Batarci
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Batarci district is situated in the north-western side of the county, nearby the border with Ukraine, 52 km from Satu Mare. The district comprises, except Batarci, the villages: Comlăuşa, Şirlău and Tămăşeni. All these localities used to be part of the old Ugocea district that was repealed after the First World War, and the part belonging to Romania became territory of the Satu Mare County.
The village had a population of 3470 inhabitants in 2002, of which 89, 38% were Romanians, 10, 58% Hungarians and 0, 04% other nationalities.
The documents from the 13th century and even from the beginning of the 14th century describe the territory as a wide forest with few human settlements. More and more villages are mentioned in documents starting with the 14th century, especially in the second half. The localities Batarci and Comlausa, inhabited by Romanians, are attested in documents in 1378, when the domain with the centre in Nyaláb (Near Korolevo) is given to the voievozi Drag and Ioan. In 1405, the two villages and the entire domain become the property of the Perényi family, the most stable and powerful of the local landlords.
58 German families settle in Batarci, in 1909-1910. They originate in Galitia and they bought a part of the village from the Jewish landlord named Weiss. A school founded by the new-comers used to function in the village in 1925, and it also sheltered a Roman-Catholic chapel. The interesting fact is that they wouldn’t learn the language spoken by the inhabitants-Romanian-, nor the language of the administration-Hungarian-, but they would use only German and Slavonic languages. As a consequence, the German population doesn’t integrate in the local community and leaves the area together with the German army, in 1944. The only German family that stayed in the locality was deported a year later in the USSR.
The main occupations of the villagers are the fruit tree and strawberry growing. They would predominantly cultivate plum trees, as the district is a traditional area for producing palinca. At present, many villagers work abroad (a typical phenomenon for the entire Oas area). The district centre belongs, among other 10 villages, to the Oas micro region, founded in 2006.
The village had a population of 3470 inhabitants in 2002, of which 89, 38% were Romanians, 10, 58% Hungarians and 0, 04% other nationalities.
The documents from the 13th century and even from the beginning of the 14th century describe the territory as a wide forest with few human settlements. More and more villages are mentioned in documents starting with the 14th century, especially in the second half. The localities Batarci and Comlausa, inhabited by Romanians, are attested in documents in 1378, when the domain with the centre in Nyaláb (Near Korolevo) is given to the voievozi Drag and Ioan. In 1405, the two villages and the entire domain become the property of the Perényi family, the most stable and powerful of the local landlords.
58 German families settle in Batarci, in 1909-1910. They originate in Galitia and they bought a part of the village from the Jewish landlord named Weiss. A school founded by the new-comers used to function in the village in 1925, and it also sheltered a Roman-Catholic chapel. The interesting fact is that they wouldn’t learn the language spoken by the inhabitants-Romanian-, nor the language of the administration-Hungarian-, but they would use only German and Slavonic languages. As a consequence, the German population doesn’t integrate in the local community and leaves the area together with the German army, in 1944. The only German family that stayed in the locality was deported a year later in the USSR.
The main occupations of the villagers are the fruit tree and strawberry growing. They would predominantly cultivate plum trees, as the district is a traditional area for producing palinca. At present, many villagers work abroad (a typical phenomenon for the entire Oas area). The district centre belongs, among other 10 villages, to the Oas micro region, founded in 2006.
