Dunabogdány

Dunabogdány is a Hungarian town in Pest county. It belongs to the small area of ​​Szentendre.

History

According to archaeological excavations, the municipality has already been inhabited in the Bronze Age. In the environment of the fort Dunabogdány ( Castellum Cipri in ancient times ), several different Roman troops and genres were stationed over the centuries.

The first mention, as Bogud stems from 1285, in the 14th century, the village was mentioned as Bogdanryw. After the Turkish rule was Dunabogdány possession of the Zichy family, in 1767 gave this village in the Kronbesitz from. At the beginning of the 18th century it came to the immigration of Germans, in 1724 about 300 Catholic Swabians settled in the area in 1767 were more newcomers in Dunabodány to. The 1781 Edict of Tolerance issued by Joseph II made ​​for intra- confessional balance between the Catholic majority and the Reformed. As a result, an independent evangelical church was built.

1812 already lived almost 2000 inhabitants in the municipality, which had more than once, also in 1838, affected by flood and fire disasters. Mid 19th century, was opened on the Csódi in the local Andesitvorkommen a first quarry, quarrying and stone processing had become the main source of income. The traditional craft forms from just facades and architectural elements. In the quarries, among other paving stones and hydraulic fracture stones were mined for regulation of the Danube, on a smaller scale table tops, grave and border stones and stairs were made.

Self-image and role of the Danube Swabians

Györgyi Bindorffer made ​​the community the subject of an investigation into the specific historical consciousness of the Swabian minority in Hungary, according to him, first a double structure in which both the Swabian and the Hungarian identity had space. This came during the Second World War due to the ethnic German ideology of Pan-Germanism, the national union movement and its consequences to failure. The organization of pronationalsozialistisch aligned People's League of Germans in Hungary began with the agreement signed in Vienna in 1940 to protect the German minority. The union but not stretched out on the whole Ungarndeutschtum, they captured only part that is no longer counted in the order in which the Magyars.

In Hungary, the resistance of the German minority against the expulsion was stronger than in other Eastern European countries, there has also been helping displaced by the Magyars. The expulsion of 1945-1947 recorded in Dunabogdány almost 900 people, as well as every Swabian family was affected, partly made ​​expulsions with a warning time of only two hours. Due to the chaotic organization, contradictory and changing criteria of state power for removals and delays in the reception of displaced persons in the American zone of occupation it did not come to a complete eviction. In addition, wealthier settlers bought even over bribery and could stay that way.

The year 1946 was also marked by excesses of Hungary to the surviving Jews, veritable pogroms took place in Dunabogdány next to any location Kunmadaras and Miskolc.

The remaining Danube Swabians were forced to contract and release considerable amounts and property to displaced from Slovakia Hungary. The common destiny, a real hatred against the settlers referred the Slovakian Hungarians reinforced the ethnic identity of who remained, the local community was long divided, abbildete also in the parishes and up to the 50's influence was still felt very violent. The resistance against the land reform as the internal political tensions reduced the cleavage. Despite a reduction of the German speakers, the ethnic ( self- ) assignment is still of concern.

Presence

Dunabogdány has a rich music and club life. Venues include the two churches, a secular community center, a soccer field, the nearby banks of the Danube, the kindergarten and the elementary school and music school. In addition to the inherited tradition of brass bands, a string orchestra, pop bands and a church choir are active. The place is since 1990 partner community of people Württemberg Bach, which had itself received many former residents of the village in Banat Rudolfsgnad after the expulsion and flight.