Luč

Luč (Hungarian: Lőcs, German: Lutsch, Serbian Cyrillic: Луч) is a settlement in the Petlovac municipality of Osijek-Baranja County in the region of Baranya, Croatia. The population was 322 people in 2011.^[3]

Luč
Village (Selo)
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Coordinates: 45°47′07″N 18°32′08″E
Country	Croatia
Region	Baranya
County	Osijek-Baranja
Municipality	Petlovac
Area [1]
• Total	3.6 sq mi (9.4 km2)
Elevation	300 ft (90 m)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	322
• Density	89/sq mi (34/km2)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	31300 Beli Manastir
Area code	(+385) 31

Until the end of World War II the most inhabitants were German Danube Swabians, also known locally as Stifolder because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).^[4] Most of them were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948 under the Potsdam Agreement.^[5]

Population

Population data graph 1857.-2021.^[6]

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population	1226	1172	1119	1133	1111	1138	1050	1076	1014	947	987	896	726	735	487	435	322
	1857	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2021

Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Ethnic composition, 1991. census

Luč
1991
total: 735 Croats 615 (83.7%) Yugoslavs 54 (7.34%) Serbs 31 (4.21%) Hungarians 9 (1.22%) Slovenes 8 (1.08%) Albanians 4 (0.54%) Ruthenians 3 (0.40%) Germans 2 (0.27%) Montenegrins 2 (0.27%) ethnic Muslims 1 (0.13%) ethnically undeclared 4 (0.54%) unknown 2 (0.27%)

Austria-Hungary 1910. census

Luč
Population by ethnicity	Population by religion
total: 1,138 Šokci 730 (64.1%) Germans 276 (24.2%) Hungarians 107 (9.40%) Slovaks 18 (1.58%) Serbs 6 (0.52%) Croats 1 (0.08%)	total: 1,138 Roman Catholics 1,115 (98.0%) Jewish 13 (1.14%) Eastern Orthodox 6 (0.52%) Calvinists 4 (0.35%)