Baja

	Baja
	Baja
	Baja
Basic data
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 Coordinates: 46 ° 10 '39 " N , 18 ° 57' 6" 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
Website :	www.baja.hu
	(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.