3. It seems on the Szigetbecse welcome table, that our community
is living by German nationality.
Our municipality has got 1400 inhabitants, approx. the 30% are
German Nationality. But when and how where these Germans
coming here?
More than thousand years are Germans living in the Carpathian
basin.
After the dislodgement of Turks in the beginning of the 1700s
Hungary under crowded and needed recruital. That is why the
National Assembly ordered the organised colonization.
In the 18th century the Germans have been colonysated to
Hungary in three stages.
The majority of Germans came to Hungary from middle and south
part of Germany. The settlers arrived to Szigetbecse from
Bavarian and Styrian provinces.
16. Till the II. World War lived almost only German origin
in the village
17. The II. World War brought a big change in the life of the village. On
the 28th December 1944 collected 120 youth and got a 5 years
penal to the Soviet Union. There they lived in inhumane conditions
and worked in the mine. 39 peoples died as a result of hunger and
life-threatening work.
18. The punishment
of the II. World
War was the
evacuation.
400 people were
deployed out of
Szigetbecse.
19. They had to leave
their houses and lands
here.
Instead Hungarians
resettled from
Slovakia.
Hungarians and
Germans lived and live
peacefully together.
They got a lot of
mixed marriage.
20. Swabian family fhoto
/ Here is the family together. /
After the II. World
War the family was
broken in three parts.
22. After the II. World War it was forbidden to
speak to German, so the childhood don't
speak the local former.
In 2002 was founded the German Ethnical
Municipality, which aims are to preserving our
heritage and assist the German education in
the kindergarten and in the school.
37. The festival begins with the hymn, than the runners dance to wind-
band music. They're clothes shows Hungarian colors, and they are
wearing more than 100 years old Swabian headkerchiefs.
48. Made by: Mária Lerner
president of the German Ethnical
Municipality in Szigetbecse
With the help of Monika Cserna-
Kurucz and students from the
7th and 8th grades.