A number of vine-growing settlements, Pivnice, appeared in the 19th century in Negotinska Krajina, a traditional vine-growing region by the Danube. They grew on the site of earlier seasonal settlements that emerged spontaneously in periods of intensive work in vineyards. In them every family built its own wine cellar, called pivnice too. The wine cellars were used for processing grapes and storing wine, as well as for living.