The
Swabian Turkey is the largest
German-speaking enclave in what is
now Hungary. After the
Ottoman Empire
was defeated
in the Battle of
Mohács in
1687, the Habsburg
Monarchy forced
the Ottoman Turks
from most of the
Kingdom of Hungary. Because
much of the
Pannonian Plain had
been depopulated
through warfare,
the Austrian
Habsburgs began to
resettle the land
with various
colonists, including Croats,
Slovaks, Serbs
and Germans.
Swabian Turkey [Schwäbische
Türkei]
Tolna County
 The Settlement of Tolna County by the Swabians
The Settlement of Gyönk
After the Turkish
Occupation (Tolna)
The Town Crier in Gyönk
Györköny: A Short History
Conflict in Györköny (Tolna)
Závod in the
Tolna
Local history and Geography of Závod in Tolna
Bikács, in Tolna County: A Short History
Bátaszék in the Tolna: A History
Závod in the
Tolna
- A summary and partial translation of sections of the Heimatbuch: Závod in der
Tolna by Anton
Mayer.
Translated by
Henry Fischer,
2008.
Hogyész (Tolna) in the 18th and 19th Century by Josef Hoben
Josef Hoben Index
The Settlement of Swabian Turkey
The Early Colonization of Swabian Turkey - In the "Travel Regulations" the following stipulation was made: "the previously mentioned Swabians along with their wives and children...are not allowed to step on dry land on their entire journey or try to remain somewhere after passing by the Royal residential city of Vienna but travel on directly to Hungary.
The Settlement Policies at the Time of the Great Swabian Migration - At this point in time, the first and earliest phase of the Danube Swabian colonization effort was overwhelmingly focussed on the private estates and domains of the nobles in Hungary and had a rather random and sporadic character.
Claudius Florimundus Count Mercy & the Hogyész Domains By Josef Hoben (18-1900's)
Where Did the Settlers in Hogyész Come From? by Josef Hoben
A Portrait of the Settlement of the Hogyész Domain - The documents associated with the Domains and Estates identifies some special designations like "old homestead", "old village", "older village site", "old meadows," and "old gardens."
The Farm Homestead and Agricultural Pursuits - At the time of settlement each family received a "Einschreibbüchel" (a regulation booklet) that guaranteed the possessor a house lot, garden and yard as well as a stated amount of land that would be apportioned to him.
The Structure of the Village - The social structure of a village is not only determined by the social classes represented in its inhabitants but also through familial ties and neighbourly connections.
The Development of the Hӧgyész Domain in the 18th and 19th Centuries
A Brief Church History in Hӧgyész
Local history and Geography of Závod in Tolna found
at the Mutsching/Musci Village site. Excerpts from “Heimatbuch Závod in der Tolnau” by Anton Mayer.
The Republic of Mucsi
(1946-1948)
Eve Eckert Koehler,
Historian, Author & Daughter of the Danube
Eve E. Koehler was born in
Pári,
Tolna County, Hungary, emigrating to Canada with her parents in 1927, presently residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Author of a
monograph about the Danube Swabian whereby,
The Danube Swabian Alliance of the U.S.A. and Canada chose it as a Bicentennial Project and it was published under their auspices. It is a valuable contribution to the field of literature on ethnicity, the first narrative-history of the Danube Swabians in the English language. Her son, John A. Koehler, created a
wonderful map of the German Settlement Areas in Historical Hungary, & how the territory was split up after the Treaty of Peace Between The Allied & Associated Powers & Hungary.
Baranya County
The Inhabitants of Gyönk Settle in Mekenyes
1735
Mágocs a Market Town in Baranya
County
by 1730 there were additional German families who had settled in Mágocs
Gerényes in Baranya County 1944-1950
-
By Anonymous,
presented by Henry Fischer - Experiences of
a teen age girl from the village of Gerenyes in Baranya County in Swabian
Turkey, who desires to remain anonymous. Her story is very much like those
from the Batshcka & the Banat but with a different twist because it
occurred in Hungary.
(17 Mar 2009)
Atrocities, Fall of 1944 . . . The vast
majority of the
German
population of Baranya were
taken to the
camp at
Belmonoschtor (Beli
Manastir).
Repopulating Hungary with Germans (Focus on the manorial estate of Bóly of Baranya County in Schwäbische Turkei) A review of Karl-Peter Krauss' Deutsche Auswanderer in Ungarn: Ansiedlung in der
Herrschaft Bóly im 18. Jahrhundert
Somogy County
The Nordschomodei in Swabian Turkey The term, Nordschomodei,
refers to a government district covering the northeast portion of Somogy County. This area was also known by other designations during the 18th and 19th Centuries: Schümeger Komitat or Gespanschaft that
are based on the medieval Latin Comitatus Simig(h)iensis.
Heimatbuch der Nordschomodei:
Nordschomodei, Heimatbuch und Geschichte einer deutschen Sprachinsel der Schwäbischen Türkei in Ungarn, [homeland book and history of a German-speaking island in Swabian Turkey
in Hungary] edited by Anton Tafferner, 1973, München. Provides information on the villages in Somogy County.
Gadács and Szil:
The Two Sisters
- The
history of two
of the Danube
Swabian villages
in Somogy County
leading up to
the expulsion in
1948 that
attempts to
provide the
historical
context and
consequences of
the Potsdam
Declaration as
it applied to
the Danube
Swabians of
Hungary after
the Second World
War and the
expulsion of
their
populations as
an example of
what happened
all over Hungary
at that time. -
Henry Fischer,
14 Jun 2008
Emigration From
Somogy County To
Slavonia and the
United States.
A
sociological
take on the
disproportionate
numbers of
Swabians who
left Somogy at
the end of the
19th and
beginning of the
20th centuries
and actually
provides
information on
individuals and
villages from
that area
(including my
own
grandfather). -
Henry Fischer,
15 May 2008
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