Luč (Hungarian: Lőcs, German: Lutsch, Serbian Cyrillic: Луч) is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Petlovac municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County. Population is 322 people.[3]
Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).[4] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, consequent to the Potsdam Agreement.[5]
Population
Population data graph 1857.-2021.[6]
| population | 1226 | 1172 | 1119 | 1133 | 1111 | 1138 | 1050 | 1076 | 1014 | 947 | 987 | 896 | 726 | 735 | 487 | 435 | 322 |
| 1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
Sources: Državni zavod za statistiku
Ethnic composition, 1991. census
| Luč |
|---|
| 1991 |
total: 735 Croats 615 (83.67%) Yugoslavs 54 (7.34%) Serbs 31 (4.21%) Hungarians 9 (1.22%) Slovenes 8 (1.08%) Albanians 4 (0.54%) Ruthenians 3 (0.40%) Germans 2 (0.27%) Montenegrins 2 (0.27%) ethnic Muslims 1 (0.13%) ethnically undeclared 4 (0.54%) unknown 2 (0.27%)
|
Austria-Hungary 1910. census
| Luč | |
|---|---|
| Population by ethnicity | Population by religion |
total: 1,138 Roman Catholics 1,115 (97.97%) Jewish 13 (1.14%) Eastern Orthodox 6 (0.52%) Calvinists 4 (0.35%)
| |
References
- ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
- ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
- ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Luč". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
- ^ "Die Stiffoller und der Stiffolder" (PDF) (in German). FEKED.
- ^ "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
- ^ Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857.-2001., www.dzs.hr Archived 5 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
Literature
- Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., ISBN 953-6667-07-X, ISBN 978-953-6667-07-9;
You must be logged in to post a comment.