The HOG (Heimatortsgemeinschaft)
Bakowa was founded in 1978 and is part of the "Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben" (Organisation of Svabians from Banat).
It is a loose community of all people from Bakowa
living outside the village.
The aim of the community is to keep alive the relations between the
fellow-countrymen living in Germany, to preserve the contacts with those still
living in Bakowa and to maintain customs and
traditions.
On June 1 st 1999 1308 people from Bakowa lived in Germany, Austria and Luxemburg.
First chairman of the HOG Bakowa is Ernst Bayerle.
Contact address: ernst.bayerle@t-online.de
Every second year the HOG organizes a meeting ("Bakowaer Treffen") at the
municipal hall in Sinsheim with some hundred
participants on average where you can always meet guests from Bakowa.
Richard Topitsch has made video documentaries about
the last meetings of the Bakowa village community,
which took place in Sinsheim. The last meeting was in
2015. It is worth seeing - if you want to know any details about it, contact
him under R.Topitsch@gmx.de