Luč Explained

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]

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  2. Web site: Die Stiffoller und der Stiffolder. FEKED. de.
  3. Web site: Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn .