Traces
01.01.1840.
Originates the drawing of the main street in Sombor, done by an engineer, Gergurov, on which there are, from the Serbian Reading-Room to the barber's shop, four one floor buildings and nine ground floor buildings, the owners of which were in this order: Žindelj, Veselinović, Riđički, Popić (thatch house), Ilić (thatch house), Menaser, Ambrozović, followed by an empty lot, and then Slavi, Buzadžić, Atanacković, Mrazović (thatch house) and Horvat, which was later purchased by a barber Andraš Kumerkramer, and since then there have been barber's shops in there. On the other side, from Županija (the Prefecture building) there is only one one floor building, while all the others are ground floor buildings which belonged to: Kontić, Pinceheljij, Lugomerski (thatch house), Brkić, Zurković, Ambrozović, Radosavljević and Margetić...
08.07.1848.
In Sombor 400 Serbs, who the Hungarian uprising command decided to take to Vrbas, were disarmed and arrested. However, because of the intervention of bishop Pavle-Platon Atanacković, they were released. All that was because the Serbs from Sombor, as it was said in the bill of indictment, supported the decisions of the May Assembly, held on the 13 May of the same year in Sremski Karlovci, where they expressed their loyalty to Austria, and asked for the autonomy, and for Srem, Banat, Bačka and Baranja as a national territory.
08.07.1786.
The Austrian “Roman Emperor” Joseph II, on his passing through to Seged, spent a night in Sombor. After attending a service the next day, the emperor, via Čonoplja, continued his journey. He left the written order in which he dismissed the Franciscan cloister, one part of which was to be given to the parish administration of the Bačka parish, and the other part to the parish clergy as a parochial home. The Church of the Holy Trinity itself, was declared parochial.
09.07.1687.
Dominik Dujo Marković and Jure Vidaković, visited Austrian prince Maximilian Emanuel in his war apartment in Siklos and asked him to give a recommendation to the Viennese War Council to allow the settling of 5.000 Bunjevacs in the region of former Baja triangle; Sombor, Subotica and Baja. The recommendation was given, which helped them a lot for getting a positive decision of the War Council.
10.07.1788.
In Sombor PAVLE-PLATON ATANACKOVIĆ was born, who, after graduating from the Theological School in Sremski Karlovci, worked as a teacher in Sombor, and since 1812 all four years taught several subjects in the Teacher-Training School in Sent Endre. Coming back to Sombor, after the death of his wife in 1829, he entered a monastic order in Krušedol, and took a name Platon. As a prior of Šišatovac monastery, in 1834 he was elected a bishop of Buda, and later an archimandrite of Bezdin, and in the time of 1848/49 Revolution, he governed the whole Serbian Church, as a bishop of Bačka. During all that time he was a very prolific writer. It was his merit that the books in the national language were brought to Serbian schools, to which great credit could be given to his “Platon’s First Book”. He was a great collaborator and friend of Vuk Karadzic, and since 1842 a chairman of the Matica Srpska, and in everything a great national benefactor. He died in Novi Sad on 21 April 1867.
11.07.1780.
The foundations of the Chapel of the Snowy Lady Mary in Stapar, the homesteads near Sombor, were set. Since the time it had been being built, people have called this chapel Jozo’s Chapel, after senator and Chief Justice of Sombor, Josip Marković, who gave funds for building it. Ever since then, on the first Sunday of August many people gather around the chapel to attend the services, which are followed by fun and joy around the chapel.
