Kislőd

Kislőd ( German Kischludt ) is a municipality in Hungary in the small area Ajka Veszprém County.

History

He was first mentioned in 1378 and was after the Turkish liberation initially uninhabited. Around the year 1723 German colonists were settled from the Mainz area. From 1747 there was a strong Zusiedlung German colonists from the Rhine area and around Aschaffenburg ( Wiesthal, Roth book ). Already in 1751 there was a first blast furnace for pig iron production from bauxite (some of the houses built are still standing and is still inhabited ). The village belonged to the parish Varoslöd to 1752. 1780 a Roman Catholic parish church was built.

The citizens of the 1930 Census showed 1541 inhabitants ( 1518 Roman Catholic, Reformed 5, 6 Protestant, 12 Jewish ). On July 2, 1868, was a well -off event in the Hungarian Space: collective Magyarization all German family name. ( Approval of the Ministry of Interior No. 13659 )

World War II

On March 10, 1945, the Russians marched into Kislőd. One-third of the village population was expelled on January 6, 1948 about. On 8 January 1948, the exiles were brought in cattle cars in the Soviet occupation zone, where they arrived in Pirna on 10 January 1948. Approx. a week later, the displaced were distributed in the regions around Zwickau, Aue and Auerbach.

Demographics

• Year Population
• 1757 672
• 1830 1.355
• 1880 1.641 ( between 1880 / 6.1 % and 92.5 % German population )
• 1890 1.746 ( 1890 declining population due to emigration mostly to Canada and the USA)
• 1900 1.711
• 1930 1.541 ( 1321 German, 219 Hungary, Slovak 1 )
• 1941 1.652
• 1949 1.747
• 1960 1.465