Babarc

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Babarc
Babarc coat of arms
Babarc (Hungary)
Babarc
Babarc
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Southern Transdanubia
County : Baranya
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Mohács
District since 1.1.2013 : Bóly
Coordinates : 46 ° 0 ′  N , 18 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 1 ″  N , 18 ° 33 ′ 21 ″  E
Area : 18.85  km²
Residents : 728 (Jan. 1, 2011)
Population density : 39 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 69
Postal code : 7757
KSH kódja: 05403
Structure and administration (status: 2018)
Community type : local community
Mayor : Sándor Pécsi (independent)
Postal address : Béke et al. 41
7757 Babarc
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Babarc ( German Bawarz , Croatian Babrac ) is a Hungarian municipality in the Bóly district in Baranya County .

Location and surroundings

Babarc is located in southern Hungary in a valley of the Branau hill country on the small river Borza-patak . Larger places in the area are Bóly and Mohács . Pécs (Fünfkirchen) is the next larger town with a university . The borders to Croatia and Serbia are also only about 30 km away.

history

Ground monuments found near Babarc indicate a late Roman settlement.

Babarc was first mentioned in a document in 1015.

From the 18th to the 20th century, Babarc was mainly of German descent and -speaking because the community was populated by Danube Swabians .

Community partnerships

Attractions

  • Reformed Church, built in 1832
  • Roman Catholic Church Szent István király , built in 1807
  • Statue of St. Florian ( Szent Flórián szobra )
  • Traditional farmhouses ( parasztházak )
  • World War Memorial ( Világháborús emlékmű )
Roman Catholic Church of Szent István király

traffic

The secondary road no. 56113 runs through Babarc, the main road no. 57 one kilometer south of the village. The nearest train station is about 15 kilometers east in Mohács.

literature

  • Monika Ambach, Miklós Füzes, Katharina Wild: Bawaz. History - Customs - Language . German minority self- government, Babarc 1998, 2006, ISBN 963-218-577-3 .
  • Ibolya Hock: German wedding customs in Bawaz / Babarc , in: Contributions to folklore of the Hungarian Germans 10 (1993), pp. 93–130.
  • Rita Vadas: Information on popular belief in Bawaz / Babarc , in: Contributions to Folklore of the Hungarian Germans 27 (2012), pp. 187–214.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Judith Oexle (ed.): From the air - pictures of our history. Aerial archeology in Central Europe, Dresden 1997, p. 142.
  2. ↑ Babarc története. Babarc község, February 16, 2016, accessed March 31, 2018 (Hungarian).

Web links

Commons : Babarc  - collection of images, videos and audio files