Absolutely amazing! Thank you! John "We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese On Aug 14, 2010, banat-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Re: House construction (Cathy Deschu) 2. Rekasch, Temesrekas, Secas (Boglarka Lazar) 3. FW: Rekasch, Temesrekas, Recas (Nick Tullius) 4. re Lugosch FB CD (Marilyn Fedewa) 5. Ich denke oft an Piroschka (Dave Dreyer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:45:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Cathy Deschu <cjdeschu@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] House construction To: Eve <evebrown@gmail.com>, "banat-l@rootsweb.com" <banat-l@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <371578.54691.qm@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii What a wonderful site. Thanks for posting it. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Eve <evebrown@gmail.com> wrote: Perhaps this will help Elinor The Typical Danube Swabian Home http://www.dvhh.org/heritage/village_life/house/index.htm Includes: House Floor Plans Settlement Plans Property Lots Cost of a Settlers House Home Furnishings Old Lighting Used Typical Swabian Kitchen Whitewashing Daily Chores Water Sources Building & Maintenance Front Court Yard Back Court Yard Salasch Stenciling Enjoy, Eve On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Elinor <eantis@verizon.net> wrote: I am writing a book/booklet for my husbands family on their family history. I am also trying to include whatever I can about life in the Banat in the early years. My question for now is: How were the houses actually constructed? Their house in Ernsthausen was apparently one big room with two windows on the front. I've seen pictures and there appear to be houses with either one or two windows across the front. Were they built of some kind of concrete blocks, or some kind of adobe type material? What were and how were the roofs constructed? Thank you for any kind of information. Elinor Antis ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:30:38 +0200 From: "Boglarka Lazar" <strombus@t-online.hu> Subject: [BANAT-L] Rekasch, Temesrekas, Secas To: "'Banat List'" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <003e01cb3afc$7bd4bbe0$737e33a0$@hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" FYI According to the 1910 census Rekasch had 4321 inhabitants Out of that 1832 were German, 1236 Hungarian, 970 Sokatz, 215 Romanian. Religion: 3965 Roman Catholic, 230 Greek Orthodox, 53 Jewish. Sokatz is a Southern Slavic nation, they were Roman Catholic. Best regards, Bogl?rka ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:05:29 -0400 From: "Nick Tullius" <ntullius@sympatico.ca> Subject: [BANAT-L] FW: Rekasch, Temesrekas, Recas To: <Banat-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP32B9F6EA8529B558286ADBB1980@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" According to information published at http://www.kulturraum-banat.de/ Rekasch was first mentioned in 1359. Apparently it always had a truly multicultural population. Some more recent population numbers are as follows: In 1930: 4210 inhabitants, out of which 1687 (40.1%) ethnic Germans In 1992: 4905 inhabitants, out of which 202 (4.1%) ethnic Germans. Note that a large number of Germans left their villages and the only homes they ever knew after the fall of Ceausescu in 1989. According to a story, dated 06/15/1859, by Stol N?nyi, village notary in a Batschka village, and self-described as "schokazisch": "... The Schokazen or Schokatzen, Sok?cok in Hungarian, ?okci in Serbian, are descendants of late 17th-century Serb refugees from the former southern Hungary and the Raska Herzegovina, a subgroup of ivakian Croats..." I have to correct my perception that they were just simply Croats. Best regards, Nick Tullius -----Original Message----- From: banat-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:banat-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Boglarka Lazar Sent: 13-Aug-10 11:31 To: 'Banat List' Subject: [BANAT-L] Rekasch, Temesrekas, Secas FYI According to the 1910 census Rekasch had 4321 inhabitants Out of that 1832 were German, 1236 Hungarian, 970 Sokatz, 215 Romanian. Religion: 3965 Roman Catholic, 230 Greek Orthodox, 53 Jewish. Sokatz is a Southern Slavic nation, they were Roman Catholic. Best regards, Bogl?rka ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:10:57 -0400 From: Marilyn Fedewa <mhfedewa@comcast.net> Subject: [BANAT-L] re Lugosch FB CD To: BANAT-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <AANLkTinXEy0hbGy070EHxbPk_ZAVD3qCNaDpdzuRUAdf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, I guess this is for Dave Dreyer. Is there a USD price when ordering the Lugosch CD through you? Primarily, though, I wonder based on what you said about Lugosch being an important administrative center, and one of the earliest settled places in the Banat, if I have no known family activity there, would that just be a total shot in the dark for me to get it? Thanks, Marilyn (Searching HEH, HOFFMANN, DILL/TILL in Ernsthausen; CHRIST, GESTRICH in Hatzfeld) ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:51:04 -0700 From: "Dave Dreyer" <ddreyer@pacbell.net> Subject: [BANAT-L] Ich denke oft an Piroschka To: "Banat List" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <C6A240E1A6B042B489929C5FAD40FBB0@D99J3Q21> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Some years ago we had an extensive discussion of the classic German film, "Ich denke oft an Piroschka". This movie was filmed in the Banat about 1953 and recounts a visit of a German student with a family in the Banat. It contains many scenes which illustrate Banat life in the interwar years. At the time this matter came up on the list it was a trial to find a VHS source of the film. Dolores Barber tells me that the film is now available on DVD through German Amazon. 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