Baracs

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Baracs
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Baracs (Hungary)
Baracs
Baracs
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Central Transdanubia
County : Fejér
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Dunaújváros
Coordinates : 46 ° 55 '  N , 18 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '38 "  N , 18 ° 51' 59"  E
Height : 146  m
Area : 55.18  km²
Residents : 3,527 (Jan 1, 2011)
Population density : 64 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 25
Postal code : 2426
KSH kódja: 07047
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Community type : local community
Mayor : Robert Várai (independent)
Postal address : Táncsics utca 27
2427 Baracs
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Baracs is a municipality in Fejér County, Hungary . It is located around five kilometers southwest of the city of Dunaújváros and can be reached from there via highway 6.

history

Prehistory and early history

The Limes road Aquincum - Vetus Salina (Vetusallo) - Annamatia (far right) in the upper part of the picture of the Tabula Peutingeriana .

The area was already settled in prehistoric times, as shown by graves from the Late Bronze Age urn field culture in the area of ​​the later Roman garrison site. But there were also clear traces of the Vatya culture , to which Baracs-Földvár belongs as a fortified Tell settlement . Such settlements are typical of the Early and Middle Bronze Age along the Danube. The Bronze Age settlement with the surrounding wall of Baracs was recorded in 1960 and 1962 by the archaeologist István Bóna (1930-2001). The cultural layers examined at that time had a thickness of up to five meters. In addition to buildings of the Vatya culture, houses of the early Bronze Age Nagyrév culture came to light.

However, Baracs became known primarily for its Roman past. The first place to be mentioned is the Annamatia fort , which secured the Pannonian Danube Limes. The ancient name became known through a copy of a late ancient road map, the Tabula Peutingeriana . The fort can already be found in sketch form on a map by the Italian officer and scholar Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658–1730) from 1726. A little later, its floor plan was depicted in a more realistic form on Michael Karpe's detailed map from 1775.

Middle Ages and Modern Times

The neo-Gothic influenced Catholic St. Mary's Church in Baracs

The current name of the place is first found in 1276 as Boroch. There is still a burial ground from the Árpáden period . Enclosed were the foundations of a medieval church. Today's Catholic church in neo-Gothic style was built in its place in 1850 . Medieval Boroch was completely destroyed in the 16th century by the invading armies of the Turks and was not repopulated until the 18th century. At that time the fort and its buildings were systematically exploited as a quarry for the new buildings.

Twin cities

Baracs is partnered with several municipalities:

Web links

Commons : Baracs  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Baracs ; Website of the municipality of Baracs, Hungarian; Retrieved May 18, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.baracs.hu - Mayor's Office ( Memento of May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2014
  2. ↑ Baracs - Results of local elections ( Hungarian ) National Election Office. October 3, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  3. ^ Péter Kovács: A new gate-tower type in Pannonia Inferior. The northern gate of Annamatia. In: Acta archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, No. 57, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2006, p. 238.
  4. ↑ Magdolna Vicze: The burials of the Vatya culture. The most important settlements of the Tell cultures: Baracs-Földvár. In: Walter Meier-Arendt (Hrsg.): Bronze Age in Hungary. Research in Tell settlements on the Danube and Tisza. Exhibition catalog, Museum for Pre- and Early History, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3882703237 , pp. 146–148; here: p. 146.
  5. ↑ István Bóna: The Middle Bronze Age of Hungary and its Southeastern Relations . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1975, p. 77.
  6. ^ Péter Kovács: Annamatia (Baracs) a roman auxiliary fort in Pannonia. In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, No. 41, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2001, p. 59.
  7. ↑ József Attila: Acta Historica 44-48, 1977, p. 9.
  8. ^ Péter Kovács: Annamatia (Baracs) a roman auxiliary fort in Pannonia . In: Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , 41, 1-2, 2001, pp. 55-80; here: p. 59.
  9. ↑ www.baracs.hu - partner communities ( Memento of May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2014