Bački Breg

Settlement

The House the Queens Passed By; A Song for the Priest, the Widow and the Bachelor

2 Legends

About the place

Bački Breg anchors two separate narratives in this research: The House the Queens Passed By; A Song for the Priest, the Widow and the Bachelor. The point marks the settlement, not an invented exact scene.

Legends from this place

The House the Queens Passed By1900 — 2000In Bereg, it was considered a bad sign if the Kraljice procession did not enter a household’s yard.No source citedRead the legend →
A Song for the Priest, the Widow and the Bachelor1900 — 2000The Kraljice did not sing the same verse to everyone; the song changed with the household’s situation.No source citedRead the legend →

History

Historical and alternative names used in searches: Bereg; Béreg. Serbian, Hungarian, German, Croatian and Russian queries were compared, keeping documents, oral traditions and modern retellings separate.

The place today

Today Bački Breg serves as an honest geographic anchor when a source gives no street, house or microtoponym.

Visitor information

Use public roads and spaces. A settlement-centre marker is not permission to enter private property, unsafe ruins or closed religious buildings.