Ernestinovo

Ernestinovo
Municipality

Ernestinovo Power Station
Ernestinovo
Ernestinovo

Location of Ernestinovo in Croatia

Coordinates: 45°27′N 18°40′E / 45.45°N 18.66°E / 45.45; 18.66Coordinates: 45°27′N 18°40′E / 45.45°N 18.66°E / 45.45; 18.66
Country  Croatia
County Osijek-Baranja
Population (2001)
 • Total 2,225
Time zone Central European Time (UTC+1)

Ernestinovo (German: Ernestinenhof) is a municipality in Osijek-Baranja county, Croatia. There are 2,225 inhabitants, 67% who are Croats, 22% who are Hungarians, and 8% who are Serbs.[1]

The municipality of Ernestinovo also includes adjacent villages of Divoš and Laslovo.

Ernestinovo also has some people of German descent, although most of the German inhabitants were expelled in 1944.[2]

North of Ernestinovo lies the major HEP Substation TS Ernestinovo, which was originally built in 1977 as the first 400 kV station in Croatia. It is connected with long-distance power lines to TS Tumbri/Žerjavinec (Zagreb) and Pécs, Hungary. It had been damaged in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, but was fully repaired in 2004.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 2001 census, State Statistics Office of the Republic of Croatia
  2. ↑ http://www.opcina-ernestinovo.com/o-nama.html
  3. ↑ "HEP history" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2010-04-03.
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