Area 86 km² Local time Sunday 3:19 PM | Population 2,225 (2001) | |
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Weather 7°C, Wind NW at 14 km/h, 63% Humidity | ||
Ernestinovo (German: Ernestinenhof) is a municipality in Osijek-Baranja county, Croatia. There are 2,225 inhabitants, 67% who are Croats, 22% who are Hungarians, and 8% who are Serbs.
Map of Ernestinovo, Croatia
The municipality of Ernestinovo also includes adjacent villages of Divoš and Laslovo.
Ernestinovo also has 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 damaged in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, but was fully repaired in 2004. Bobota Canal passes next to the village.