Kruščica () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (71.38%) with a sizable Czech minority (23.35%) and a population of 989 people, according to the 2002 census.
Name Names in other languages: , , .
Czech minority
The first Czechs appeared in Kruščica in 1834. Settlers from the first wave of Czech immigrants came from Czech settlement villages in the mountains of the Romanian Banat – from Gârnic, Ravensca, Șumița and Bigăr. Subsequently, Czechs also started moving to Kruščica directly from the Czech lands, mostly from central and south-western Bohemia. Currently (2022), the Czech association in Kruščica operates in the village, which also manages the local Czech cultural house. In the past, there was a Czech school in Kruščica (it closed in 1964), today Czech language is taught by a teacher sent by the Foreign Cooperation House (of course, he also works in other Czech settlements of the Serbian Banat). The Czechs there are mostly Roman Catholic, in 1912 they were behind the building of the Church of St. Wenceslas, in which mass is celebrated in Czech to this day.
Historical population
1961: 1,738 1971: 1,478 1981: 1,279 1991: 1,185 2002: 989
Gallery
See also Kruščica Rebellion List of places in Serbia List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links Map of the Bela Crkva municipality showing the location of Kruščica