Feketitsch lies on the train line
between Belgrade and Budapest; 47 km. south of Subotica (Maria Theresiopel) and
52 km. north of Novi Sad (Neusatz). The (Vizinal?) vicinity? train
Feketitsch-Palanka connects to the Belgrade-Budapest main line here. When
the community was settled in July 1785 with 250 homes, the whole village lie on
the right shore of the Krivaja Stream, in the valley which is rimmed by the
Teletschka Hills all around. The streets were made straight with a plough,
just as in the German villages, the same engineer did the work. The
descendent of the engineer: Köröskenyi - who surveyed not only the boundaries of
Feketitsch but also of the surrounding communities of Sekitsch and Vrbas, still
lived in Feketitsch in the '50's in house number 303, which housed the
Evangelical choirmaster's apartment after that. The position of the
village was such that the main street was at the same time the stretch of road
from Topola to Srbobran. It had no windows since it was a cross street.
This first changed in 1870 when the village turned so its main street faced the
other way.
In this respect when the small valley
and the course of the crooked Kriviaja Stream are taken into consideration, the
streets lay in an east-west direction so that one side of the street faces the
south and the other looks to the north. This position of the streets is
not the most favorable because in the wintertime the rooms on the street receive
no sun so they are damp and unhealthy. In the parts of the village built
on later the streets run in the direction of the Teletschka Hills from south to
north. In the "Putriken" the small homes stand higgledy-piggledy, which
cling to the side of one of the hills. They are almost like the swallow's
nest that sticks out on the hill.
The village that started in the
valley with 250 houses today has 1500 house numbers. Six times the room
was necessary, so they lengthened the street on the west side of the community
so it led to the not too steep slopes of the Teletschka Hills. Then the
village was widened in the direction frequented by the public over the Krivaja
Stream where the small crooked steep lane in the romantic charming Putriken led
up to the Teletschka plateau. Here the village was widened farther out. -
Also towards the south the community was widened with three streets. Alone
in the north direction towards Sekitsch there was at first shortly before the
World War one street from the outermost row and the main street could be
built out to the former Schladt's Mill. That is hardly 100 meters.
During the same time much land was successfully developed. Where there was
formerly an over flooded region today there are lavish (Klec-?), vegetable-, and
fruit gardens. Along the shore there is a row of willow trees. But
the Eldorado of the ducks and fish is in it.
