Beschka has been visited annually since about 1910 by the former Beschka Germans and treated friendly by the old citizens there.  On the fourth Beschka meeting in Echterdingen in 1968 the Beschka Germans donated 326. + Deutsch Mark for the repair of the chimes in the Beschka orthodox church, which would celebrate its 200th Kirchweih festival.

          Through the immigration from Montenegro, from the Lika and other “passive regions” the population census has increased tremendously.  The community has about 10,000 inhabitants today.  The streets are paved, and many artesian wells were drilled.  A central school was built and school attendance was extended to the 15th year.  The Evangelical church was leveled, while the Reformed church was saved by the Reformed Hungarians in Beschka.  Their German cemetery is overgrown, but not destroyed.  Many new streets exist, for example in the neighborhood of Gabertschen brick ovens, west of the train station.  The farmers are allowed to keep up to 10 hectares of their fortunes, while the former German fortunes in the Kolchos were administered.

 

[Published at DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr, 2005] 

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