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Foreword
Genesis
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Parish
Patronat
School
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World War
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The great German colonization begun by the Empress-Queen Maria Theresa in the Banat was continued with great circumspection by her son, Emperor Josef II, following his assumption of power in the year 1780. On orders of Emperor Josef II, 150 new dwelling houses were built by the high exchequer for agricultural colonists here in Neupanat in the year 1786-87 and handed over to the arriving immigrants from Austria, Germany and parts of Lorraine still in the same year. The community received the name Pusta[3] Panath.

The community of Panatulnou therefore came into being in the same manner as the remaining German communities of the Banat. The regions of the country re-conquered from the Turks were place under the imperial government and then it settled Germans here.

In the register books, the name of the local community was called “Neo Panat” from 1792 on. Since 1835, the name “Uj Panat” and “Uj-Panath” functions, which was changed in the year 1911 by the Hungarian Minister of the Interior at that time to “Ujpanad.” Since the Romanian dominion, the community bears the name “Panatulnou.”

The community lies beyond the Maros River,[4] on the highway leading from Arad to Şiria (Vilagos)[5] and lies 8 kilometers[6] away from Arad. The plat has 4,236 imperial yokes[7] and is distributed as 3,205 imperial yokes[8] of plow field, 160 yokes of compensation gardens, 160 yokes[9] of vineyards and 117 yokes[10] of pasture meadow.

Between the former count’s estate and the border of Covăsinţ,[11] the small brook rising near Minis,[12] the so-called wet Wiesengraben[13] (Szàrangér), flows into the plat then moves behind the vineyards, later, farther in the plat and with a swing to the northeast, it takes its direction towards Zimandul-nou (Zimand-Ujfalu).[14]

The community offers a quite beautiful sight from afar. There are, after all, only straight streets here; the principal street which is a highway at the same time and the many side streets with well cared-for footpaths are mostly cultivated with mulberry trees, also to some extent with acacia trees. The count of dwelling houses according to house number is 308.  In this count are included the 48 houses newly-built in the year 1923, which were erected on a piece of land with an area of 12 imperial yokes[15] expropriated from the pasture meadow. Until then, the number of houses was only 260.

The dwelling houses lie close to each other. Indeed, only the large house sites have an expanse of 600 square fathoms,[16] while those of the so-called small farmers only have an area of 400 square fathoms.[17] Most dwellings are roofed with tile; however one can still catch sight of houses roofed with reed in places.

Scarcely is there a yard without any well. The drinking water is very good.

At the principal place of the community—in front of the church, rectory and school—a park was laid out on May 12, 1934, which is surrounded with a durable wire fence. To the right on the main street stands the parish hall, newly-build in the year 1875, opposite it in the park the public elementary school, afterwards the Roman Catholic parish church and then the Roman Catholic rectory.

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