Luč

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 435 people.[3]

Luč
Village
Luč is located in Osijek-Baranja County
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Luč is located in Croatia
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Luč is located in Europe
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Coordinates: 45°47′07″N 18°32′08″E
Country Croatia
RegionBaranya
County Osijek-Baranja
MunicipalityPetlovac
Area
[1]
 • Total3.6 sq mi (9.4 km2)
Elevation
300 ft (90 m)
Population
 (2021)[2]
 • Total322
 • Density89/sq mi (34/km2)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
31300 Beli Manastir
Area code(+385) 31

Until the end of World War II, the majority of the Inhabitants was Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because there Ancestors once came at the 17th century and 18th century from Fulda (district).[4] Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, about the Potsdam Agreement.[5]

Population
Population data graph 1857.-2011.[6]
population
1226
1172
1119
1133
1111
1138
1050
1076
1014
947
987
896
726
735
487
435
1857186918801890190019101921193119481953196119711981199120012011
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 ethnicityPopulation by religion

total: 1,138

  Šokci 730 (64.14%)
  Germans 276 (24.25%)
  Hungarians 107 (9.40%)
  Slovaks 18 (1.58%)
  Serbs 6 (0.52%)
  Croats 1 (0.08%)

total: 1,138

  Roman Catholics 1,115 (97.97%)
  Jewish 13 (1.14%)
  Eastern Orthodox 6 (0.52%)
  Calvinists 4 (0.35%)

References
  1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
  2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2021 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
  3. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Luč". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  4. "Die Stiffoller und der Stiffolder" (PDF) (in German). FEKED.
  5. "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
  6. 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;

See also
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