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Village Coordinator. Includes history, photos, genealogical research aids for Deutschbentschek (Deutsch Bentschek, Bencecu de Sus, Bencsek, Felsöbencsek, Németbencsek).
Oct 3, 2020 · Deutschbentschek is located in the 11,000-square-mile area called the Banat. When Deutschbentschek was founded, the Banat was part of the Habsburg Empire. The area has changed hands two times since. More recently, in 1920, the two-thirds of the Banat that includes Deutschbentschek became part of Romania. before 1860
Mar 8, 2019 · Deutschbentschek: ein Dorf im Banat. Heilbronn: Selbstverlag, 1985. 396 pages written in German. Includes names and some photos of villagers serving in the various armies over time and those deported to the Soviet camps in 1945.
Donauschwaben are the descendants of German-speaking settlers who settled in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary in the 18th century. They were settled there by the Habsburg emperors and private landlords after the wars against the Ottoman Empire.
During the eighteenth century, the Habsburg monarchy of Austria, which ruled Hungary at that time, had enticed Germans to emigrate to the unsettled lands of Southern Hungary, which had been devastated by over 150 years of Turkish occupation.
Family lineage book for Deutsch Bentschek, Banat, Austria; later Németbencsek, Temes, Hungary; now Dencecu German, Temeş, Romania. Includes the surrounding villages of Rumänischbenschek, Janowa, Herneakowa, Nadasch, Stantschowa.
Mar 29, 2019 · The Donauschwaben, or Danube Swabians, is a name used to describe the Germans who immigrated to provinces in Southern Hungary beginning in the early 1700s along the Danube River valley after the Turks were expelled.
