Velimirovac

Velimirovac is a place in Osijek-Baranja County , a part of the metropolis of Nasica. By the time of the Second World War Velimirovac was mostly inhabited by the Germans . According to the 1910 census, Velimirovac had 797 population, of which 764 were Germans . Velimirovac was named after the Count Velimir Pejacevic , at the start it become referred to as Jelisavac for the wife of Count Velimir, Jelisaveti, but she did not allow it because she become very pious, and Velimirov had been inhabited by means of Protestants of German nationality. The Germans are coming maximum from Backa in Vojvodina round 1880 , and on the summoning of the Count to forge the forests and convert them to the fields.

All population as in Jelisavac, Markovecand Breznici have concluded contracts with Pejacevic Counts on land use. Most Germans leave the village earlier than the Partisans arrive and visit Austria . Those who remained in May 1945 were employed within the Valpovo Workers' Camp because new government attributed collective guilt to all members of German nationality irrespective of age and intercourse. Everyone has seized assets, so maximum after returning from the camp, wherein some have left their lives, has no place to move returned and be expelled in Austria and Germany.