 The Lorrainian Johann Oßwald, living in the Banat since 20 years already, recruited 60 German-Lorrainian families (290 souls) from the area around Mainz and Trier to settle in Beschenowa.1748, as part of the "Great Swabian Migrations" of the Danube-Swabians, this first group of voluntary Imperial colonists arrived, most of which came on floats called "Ulmer Schachtel" traveling on the river Danube from the German town of Ulm for about two or three weeks.1750 a further group of settlers arrived.