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Hrastovac -
Eichendorf Families
1865-1900 :
A Registry of Families of the
German Lutheran Mother Church
in a Village in Slavonia by
Rosina T.
Schmidt
ISBN: 1-4107-1663-5 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1-4107-1662-7 (e-book)
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| The Author,
Rosina T. Schmidt, is herself of
Danube Swabian decent. Her
grandfather Schmidt was born in
Hrastovac in 1878 and after Ms.
Schmidt’s early retirement
she finally had the time to
follow her lifelong curiosity to
explore her roots. This curiosity
turned into a passion and the
more she explored the wider her
eyes were opened to the
incredible journey, which the
ethnic Germans traveled in their
250 years in their adopted Danube
Swabian homeland. First turning a
wasteland, which the Turkish
occupation of southern Europe
left behind after they have been
expelled at the end of 17th
century, into a bountiful
breadbasket. And then how
everything was lost with their
expulsion in 1944. Ms. Schmidt
herself was a refugee from
Yugoslavia, returning first with
her family to their original
homeland of Germany and
emigrating later to Canada. Ms.
Schmidt is a mother of three
children and lives in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. About
the Book:
In this
monumental research work every
parishioner’s birth,
marriage and death, which was
registered in the church books of
the Hrastovac (Eichendorf)
Lutheran mother church between
1865 – 1900 not only for the
village of Hrastovac in Slavonia,
but for the neighboring branch
parishes of Franjevac now
Strizicevac, Kapetanovo Polje,
Mali- and Veliki Bastaji, Mlinska, Pasijan and other
smaller centers, is to be found
in alphabetical order and grouped
in families. The village of
Hrastovac, its German name was
Eichendorf, and its parish was
established in 1865 by mainly
ethnic German settlers from the
areas of the Swabian Turkey:
Hungarian counties of Baranja,
Somogy and Tolna and formally
part of the Empire of
Austro-Hungary. In 1944 those
Hrastovac settlers had to flee
their beloved adopted homeland,
leaving everything behind. Today
their descendants are living all
over the globe. Hrastovac is now
part of Croatia.
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