Baja
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Hungary | |||
Region : | Southern Great Plain | |||
County : | Bács-Kiskun | |||
Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Baja | |||
District since 1.1.2013 : | Baja | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 11 ' N , 18 ° 57' E | |||
Height : | 95 m | |||
Area : | 177.61 km² | |||
Residents : | 37,508 (Jan. 1, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 211 inhabitants per km² | |||
Telephone code : | (+36) 79 | |||
Postal code : | 6500 | |||
KSH kódja: | 03522 | |||
Structure and administration (status: 2018) | ||||
Community type : | city | |||
Mayor : | Róbert Fercsák (Fidesz-KDNP) | |||
Postal address : | Szentháromság tér 1 6500 Baja |
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(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) |
Baja [ ˈbɒjɒ ] (German Franconian town ) is a town with 37,000 inhabitants in southern Hungary on the Danube and its tributary Sugovica. The tourism and fishing play a major role in Baja.
location
Baja is located in County Bács-Kiskun , 156 kilometers south of Budapest and north to the borders of Hungary - Croatia - Serbia . Baja is the administrative seat of the district of the same name . The city lies on the northern edge of the Batschka .
history
Baja was mentioned in a document as early as 1318. In 1712 the first German colonists settled here, the Danube Swabians . In 1946, 2304 inhabitants were Germans, i.e. around 15 percent of the total population.
Attractions
The Baja synagogue , built in the 1840s, is now used as the city library.
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built in 1722 and received a baroque high altar in 1765 .
Events
Every year on the second weekend in July there is a folk festival where fish soup is cooked over an open fire in more than 2000 kettles for well over 20,000 people.
sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Isidor Beck (1817–1879), poet
- István Türr (1825–1908), insurgent and politician
- Joseph Perles (1835-1894), rabbi
- Johann von Nostitz-Rieneck (1847–1915), Lieutenant Field Marshal
- Alexander Nehr (1855–1928), fitter and blacksmith
- Juliane Déry (1864–1899), writer
- József Balassa (1864–1945), philologist
- Eduard “Ede” Telcs (1872–1948), sculptor and medalist
- Emmerich Schwemlein (* 1950), politician (SPÖ)
- Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo (* 1956), Japanologist and linguist
- Péter Disztl (* 1960), soccer goalkeeper
- Ferenc Berkes (chess player) (* 1985), chess player
- Renata Koch (* 1985), triathlete
- Ágnes Czingulszki (* 1987), journalist and author
- Gábor Faldum (* 1988), triathlete
- Marcell Pongó (born 1997), basketball player
Town twinning
- Argentan in France
- Biograd na Moru in Croatia , since 2016
- Hódmezővásárhely in Hungary
- Labin in Croatia
- Sângeorgiu de Pădure in Romania
- Sombor in Serbia
- Târgu Mureș in Romania
- Thisted in Denmark
- Waiblingen in Germany