Regular designed round village,
the only one of this type in the Banat area. The inner diameter is about 210 m.
On 5th of March, 1779 Johann Caspar Steube writes about the village in his third letter from Temeswar [Steube]:
"I would like to give you a chorograpie about this village, which may be unique in its
kind. In the middle of the village there is a well with good water and with a roof. This well
is surounded by a perfect circle of mulberies. Around this plantation there is a round
treeless square and around this square there is again a round range of mulberies.
Behind these trees the houses are also built in a circle. Each house has got a wide
court with the necessary stables and barns, behind this court there is a garden and
behind the garden there is a vineyard. None of the houses is an inch higher than the
others and all of them have the same distance one from the other."
Griselini wrote in the year 1780: "I liked the layout of Charlottenburg, which forms a
circle round a mulbery plantation, very much". The following plan is taken out of the book
Griselini wrote.
One still can find today 34 old mulberies in the village. Some of them could have
been planted during the settlement.
It has been told that during or after World War one a biplane landed on a field next
to the village. The German pilots attention was attracted by the round form of the village
and he wanted to see who lives in that beautyful place.