Donauschwaben Team

Profile managers: Germany Project WikiTree [send private message], Lori Zukerman [send private message], and Jacqueline Clark [send private message]

The Team Leaders are Lori Beckett Zukerman and Maggie Nagy .

The Donauschwaben or Danube Swabians ^[1] is a term for the German-speaking population who lived in various countries of southeastern Europe, mainly the Danube River valley. Most were descended from 18th-century immigrants recruited as colonists to repopulate the area and guard the border.

The time period of focus for this team is roughly 1700-1945.

Team

Team members; please add your name to the list here:

• Lori Beckett Zukerman Team Leader. Descendant of families from Kathreinfeld and Sartcha: Birong, Hettrich, Kindl and Weiss.

• Jacqueline Clark
• Michael Kargl
• Susanne Kube
• Maggie Nagy co-leader of Donauschwaben Project. Leader of Hungary Project.
• Florian Straub
• Chad Joseph Stumph, team member. My paternal grandmother's paternal ancestors were Donauschwaben from Kudritz, Hungary, having settled there about 1740. My grandmother's grandparents left Kudritz in 1907 and immigrated to the United States. I am working on a one place study for Kudritz, working primarily from digital copies of the original parish records.

How To Join

• Join the Germany Project
• Join the Donauschwaben Team by replying to this G2G post or posting a comment below.
• Request to be on the trusted list of this page.
• Post a comment on the bottom of this page and tell us why and how you can help us reach our goals
• Welcome! Contact Lori if you have any questions.

Goals

• Create profiles for all the German people who travelled to the outer reaches of the Hapsburg Empire, also known as Austria-Hungary.
• Free space pages for the six major settled regions.
• Categorize and join the people profiles to the main WikiTree
• Pool our knowledge and experience and assist each other.

To Do List

Completed tasks are added to the Tasks Completed list below.

• Create Free space pages for the remaining five settled regions
• Create Free Space pages about customs, heritage, coat of arms etc. (Possibly?)
• Find images for the villages and depicting the fashion and homes
• Possibly a free space page about the migration from the Alsace-Lorraine area
• Possibly create One place studies either by region or village

Tasks Completed

• Creation of a Free Space page for the Banat region
• Creation of a Free Space page for the Batschka region

Team Resources

• Danube Swabian History
• Danube- Swabians.org
• Maps county index - Danube Swanbian Maps
• DVHH.org - Danube Swabian History
• Genealogientz.de - History of the Danube Swabians
• Donauschwaben Cleveland.com - Donauschwaben History
• Donauschwaben Crest
• Trenton Donauschwaben.com - Trenton Donauschwaben Association
• Donauschwaben Society of Chicago
• Donauschwaben Heritage Society
• Donauschwaben-USA.org - History Donauschwaben in den USA
• Genealogienetz.de - History of German settlements in southern Hungry
• Hungary, Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895
• DVHH.org Donasuschwaben Villiages helping hands
• Youtube - Original Donauschwaben. "In der Banater Heide"
• Working Group of Donauschwäbischer Familienforscher -AKDFF
• The Donauschwaben
• The Death Book of the Donauschwaben
• Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) Facebook page
• Bulkes Homepage-archived version

Donasuschwaben im Karpatenbecken

Regions

Donauschwaben villages could be found in six major regions:

• Banat
• Batschka
• Hungarian Highlands
• Swabian Turkey
• Syrmia and Slavonia
• Sathmar

Countries with significant populations

Hungary - 131,951

Romania - 13,510

Serbia - 4,064

Croatia - 2,965

Languages

Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, German

Religion

Roman Catholicism, Lutheran

Related ethnic groups

Germans of Hungary

Germans of Romania

Germans of Serbia

Germans of Croatia

Banat Swabians

Satu Mare Swabians

Coat of Arms

A black eagle representing the protection of the Emperor of Austria

A blue ribbon representing the Danube River

A crescent moon representing the waning of Islamic influence through the withdrawal of the Ottoman Turks

The Sun representing both Prince Eugene of Savoy and the light of Christianity; and

A fortress representing the fortified city of Temeschburg.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia - Danube Swabians