Talk:Vrbas, Serbia/Archive 1

Archive 1

Calvinist or Orthodox church?

There is a problem with recent edit of anonymous user who changed description on the picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vrbas_%28town%29&diff=111363580&oldid=107058124 I really have no idea is this Calvinist or Orthodox church (perhaps in the past it was Calvinist and now is Orthodox?), so it would be nice if somebody know more about this - i.e. if somebody know is this Calvinist or Orthodox church? PANONIAN (talk) 13:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi! That church is a building of the Calvinist Reformed Church. The interesting thing is that the members of the Calvinist Reformed Church in Vojvodina region have been mostly Hungarian speaking people, but not in Vrbas! They were German speaking people, unlike most of the Germans in Vojvodina, who were mostly Catholics.

The Hungarian Protestants became Calvinist during the Reformation mostly to emphasize their "difference", that is to say that they have a different confession from the Germans, and the Slovaks, who - when they were Protestants - belonged mostly to the Lutheran variaty of Protestantism. In this way there was a clear situation conserning confessions and church buildings and there was a sane rivalry between them. That is why such a relatively small town like Vrbas in the middle of Backa have got so many magnificent ecclesiatical buildings. --Vedran.b 13:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

It would be also interesting to mention in the article that Vrbas was the place in which the Methodist Mouvement began in the entire region. The Methodist Church is quite a small one in the entire Central-Europe, however, it is an interesting chapter of the cultural development of the region. Last year, there was the 100th anniversary of the Methodist Church in Vrbas, that is why the church has been renovated, although it has hardly 20 members in the entire town. The Methodist in Vrbas separeted themselves from the other Protestant churches, that is to say from the Calvinist and the Lutheran ones. This also mean, that the faithful of these churches were predominantly German speaking people, and we know the fate of these people in that region. That is why these othervise magnificent buildings stay mostly empty nowadays. I saw a few picture on the recently renovated church building on Hungarian Wikipedia, but it is, unfortunately, not a terribly good quality --Vedran.b 13:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

This does not explain why anonymous user wrotte that it is Orthodox church. Do you have any explanation for that? PANONIAN (talk) 20:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Hungarian wikipedia says that the church is Calvinist, I think --Bojan 14:00, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I say that the church is Calvinist. I am from Vrbas. Why don`t have Orthodox church on picture? 77.105.47.59 (talk) 18:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Probably because nobody took the picture. If You can do it, please upload image under a free license. -- Bojan  18:52, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

My Father was born in Vrbas, like his Father, and his Great Grandfather before him. Our family were Lutheran, and if I can find some old pictures of the church they attended before 1942, I will scan and post it. It would also be wonderful to obtain birth records of the peoples born there before that dreadful second world war. 76.216.233.200 (talk) 14:23, 30 August 2008 (UTC) Dregischan 2008/08/30

German population fled?

"German population fled from the town after this war." Is this true? Wikipedia articles about Odžaci, Apatin and Danube Swabian seem to be more realistic by saying for Odžaci "the German majority (the highest percentage of any major town in the Vojvodina, ahead of Vrbas and Apatin), by then known as Danube Swabians, were labeled collectively guilty for their connection to the Axis invasion, and were expelled, interned, or killed." or for Apatin "The antifascist council for deliberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) declared its mainly German population as public enemies. The death toll among the German population of Apatin amounts to 2,074 people known by name. This figure includes the victims of deportation to the USSR" or Danube Swabian "After the war, many of the Germans of Yugoslavia, who by this point were mostly women, children, or elderly, were held in camps made out of their former towns, such as the ones at Knićanin and Molin"

Sorry I understand the ban is only connected to political issues, but now I understand that it also applies to all. So I'll stop now.--Nado158 (talk) 21:27, 23 February 2013 (UTC)