Official Name: | Luč |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Croatia Osijek-Baranja County#Croatia#Europe |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 45.7853°N 18.5356°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Croatia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Baranya |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Petlovac |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 9.4 |
Elevation M: | 90 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 322 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 31300 Beli Manastir |
Area Code: | (+385) 31 |
Luč (Hungarian: Lőcs, German: Lutsch, Serbian: 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.
Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).[2] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, consequent to the Potsdam Agreement.[3]