Vaskút

Vaskút [ vɒʃku ː t ung iron fountain ] ( German Waschkut, older even iron Brunn, Croatian Baškut and Vaskút ) is a municipality in südungarische small area in Baja Bács -Kiskun. It is located around 10 km south-east of Baja on the road to Gara, near the southern border of Hungary.

In 2002, it had 3654 inhabitants, with a large proportion of ethnic German inhabitants.

History

The area has been inhabited since the Stone Age. In Vaskút remains of a hill fort of Jazyges found that dominated the area between the Danube and Tisza. However, the finds of Roman brick and a coin from the time of Diocletian also point to a brisk trade with the Roman Pannonia west of the Danube. In the time of the migration, the area of Backa finally was initially under the rule of the Huns, the Gepids, Avars from 567. End of the 9th century finally settled here, the Hungarians, with their Christianization, the area was placed under the Archbishopric of Kalocsa. After the defeat of the Hungarians against the Turks in 1526 in the near Mohács the rule of the Ottomans began.

The community Vaskút itself originated in the early 18th century as planned scale checkerboard settlement, as is typical for southern Hungary. The place is dominated largely agricultural until today. In addition to the wine in particular the production of hemp is the focus. First, there were mainly German and Serbs, the proportion of Serbs, however, gradually declined. 1820 2.925 inhabitants were counted in the place, of which 2,902 were German, who spoke their own dialect. After the Second World War, numerous Hungarian Székely people from Bukovina were settled here.

Attractions

Most important sight in the village is the Church of the Trinity.

Partner communities

Partner municipalities since Pentecost 1992 Mutlangen and since 6 June, 1992 by Türk home. In Vaskút is a school which was recently expanded with financial help from Mutlangen.

Personalities

From Vaskút the writer Stefan Schoblocher dates (* 1937).

• Peštalić Gregory (1755-1809), Croatian writers
• Fabijan Peštalić (1845-1909), Franciscan ( OFM), supporters of the Croatian rebirth movement