History of Temerin

Temerin was, according to the widely accepted data, first time mentioned in 1332. year in the Pope`s receipt to Laurentie de Temeri. According to the data of the Magazine of the Historic Society in Novi Sad the earliest mentioning of Temerin was in 1267. Near Temerin was place called "Aranja" and in 1762. year the old Church in Temerin was called "Aranja`s Klisa". Temerin was part of the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom until 1526. year when after the Mohac battle started Turkish period. Budim`s Pashaluk was formed in 1542. year. Temerin was then part of Turkish-Otoman Empire. Backa was in Segedin`s district which was divided into 6 parts: Bajska, Backa, Segedin, Sombor, Subotica and Titel. The Titel`s district was the smallest and in it was Temerin. Whole district had 20 settlements with 143 homes. Later, in 1570. year it had 24 settlements with 313 homes, and 20 years later it had 28 settlements with 617 homes.

Turks had precise tax books-defter`s. Tax books from 1553. year say that Temerin had 11 homes, 4 were paying taxes and 7 not. Next year Temerin had 5 homes that were paying taxes. Term ,,home,, is the house with 10 to 20 family members.

The first list name by name of the Temerin inhabitants was in Segedin`s tax book from 1560-1561. year. The Duke was Radica Stepan. There were 20 homes paying taxes at that time. Based on data from tax books, inhabitants of that time were mostly raising corns, vegetables, fruits and bees.

Near Temerin was the village Almas, on the river Jegricka. The data of the Almas we have on the Map off M. Stira from 1664. year foto. On the map I. Miler from 1709. year Temerin was North from Novi Sad foto. Excellent historian Erdujhelji was paying special attention on this settlement because their inhabitants moved to Novi Sad, and since then that part of Novi Sad is called "Almaski", and the Orthodox Church they built "Almaska Church".

According to D. Ruvarac from 1772. year Temerin was Serbian settlement with 62 Serbian homes and three Orthodox Priests: Father Misko, Father Mihajlo and Father Petar. The number of homes were raising all the time. In 1769. year it had 208, 1773. it had 183 and in 1786. Temerin had 215 Serbian homes. In that year there were 5 Orthodox Priests in Temerin. From that period we have the first army map of Temerin, like a settlement who had four rows of houses, and the trench long 14 kilometers around the settlement. On the map is The Old Serbian Village Temerin from1783. year foto

According to the foundation of Ilirian court from 1772. year there was a school since 1742. year foto. There was thought reading, writing, church songs and prayers. The school expenses were paid by community, which pays a teacher as well.

According to the data from 1720. year the duke of Temerin was Radojica Parastinac, in the period of 1725. to 1726. the Duke was Josim Ratkovic, in 1730. the Duke was Mladen Kusovin and then since 1770. for many years the duke was Gaja Grujic.

At that time Temerin was rich and developed settlement, the inhabitants built big and beautiful Orthodox Church. The Church was at the beginning of the today`s Bosnian street, on the right side, between today`s house numbers 2 and 10. Beside army map the proof for that are church books still kept in the Church in the village Djurdjevo.

The Church in Temerin was built of bricks (in lot of other villages churches were built of wood). Dimensions of the church were 17 meters long, and 6,5 meters wide, height was 6 meters. It had tower near the main building, 11 separate windows with iron bars. The church was built by Johan Milner. The work was directed by the church episkop Visarion Pavlovic.

The elementary school in church attended famous Lukijan Musicki who was born in Temerin in 1777 foto. He was the professor and writer who spoke several languages. He was the friend and associate of Vuk Karadzic, and he added letter "Dj" to Vuk`s alphabet.

The biggest part of Backa at that time was Komorkso Dobro. It was sold to Count Sandor Secenji for 80.000 forints.

Directed settlement of Hungarians started in 1782, and since 1787. settlement of Germans started as well. At that year they settled in Backi Jarak. On that place was the old settlement mentioned in 1267. year called Ireg which means ditch, named after trench which was at that place since Roman period. The Germans from Wirtemberg settled in Jarak.

Since 1782. year Temerin was mixed settlement with Serbs, Hungarians and Germans.

The Count Sandor Secenji tried to transform Serbian population into serfdom but Serbs tried to join Sajkas Battalion. They didn`t succeed in that, and on 21July 1799. Serbs left Temerin. The Committee stopped them in moving out and they made a list of 178 families that wanted to leave Temerin. After a few months 210 families wanted to leave with almost 1600 people. In the spring of 1800. year they took their houses and church down and took everything they had with them to Djurdjevo. After 5 years they rebuilt their church in Djurdjevo, even bigger than it was before. That was the one generation which in 56 years rebuilt two big churches. The unique case in history!

In the next 120 years Temerin was without any Serbs living in it, and the Count Secenj brought Hungarians from Pest, Feher and Tolna and some Slovaks, as well. Between 1796. and 1804. year Count Secenj built palace Kastel which is in Temerin till today`s date.Today in it is Technical School.

Temerin`s Palace and all Count Secenj`s property was bought by Antal Fernbah from Apatin. Successors Ana and Peter Fernbah kept the property until 1920. year.

Temerin was in 1799. year announces as a little town and had 4 cattle fairs a year. Catholic Church was built in 1804. year and the old school was built in 1835. year.

In the tempestuous 1848, year Temerin was burnt to the ground completely, and the inhabitants run away to north, to Backa Topola, Mali Idjos, Cantavir etc. They came back to Temerin after 2-3 years.

Railroad Novi Sad-Temerin was built and opened on 2nd July 1899. year. That was the beginning of the industrial development of Temerin, like opening of  brick plant and steam mills. That way Temerin soon became one of the most important economic center in the south-east Backa.