After Tofü and Mekényes this is the third oldest German Lutheran settlement on the Dombovár Domain of the Esterhazys. The arrival and settlement of these German colonists took place in 1756. Most of them came from the Hessian villages of Tolna County but there had been other Germans before them. Johann Haass is…
Category: Baranya County
Mekenyes in the Baranya
The German peasant settlers who immigrated to Hungary in the 18th century were often did so without documentation or papers with them for various reasons. One of the causes for their emigration from their homeland was the ongoing persecution of the Lutherans by their Roman Catholic landlords and princes. The customs officials at…
The Earliest German Settlements in Swabian Turkey
The following are the earliest German settlements in the Counties of Tolna, Baranya and Somogy an area collectively known as Swabian Turkey. Tolna County: Alsonana 1750 Baatapati 1730 Bikacs 1736 Bonyhad 1722 Felso Nana 1723 Gyonk 1722 Gyorkony 1722 Izmeny 1722 Kalazno 1721 Keszohidegkut 1723 Kety 1732 Kismanyok 1720 Kistormas 1724 Majos 1720 Moragy …
Book Resources for Swabian Turkey
Bátaszék, Heimatbuch der Grossgemeinde Bátaszék im Komitat Tolnau (Ungarn) by Johannes Göbelt, Pécs (Two volumes) Bikács, Unsere Heimat 1736-1986 by Mathias Schmausser, 1986, Ostelsheim. Bonyhádvarasd/Warasch, Heimatbuch by Andreas M. Patton, 1995 Budapest. Branau/Baranya, Unvergessene Heimat by Mathias Volk, 1985, Karlsruhe. Cikó, Ein Heimatbuch über die Ortsgeschichte unsere Dorfes in Ungarn, by Andreas Reder published…
Hessian Emigrants to Hungary
(From the book by Stefan Stader: Auswanderer im 18. Jh. Nach Südosteuropa.) Bitz Michael from St. Leon; 1748 to HungaryFischer Josef from Deidesheim; 1723 to HungaryFischer Jacob from Bous; 1724 to HungaryFischer Johann from Wustweiler, 1750 to Pest, Hungary (From the book by Anton Reimann: Auswanderungen aus Hessischen Territorien nach Südosteuropa) Bitz Peter, farmer from Altenmittlau/District…
Helpful Hints in Researching in Baranya County
The German settlers in Baranya who were of a Lutheran or Reformed background tended to settle in the northern tier of the County clustered along the border with Tolna County from where the vast majority of them had first settled on arriving from Hesse. In most cases they were first or second generation descendants…
Tofü
This article is based on “Tofü: The First German Settlement On the Eszterházy Domains” from: “Franken und Schwaben in Ungarn” by Heinrich Kéri and translated by Odis. A. Schlösser. The circumstances around the settlement of the small village of Tofü in Baranya County by settlers from Germany and the time when it took…
The Late Settlement and Colonization of Upper Baranya
(From the book: Franken und Schwaben by Heinrich Kéri, translated by Odis A. Schlösser.) Baranya County is situated east of the Danube, south of the Drava River and bordered in the west and north by the Counties of Somogy and Tolna and the upper tier of the County is officially called Hegyhári járás: the mountainous…
The Inhabitants of Gyönk Settle in Mekenyes 1735
Mekenyes was an uninhabited wasteland after the explusion of the Turks and was designated as such in the Conscription Lists in the 1730s as part of the Eszterhazy Ozora Domains. But there is evidence that it was inhabited by a population of wandering Serbs and Croats. Among the many Serbian names in the County,…
The History of Early Lutheranism in Swabian Turkey
This article deals with the early history and development of the Lutheran congregations and Church District of Swabian Turkey in the 18th century taken from: Beiträge zur Geschichte Des evangelischen Seniorats in der Schwäbischen Türkei by Gustav Schmidt-Tomka, published in München 1976, summarized and translated by Henry A. Fischer. (The Seniorat (Church District) of Tolna,…