Vatin

Vatin (Cyrillic: Ватин, Hungarian: Versecvát ) is a village in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. Vatin is (Serbian: Yuzhno - Banatski Okrug ) in the municipality of Vršac, in the district of southern Banat. The village population is made up of a Serbian majority and the Hungarian minority. In 2002 Vatin had 250 inhabitants, while it is still 316 inhabitants in 1991. The village is situated away from the community center Vršac 82 m above sea level in the southeast of the Pannonian Plain, 14 km to the east. Most of the population is Christian Orthodox.

History

Throughout history, the village Vatin had many names. The first name Vodad, dates from 1334, followed Vadah (1414), Vat ( 1421 ), Vattina ( 1717), the Hungarian name Verseczát (1911 ), and finally the current Vatin in 1919.

The village was founded as a parish in 1333 by a priest Nikolai and got the name Vodad. The first settlers were Serbs. 1411 was Joakim (Jacob ) Badad mayor of the settlement. 1414 lived in this settlement the Hajduks Matija and Emerik Vadah that gave its second name of the settlement. 1421 Vat by Count Jovan (John ) Nađlak now ruled. After his death in 1427, King Sigismund Vat gave the Baron Albert Nađmihalj. When his son Georg treachery practiced at the king, Sigismund Vat donated to the Hungarian Count Šarvarin. The family never Nađmihalj relatives the loss of Vat, yet in 1550 they tried to recover Vat when it was donated to the Serbian Count Petar Petrović. In 1597, King Sigismund II Vat sold to Baron Vukašin Pribek. Thus, the village Vatin experienced in the Middle Ages a very diverse membership of various counties and kingdoms.

In 1713 Vat consisted of 18 households. 1716 Vat the municipality of Vršac was slammed. Vat, called in 1717 Vattina, 1717 consisted of 27 households, in 1749 there were 36 households and 34 households in 1751. In the 1730s, today's Orthodox church was built in 1874 and renovated so that it was re-consecrated in 1874. In 1859, the Serbian Count Viktor and Ladislav Đirkić bought the village, including lands. 1855, the Catholic Church today is built. 1869 had Vattina 510 inhabitants. In 1890 there were 581 inhabitants. In 1900 there were 661 inhabitants, 1910 644 inhabitants. 1902 lived in Vattina 135 German who had their own school in German language. In 1891 was in Vattina a train and from 1908 also a railway station. From 1911 Vattina was named by the year 1919 after the Hungarian name Verseczát. 1914, the town hall was renewed. In 1921 Vatin had a Bewölkerungszahl of 521 inhabitants. Even then presented the Serbs, the majority of the population, however, lived in Vatin also minorities of Hungary, Slovaks, Romanians and Germans. 1919 Vatin was separated from the train Vršac - Timisoara and from the railway station was a school.

In Vatin also Ikonostasenbau is operated for centuries icon painting and since 1893 until 1919. Some valuable icons are now in the National Museum in Vršac. This Vatin is one of the centers of icon painting in the Banat.

In addition Vatin is the main habitat of Vatin culture from the Bronze Age.

Documents

• Књига 9, Становништво, упоредни преглед броја становника 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, мај 2004, ISBN 86-84433-14-9
• Књига 1, Становништво, национална или етничка припадност, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, фебруар 2003, ISBN 86-84433-00-9
• Књига 2, Становништво, пол и старост, подаци по насељима, Републички завод за статистику, Београд, фебруар 2003, ISBN 86-84433-01-7