Ečka

The Kaštel castle, built in 1820, by count Lukács

Tower in Ečka

Ečka (Ечка) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,513 people (2002 census).

Name and history

In Serbian, the village is known as Ečka (Ечка), in Romanian as Iecica Română, in Croatian as Ečka, in German as Deutsch-Etschka, and in Hungarian as Écska (until 1899: Német-Écska).

The village was merged with former settlement known as Mala Ečka (Мала Ечка) in Serbian, Alt Etschka in German, and Román-Écska or Olahécska in Hungarian.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Serbs = 2,483 (55.02%)
• Romanians = 1,325 (29.36%)
• Hungarians = 196 (4.34%)
• Yugoslavs = 123 (2.73%)
• Roma = 72 (1.60%)

Historical population

• 1900: 4,892
• 1931: 5,207
• 1948: 3,934
• 1953: 4,188
• 1961: 4,323
• 1971: 4,621
• 1981: 5,293
• 1991: 5,172

Trivia

• Franz Liszt played piano at Kaštel castle as a nine-year-old boy.

References

1. Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
2. Msgr. Erős Lajos, Adalékok a Zrenjanini-Nagybecskereki Egyházmegye történetéhez, 1993. (Additamenta ad historiam Diocesis Zrenjaninensis-Nagybecskerekensis)

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

External links

• Ečka
• About Ečka

Additional Pictures

• 
  The Serbian Orthodox Church, the oldest church in Ečka, built in 1711
• The Romanian Orthodox Church
  The Romanian Orthodox Church
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  Main street and the Catholic Church
• The Catholic Church
  The Catholic Church

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