Village of Hrastovac
As your Village Coordinator for
the Danube Swabian village of HRASTOVAC, also known under
its German name of EICHENDORF, I would like to welcome
you to our pages. Hrastovac was a thriving village during
the period of its original ethnic German
inhabitants and deserves to have its memory kept alive.
Only a few years ago finding any ancestral information on that village involved a
major undertaking. First the City Hall was telephoned
to find out if the registry books were available
and where they were kept. The telephone call was followed
with letters to the "maticni ured" (vital
registry office) in Garesnica, today's district city
hall, then to the archives in Bjelovar, Osijek and
Zagreb, followed by more calls, faxes and e-mails until a
break-through was reached.
The following pages hopefully
will save you, dear reader, all of those steps. All the
information on Hrastovac and its branch parishes
until ca. 1900 is gathered here for you. For more recent
data, because of the international privacy laws,
you will have to write directly to the city hall in
Garesnica, Croatia.
For any questions or suggestions
please contact me directly.
Rosina T. Schmidt
All material © 2002
Rosina T. Schmidt, unless otherwise noted
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