Ernestinovo

Ernestinovo
Ernestinovo Power Station
Interactive map of Ernestinovo
Ernestinovo
Location of Ernestinovo in Croatia
Ernestinovo
Ernestinovo (Croatia)
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Ernestinovo (Europe)
Coordinates: 45°27′N 18°40′E / 45.45°N 18.66°E / 45.45; 18.66
Country Croatia
RegionSlavonia (Podunavlje)
County Osijek-Baranja
Area
32.0 km2 (12.4 sq mi)
 • Urban
10.9 km2 (4.2 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
1,948
 • Density60.9/km2 (158/sq mi)
 • Urban
996
 • Urban density91.4/km2 (237/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (Central European Time)
Websiteernestinovo.hr

Ernestinovo (Hungarian: Ernőháza, German: Ernestinenhof, Serbian Cyrillic: Ернестиново) is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia.

The municipality of Ernestinovo was founded in 1884, before that Ernestinovo was part of the municipality of Čepin.

In the 2011 census, there were a total of 2,189 inhabitants, 78% of them Croats, 19% Hungarians, and 7% Serbs. The municipality consists of the settlements of Divoš (pop. 63), Ernestinovo (pop. 1,047), and Laslovo (pop. 1,079).

Ernestinovo also had some people of German descent, although most of the German inhabitants were expelled in 1944.

North of Ernestinovo lies the major HEP Substation TS Ernestinovo, which was originally built in 1977 as the first 400 kV station in Croatia. It is connected with long-distance power lines to TS Tumbri/Žerjavinec (Zagreb) and Pécs, Hungary. It had been destroyed in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, but was fully repaired in 2003. Bobota Canal passes next to the village.

Ernestinovo is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.