Tomnatic
Tomnatic ( German Weather engine, Hungarian Nagyősz ) is located in the north-west part of the Banat Heath, in present-day Romanian Banat on the National Road No. 6 ( Timişoara - Cenad ) between the villages Sânnicolau Mare, Saravale, Lovrin, Nerău, Gottlob and Vizejdia.
Neighboring towns
History
Tomnatic was founded in 1772 by settlers from Lorraine, whose Duke Francis Stephen later Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa married in 1736. From the area around Chateau- Salins come 62 % of the engines weather events settlers. More came from Alsace, the Palatinate, Baden and Bavaria. Weather engine was in settling a French village, but the French language was displaced within three generations of the German. Weather engine was the largest of the four " bulbous " ( French ) villages in Banat. The other three are far from Großkomlosch in today's Serbia (St. Hubert, Charleville and Seultour ). His name Triebswetter received by the engineer Anton von Triebswetter who made this survey. The church was built from 1846 to 1850. The high altar and the two side altars donated the then Bishop Alexander Bonnaz. 1894, the present school was built.
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 Tomnatic 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 took place between 18 and 30 years and men aged 16-45 years to build labor in the Soviet Union instead. The land reform law of 23 March 1945 which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, the rural population deprived the livelihood. The nationalization law of June 11, 1948, provided for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial establishments, banks and insurance companies, whereby all farms were expropriated, regardless of ethnicity.
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.
Demographic development
The demographic development in driving weather is similar to other former German villages in the Banat. 1910 presented the 3,378 Germans from Triebswetter a population share of 93%. After the Second World War the number from increased steadily due to emigration. 1977 were still alive in the 1454 German place ( of a total of 3,585 inhabitants ), which represented a population share of 41 %. In 1992 there were only 11 % of the total population, or 383 out of 2,927 German residents. Today drive weather is a majority Romanian village.
Personalities
- Bonnaz Alexander (1812-1889), Bishop of the Diocese Csanád
- Peter Treffil (1858-1935) historian
- Hans Damas (1906-1998) lawyer, initiator de French action
- Rudolf Chati (1913-1984) actor and athletics athletes
- Franz Dinyer (1926-2003) Opera singer
- Franz Thomas Schleich ( * 1848), writer and journalist
- Anton Palfi (* 1946), journalist