Kőszegfalva
Kőszegfalva (until 1896 Svábfalu , German Schwabendorf ) is a district of Kőszeg ( Güns ) in Hungary . The village is about 5 km behind the Austro-Hungarian border.
history
Schwabendorf was founded in 1712 at the instigation of the city of Güns. The village itself has always been owned by the town of Güns from the start. The aim was to increase the population of the area, decimated by war and plague. For this purpose, Swabians from Kimratshofen were settled in Bavaria . The first settlers arrived in 1713. In 1760 there were already 24 families living in the village. Due to the linguistic differences to the Bavarian-Austrian dialect of the population of the city of Güns and the Hungarian villages in the surrounding area, the village remained linguistically isolated.
Schwabendorf received its own chapel in 1752, which was demolished in 1850 and replaced by the church that still exists today and is dedicated to St. Leonhard .
From the end of the 19th century the population of the village, like that of the city of Güns, was increasingly Magyarized. Both places lost their German-speaking majority around the turn of the century.
In 1896, Schwabendorf was renamed Kőszegfalva ( Günsdorf ) due to the increasing Magyarization policy . In 1938 the place got its own train stop. After the Second World War, around 90 members of the German-speaking minority were expelled.