Tovariševo

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Tovariševo (Serbian: Tovariševo or Товаришево, German: Towarisch, Hungarian: Bácstóváros or former Tovarisova, Croatian: Tovariševo) is a village in Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

Tovariševo is located in the South Bačka District. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Bačka Palanka.

History

Tovariševo is one of old Serbian communities of the Vojvodina. It was first mentioned in 1543. A description from the end of the 18th century (by András Vályi) states that "Tovarisova is a Rac (Serbian) village in Bács county. The landowner is the Royal Hungarian Chamber and the population follows the old faith (ie. orthodox). The black soil gives wheat, barley and oats, the village has an oak forest and a bad vineyard; it hasn't any water, but after the long autumn rains the soil became sodden; it lacks reed but it has silk-beetles. The nearest market-town is Újvidék (Novi Sad), where people can earn money from the sale of cattle."

After 1843 a German minority settled in the village next to the Serbs, and they built a big Roman-Catholic church dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo in 1882. The population of Tovariševo was 3,439 (2,281 Serb and 844 German) in 1880, and 3,875 (with 850 German) in 1921.

After the second world war the Germans were expulsed. In 2002 the population was 3,103 (2,583 Serb, 278 Roma).

Sights

In the middle of the village stands the baroque Serb-Orthodox Church, dedicated to Saint Gregory the Theologian (Bogoslov) and the Roman-Catholic Church. The later is almost derelict because today it has only a weak Croatian and Hungarian congregation.

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