Nova Topola, Gradiška

Nova Topola (Serbian: Нова Топола; German: Windthorst) is a village in the municipality of Gradiška, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The village was founded by 14 German settler families from northwestern Germany in 1879, one year after Bosnia came under Habsburg rule.

Following a visit to the region by Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria a daughter-colony, named Rudolfstal, was established nearby in Bosanski Aleksandrovac.

Following the collapse of internal security during World War II the Nazis decided to evacuate the Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) population from Bosnia and a treaty to this effect was signed with the Ustaše regime on 30 September 1942.

[2] The village was repopulated after 1945 with Serbs and the Communist authorities destroyed or obscured all evidence of German history and heritage here.