Baratzhausen
is situated northwest from Temeschburg on the Banater heath, and belongs
to the municipality of Knees (officially: Satchinez). According to Gheorghe
Drinovan the locality already existed since the 15th Century documentarily
occupancies. (
F 6/7 on the Banat map)
After
the settlement of the Germans, which had a population proportion of over
40 per cent of the start of this century. The village, a Catholic Parish
was a branch of Knees. Since the year 1824 the branch belonged to the Mercydorfer
Parish.
Baratzhausen
(today Barateaz; Hung. Barácsháza, Berndjas, Barnias, Perntjass),
also mentioned by Banater Swabianappropriate
dialect for Berndjas north of the municipality of Knees, which it is connected
with to about 9 km by a long road. The roads also connect to Sink Andres
– Perjamosch. The locality also, has a railway connection, but the stop
is 3 km outside of the village. In 1890 Baratzhausen had 919 inhabitants
and it belonged to the Winga district and was in the Teme Komitat. Since
then the number of inhabitants sank constantly, in 1992 there were only
584 persons. In 1910 the German population consisted of 348 persons, who
had a population proportion of over 42 per cent. In November 1940, 371
Germans had registered in the village. After the war the number of the
Germans sank, so that in 1977 among the 634 village inhabitants only 128
Germans were constantly corresponded to a population proportion of 20 per
cent.
The
Romanian population rose up to 483 persons. During the census of 1992 one
could tighten only the end of the German community. Among the 584 inhabitants
of the village were only 5 persons, who professed themselves to the Deutschtum,(Germanic).
This number was still acknowledged also in February. The population consisted
at that time except the 5 Germans, 544 Romanians, 13 Hungarians, 11 gypsies,
and 11 others. In this position one is not to be surprised also that the
Germans from Baratzhausen in the today's Romanian press of the Banat are
not any longer mentioned. Otherwise the German press of the Banat had to
report nothing more in the last 15 years also on Baratzhausen. Only the
daily paper "Renasterea Banateana " (Reborn Banat) published some reports
in the years 1996-97, in which the correct townscape of the today's “Barateaz
" was described. After the structures of the " socialist agriculture "
disintegrated after the fall of Ceausescus, the old Nomenklatura everything
tried to do, in order to save for itself, which was to be still saved.
This also belonged to the Praeses the local LPG Ilie Pepa, which on the
structure of the "socialist " LPG, which " Egreta " structured free market
" agriculture association ". To its chairmen naturally Pepa " was baptized
". In the possession of this association now also the medieval castellan
is, in 18. Century was again established and to its last owners count was
Mihály Méhész. The Soviet army or castellan for the
trifle of 80.000 Lei, vacated of the “Securities”, had bought the LPG.
How it came into the possession of theAgriculture
association led by Pepa, nobody knows. One knows only that the castellan
is booked since 1994 with a value of 13.665.957 Lei in the registers of
the association " Egreta ".
In 1990 the cattle farms of the Baratzhausener LPG were also sold off to
a Syrer named Mohamed Abdul for only 4.7 million Lei, an amount, which
was far under real value of the farms. One wanted to sell at that time,
when in the " post office-revolutionary " Romania the chaos prevailed,
as fast as possible the farm and to divide the profits among the LPG members.
However since then the farms were already sold twice, this would have been
brought to the attention of the authorities. Therefore the tax office had
not only taken no controls, but no bookkeeping was led.On
the farms, normally one cannot find a person except some poorly paid Romanianhelper
and her foreman a responsible person. The cattle farms became unprofitable
as soon as possible, sheep breedingwas
impossible without the appropriate conditions. Pastures are missing in
the proximity, and therefore the animals are evacuated toward Constanza
in closed spaces. Since this is against the nature of the sheep, a large
part of the live-stocks under all-worst agonies ends. The ill and hurt
sheep are not treated and are not put to sleep, but they must after Islamic
custompainful starve. The animals are killed and then burned
in an improvised crematorium, and their ashes are buried. The village inhabitants
of Baratzhausen are very indignant because of these bad states inconceivable
for the Banat.
The
remainder of the fields are situated fallow and unproductively there. One
has now the so much desired land and not the necessary agriculture machines
or animals and still fewer work desire. These farmers required themselves
to be able to bring an entrepreneur in, who they could lease, their fields,
without special diligence and sweat, at least one part of the harvest.
This takes time for years; Banater Swabian, which would’ve done that, but
they don’t exist in Baratzhausen no more. The fact that one can achieve
something nevertheless with diligence had proven in the previous year a
director of the Temeschburger"
Avicola ". Petru Arnautu, a trained veterinary surgeon, created a private
chicken farm in June 1997 in an empty-standing house.This was
so successful that according to predicates of the " Farmers " this could
erase its start credit at a value of five million Lei after only two months.(!).
At first he bought 300 pieces of day-chicks, which weight 1.600 kg, each,
and which produced daily 250 eggs after only 42 days. Soon after a monthly
net profit at a value of three million Lei. At the beginning it functioned
the farm as " one-man operation ", in which the veterinary surgeon maintained
its up to 1.000 chickens. It prepared the fodder after own prescriptions,
inoculated the poultry, and executed vitamins, exactly the same, as written
in the books.
