Lovćenac

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The train station in Lovćenac in 2003

Lovćenac (Serbian: Lovćenac or Ловћенац, German: Sekitsch, in the past rarely Winkelsberg, Hungarian: Szeghegy) is a village located in the Mali Iđoš municipality, in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Its population is 3,693 people (2002 census).

1 Name
2 Ethnic groups
3 History
4 Additional Pictures
5 External links

[edit] Name

Its former name in Serbian was Sekić. After the World War II, the village was named Lovćenac by the Montenegrin settlers after Mount Lovćen in Montenegro.

The original Hungarian name of the village was Szeghegy, but Hungarians also used Serbian version of the name in the forms Szikics and Szekics, as well as Germans in the form Sekitsch. One very rare alternative German name was Winkelsberg.

[edit] Ethnic groups

According to the 1971 census, ethnic Montenegrins comprised 70.91% of population of the village. According to the 2002 census, the population of the village numbered 3,693 people, of whom 2,100 were Montenegrins, 1,242 Serbs, and others.

[edit] History

The village first appeared in history in 1476. During the Ottoman rule, the village of Sekić was populated by ethnic Serbs. The ethnic Germans settled there in 1786. These German settlers, originally from all over, came to be a distinct group known as Danube Swabians since 1920. At it's peak, the village had a population of about 6,000 people, mostly Germans. After the World War II, Germans fled from the village, and it was then populated with settlers from Montenegro, who now form a majority of the population. Hungarians formed and still form the majority in neighbouring Feketić and in the larger village of Mali Iđoš.

[edit] Additional Pictures

German-language memorial for soldiers who died in World War I in Sekitsch (Lovćenac), Vojvodina	This memorial, referred to as "de Steen", was erected in 1895 to commemorate those who died in the 1849 battle near Lovćenac between the Croats (led by Jelačić) and the Magyars (led by Guyon).	This emblem, commonly featured on books about the German diaspora from Lovćenac, gives the dates of their habitation.	Szeghegy got its first post office in 1872.
An intersection on the main road in Lovćenac today.	Here stood the Lutheran (German) Church until 1946