Old maps show the valley before Novi Rakovac existed: the village by the monastery in the hills, a railway along the Danube, and the neighbouring places under the German and Hungarian names the mapmakers used.
The most detailed of the old Austro-Hungarian maps. The sheet “Ilok und Ruma” (Zone 25, Column XXI) of the Special Map of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy covers the western half of Fruška Gora; Rakovac lies in its north-eastern corner, where the viewer opens.
Sheet “Ilok und Ruma” of the Special Map of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1:75,000, edition of 1915. Public domain; scan by the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, via GeoPortOst. Full sheet and source The map opens centred on Rakovac. Scroll or drag to move around it.
What you can find around Rakovac on this sheet:
Rakovac with the sign for a monastery (“Kls.”): the old village by the monastery, today’s Stari Rakovac, with Planina, Kesten and the Gradac peak (471 m) above it.
“H.St. Rakovac”, a railway halt on the line along the Danube.
Beočin with its cement factory (“Cement Fb.”) and Beočin station, Dumbovo to the west, Ledinci to the east.
The place name Salaksia between the village and the Danube, today the name of a winery below the monastery.
Across the river: Ófutak and Újfutak (Old and New Futog), and Újvidék, the Hungarian name of Novi Sad.
General map of Central Europe, about 1910
The General Map of Central Europe at a scale of 1:200,000 was drawn by the Military Geographical Institute in Vienna from the Third Military Survey of Austria-Hungary. Each sheet covers one degree by one degree and is named after its largest town. Rakovac lies close to the eastern edge of the sheet named after Mitrovica (“Mistrowitz”).
Sheet 37°45° “Mistrowitz” of the General Map of Central Europe, about 1910. Public domain; scan published by the Department of Cartography of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (László Zentai). Full sheet and source The map opens centred on Rakovac. Scroll or drag to move around it.
What you can find around Rakovac on this sheet:
Rakovac in the hills below the Gradac peak (471 m): the old village by the monastery, today’s Stari Rakovac.
A railway station called Rakovac on the line along the Danube.
Beočin village and Beočin Monastery to the west, Ledinci to the east.
Across the Danube, Futog appears twice, as “O-Futtak” and “Uj-Futtak” (Old and New Futog), and an arrow points “zu Neusatz”, towards Novi Sad.
Novi Rakovac is not there yet. It was built after the Second World War, when the old village was not rebuilt.
Maps from private collections
A map from a private collection in Rakovac will be added here soon, together with its story.
Editor's note: Kosta: scan the home map (300–600 dpi, whole sheet plus a close-up of Rakovac) and note its title, cartographer, year, scale and the ZVAB listing where it was found. Still to check: the First Military Survey of the 1780s on Arcanum Maps (subscription), the Second Military Survey, the general map 1:300,000 of 1877 (Rakovac is marked on it; a good public-domain scan is still missing) and cadastral maps (ask the Archive of Vojvodina).
Do you have an old map, plan or postcard showing Rakovac? Please get in touch: it can be shown here with your name.
Seven thousand years in one place: a Neolithic village, a Roman villa, a medieval Benedictine abbey that became a fortress, and today an excavation site on the edge of Rakovac.
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