1786        Kula                    60               Catholic

1786        Parabutt             100              Catholic

1786        Ratz-Milititsch      100              Catholic

1786        Brestowatz          150              Catholic

1786        Weprowatz          160              Catholic

1786        Kernei                 100              Catholic

1786        Tschonopl            100              Catholic

1786        Bezdan                  85              Catholic

1786        Stanischitsch        100              Catholic

1786        Almasch               100              Catholic

   Altogether in 12 old (Maria-Theresia) settlements there were 1,255 Catholic and 215 Reformed homes.
– IN SYRMIA:

  1791           Neupasua            Ev. Lutheran

  ????            Neudorf              Ev. Lutheran

   The Protestant settlers were settled essentially only in the newly established villages.  Of the already existing villages only Siwatz and Schowe were settled by Protestants.  However, those who settled there established a new part of the village, Neusiwatz and Neuschowe.  Later they tried to separate the Reformed from the Lutheran in the new villages.  The attempt did not last as nobody wanted to change.  In Torschau they also attempted to build a common church and indeed, first there was a laying of the foundation stone.  As a result two churches were built where each church was as large as the church originally intended for the total community.  They didn’t want one congregation to be inferior to the other.  This proved advantageous so the churches could also reach out to the communities which would be larger later.  The churches of the Protestants built in the Josef’s communities between 1811 and 1820 were erected in the same style, the Baroque style.  I believe the churches were for us old people of Beschka the most beautiful.  The first priests in Josef’s villages were predominantly Slovakian for the Lutherans and predominantly Hungarian for the Calvinists.  The ancestors of these priests were already settled in Hungary during the Turkish rule and were tolerated after the collapse of Turkish rule by the Hapsburgs.  Each priest mastered the German language and held the church service in the German language.  The German settlers only seldom needed a pastor from their original homeland with (Bulkes).

   Of the Josef’s villages listed the nine Protestant villages would be the so-called mother communities (parent communities) of the descending village of Beschka and many other daughter communities.  Beschka also received, however, influxes from other communities of the Batschka.  The most important of these communities are Feketitsch, Altwerbaß, Altker, Kutzura, Katsch, Budisawa (Waldneudorf), Sentivan (Schajkaschsentiwan), and Titel.  Beschka received little influx from the Catholic communities because there were few mixed couples.  The cultural cooperation of the Protestants and Catholics was very sincere and useful for both parties.  The ratio of Catholics and Protestants in Beschka was approximately 2 to 1, 3 to 1 in all of Yugoslavia, because the Catholics were already settled there earlier than the Protestants, especially under Maria-Theresia.  In all of Yugoslavia there were about 500,000 Germans, in all of Hungary with Transylvania (Siebenbürger) and Zipser Sachsen there were about 2 million in 1918.  The Saxons were already sent for in the 12^th century by the national Hungarian king of the land and they took on the Evangelical-Lutheran beliefs in Turkish times.  So they were there before the Tolerance Act and they were tolerated.