulated.