Absolute altitudes of the village is 87 meters above the sea level. Pačetin is located two kilometers away from the Vuka River.
History
First information about Pačetin come from the 1275. At the place of present day village during the Middle Ages there were three villages with three churches. Louis I of Hungary permitted weekly trade fairs in Pačetin. In 1498 Pačetin gained town status and the medieval Vukovar County Assembly were held in it. After the Ottoman–Hungarian wars and Ottoman conquest of Hungary Pačetin population decreased. After the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire after the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1666, Pačetin was settled by Serbs mainly from Mačva, eastern Bosnia and Montenegro, and at the beginning of the 18th century, there were over 40 Serbian houses. A century later there were twice as many houses and inhabitants, and at the peak in 1905 there were 1109 inhabitants in Pačetin, of which 1066 were Serbs.
Education
The first records that prove the existence of the school in Pačetin were made on 18 July 1788 which stated that 38 children attended the classes, 19 in the first and second grade, and 76 children at all. This report is today kept in the National Archives of Hungary. Between 1788 until the 1922 there is no records about the school in Pačetin. In 1957 the school was an independent six-year primary school, after that a branch of the elementary school in Nuštar, then branch of the "Braća Đurđević" Elementary School in Vukovar and since 1992 and establishment of SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia until today it became branch school of the Bobota Elementary School. Branch school of Elementary school Bobota is located in Pačetin, 4,4 kilometers away from mother school in Bobota. Education at local school is implemented in Serbian language. The school building have two classrooms, a kitchen, bathroom and central heating on electrical energy. In 2010 local branch of Prosvjeta published monograph 220 godina školstva u Pačetinu.
Population
According to the 1991 census, the village was inhabited by a majority of Serbs, and minority of Yugoslavs and Croats.
Points of Interest
is Serbian Orthodox church famous for its iconostasis from 1910. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. The building of the St. Nicholas Church in Pačetin started in 1752 and the construction works were finished in three years period so that it was blessed in 1755.
Associations and Institutions
Cultural and Artistic Association Branko Radičević is active in village since 1999. Local drama group, children drama group and reciting section are active as a part of Association. They are organizers of MESDI-International Meetings of Drama Amateurs and Saint Sava Oration.
