Dudeștii Noi (known as Beșenova Nouă until 1964;[4] German: Neubeschenowa; Hungarian: Újbesenyő; Serbian: Нова Бешенова, romanized: Nova Bešenova) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania.
In order to stop the rainwater ponding favored by the reduced slopes and the clayey soils, which allow the water to stagnate, a system of canals was created that are connected to Bega Veche.
[5] Dudeștii Noi has a temperate continental climate, with hot summers, not too cold winters, early springs and quite long autumns.
[5] Between October and November, in Dudeștii Noi fog and hoar are often recorded; during summer dewy mornings are frequent, and during winter rime, hail or frost are reported.
The grassy vegetation, different types of shrubs, plants specific to swampy areas and trees such as willow, poplar, linden, chestnut or locust are the most widespread species in the commune, but most of its territory has been transformed into agricultural land, natural vegetation characteristic of the area being replaced by crops.
[5] Regarding the fauna, different species of rodents, lizards, quails, pheasants, storks, birds of prey, swallows, martins, sparrows, wild ducks, wild geese, accidentally birds from the ornithological reserve in Dudeștii Noi, different species of fish – perch, dwarf catfish, carp, rudd, bream are common; among the mammals, frequently spotted here are the hare, the fox, the badger and the polecat.
[5] Dacians, Romans, Goths, Huns, Gepids, Awards, Serbs, Slovenes, Mongols and Turks attacked or settled in Banat over the centuries while thrusting aside or annihilating each other in mutual confrontations.
In the Treaty of Passarowitz the Banat of Temeswar was subordinated to the Hofkammer in Vienna as crown land of the Kaiser on 21 July 1718.
The Lorrainian Johann Oßwald, already having lived in Banat 20 years, recruited 60 German-Lorrainian families (290 people) from the areas around Mainz and Trier to settle in Beschenowa.
30,000 soldiers of the Austrian army with 108 cannons, led by Count Julius Jacob von Haynau met at the Nyárád Creek the 55,000 soldiers and 108 cannons strong Hungarian army under the command of the Generals Henryk Dembiński and Józef Bem.
After Romania changed sides and joined the Allies, 19 families fled in September 1944, and all remaining inhabitants were evacuated to the neighboring village of St. Andreas between 29 September–10 October.
During the organized expulsion of Germans from Romania after World War II, 297 men and women were deported for reconstruction works to Ukraine in January and February 1945, of which 68 died in the coal mines as forced laborers.
1951–1956 saw the deportation of 62 families to the Bărăgan Plain to a makeshift shanty town by the name of Bumbăcari,[9] northeast of Bucharest, after the Soviet model of the Gulag.
The goals of the association are to foster relations between original residents and fellow countrymen living abroad, as well as to preserve traditional customs.