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The
first point was largely and completely kept, but the second point could not be
kept long.
Some
years after the settlement, the Turkish war happened in the year 1789.
Each half session farmer had to drive his wagon filled with hay and straw
twice in the winter to the imperial warehouse in Semlin.
One
of the war's ravaged villages
Up to 1851 captive recruits were taken
once every ten years. Court people
went out at night with some brave men to capture them.
When they were successful, mortal danger overwhelmed the young man, they
put him in irons and dragged him to the community house.
On top of that the captives had to be found suitable by the community,
still well bribed. During the war
with Napolean in 1808
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Our
fathers lived from 1866-1914, almost a half century long, in an enviable time of
peace, which through the occupation of Bosnians in 1878 it was hardly disturbed.
For a year the reserve was mobilized and had to be called up.
In August the community had about 20 loads which were ordered to be given
to Bosnia. It affected the large
taxpayers in turn, yet for a good price one could send a representative. The wagon was to be divided between the train and the orderly
service, but the carriage driver came back all in good condition.
But the horse and wagon suffered many times, or were completely
destroyed.
Also the military was already often put up in Feketitsch.
So from September 1877 until July 1878 "the Holoner" were
billeted here. It was this half of
the "Eskadron" (squadron) of the "Ulaner" regiment that
consisted of 78 men and 70 horses. In
each farmer's house were 2 horses and 2 men.
They did not have their own kitchen so they had to be fed in so far as
the housewife prepared the food. The
other half of the squadron lay in Sekitsch.
In 1891 a whole squadron of "Husaren" were billeted here. Sekitsch received no military at this time.
Allegedly the tenants at the time bought alcohol from the "Arendator"
so that the whole squadron came to Feketitsch.
He had certainly made a rough estimate what 140 Husaren on alcohol could demolish in a year.
During
the World War all men between the ages of 18 and 55 were directly inducted into
the military; of the 2000 souls in all, about 450 were armed.
In August Feketitsch already got a sense of a taste and a picture of the
war. A part of "Srem" was
evacuated. The local inhabitants
with their belongings gathered together hurried in a wagon or on foot all day
long through the main street of the village and their lot aroused general
interest. One group stayed here 10
- 14 days until they went back home again.
It is these "Karlovicer" who are still mentioned some years
after the war's end who were billeted in private homes and managed to get along
well with the people of Feketitsch. Because
not all of the inductees could be put up in the first days, many went back.
For the first time all the people who normally stayed at home walked to
the train station. The soldiers'
trains were almost covered with flowers, fruit, and food. However the beginning of fall work still needed all the
halfway capable working hands on the field.
The
women provided the elders and children with work and refused themselves - as
well as they could - because of the war loans and requisitions, which the main
task was less relieving. As aid
workers the captive Russians were soon distributed, which has gone very well
here. The Germans of Feketitsch
came on all fronts and in all lands leading the war.
In the wilderness of the North and East Carpathians, by all the
intertwining swamps of "Wolhinien", in the endless steppes of Russia,
in the middle of the bitter cold of Siberia.
On the rough rocks of the "Karstes", on the mortal field of
"Piave", in the original German land of "Tirol", in the hell
of Albania, on the terrible deadly island of Asinara, Germans of Feketitsch have
stood and the best - 54 in number, have not come back. Today,
after almost 20 years, it seems that it was not the cultivated bayonet's, the
nerve shattering gunfire, all the strangling poison gas, or the dangling body
all day long in a wire enclosure that made the war so horrible and gruesome,
but the hunger, which was all gone in a fury.
But not only the hunger, which on the country road of the dead even the
flesh of the dying was made desirable, but still much more over the mountain of
bodies "Emporwollenden?" and unscrupulous war suppliers.
Are
human beings really so bad that they can never come to a lasting world peace?
Two highly learned theologians dispute this theme in the setting of a
lecture in Feketitsch. The one,
Rev. Berger, read from the Bible where it says that the human being from reason
should not be so bad. The other,
Senior J. Jahn, proved that human beings always only brought laws to carry on
warlike involvement and that peace on Earth was always promised.
During the war there were often one or two school halls furnished for one
unit of convalescing soldiers. They
came for the most part from a hospital and stayed here until their recovery.
The bed linen was set by our women.
At
the scene of the war are also the missing, which the children of the large city
whose care had especially suffered to feel received. During the war our Germans took in a group of poor
undernourished children annually in the summer.
The children were from Vienna. The
village air, the nutritious diet, the many vegetables and fruit - which the
supply in the city had suffered mainly because of the shortage of wagons - soon
made the pale cheeks rosy. The
newly arrived undernourished children could fully recover in 4 to 6 weeks in
Feketitsch.
At
the conclusion of the war the special so-called "Kulner Market"
memorial was made in Feketitsch. Two
enormously long freight trains with all the imaginable worthwhile things were
frozen on the Kulaer stretch. Nobody
was concerned about the general rashness and the irresponsible elements of the
haul. The Serbian soldiers called
here by the village notary brought this to end shortly with their plundering.
In two school halls, one of them was the middle Evangelical school hall,
the military was put up for two months at community cost.
To cover the accumulated expenses for the military the community sold the
trees on the street. The village
could hardly be recognized after the trees were removed.
This act must one as the last which arise from the warlike mentality, was
described. Slowly the soldiers
returned home from captivity in France, Italy, and Russia.
Several in Russia are still missing today.
The
following are listed as war invalids today: Philipp Häußer, Wilhelm Ortag,
Georg Bechtler, Adam Spieß, Fritz Schepp, Johann Arth, Christian Müller,
Andreas Bittlingmayer, Gottfried Gerber.
Several
of them have already died: Philipp Schwebler, Nikolaus Keiper, Peter Ludmann,
Adam Willner, and many others.
The
number of wounded was still much greater.
With
the ending of the war was the "Eland"? in which the world was plunged,
still not long before the end. The
following phenomenon has occurred to a great extent in Germany.
It was the hunger of children after a little bit of bread who were
affected by the afflicted fertile land of our ancestors in the years 1923-24.
The echo of the appeal: "Germans in famine" was virtually
overwhelming to the Germans in Yugoslavia in general and by those in Feketitsch
in particular. The
Swabians………??
