Mohács

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Mohács
Mohács coat of arms
Mohács (Hungary)
Mohács
Mohács
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Southern Transdanubia
County : Baranya
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Mohács
District since 1.1.2013 : Mohács
Coordinates : 46 ° 0 ′  N , 18 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 45 "  N , 18 ° 40 ′ 50"  E
Height : 82  m
Area : 112.23  km²
Residents : 18,884 (Jan 1, 2011)
Population density : 168 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 69
Postal code : 7700
KSH kódja: 23959
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Community type : city
Mayor : Ferenc Csorbai ( MSZP )
Postal address : Széchenyi tér 1
7700 Mohács
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )
Aerial view over Mohács
Typical disguise for carnival
Trilingual place-name sign

Mohács [ ˈmohaːʧ ] (German: Mohatsch , Serbian: Mohač , Croatian: Mohač ) is a Hungarian city ​​on the right bank of the Danube , near the border with Croatia and Serbia .

Mohács is known nationwide for the local carnival ( Busójárás ). The six-day carnival festival is considered the largest in Hungary and attracts tens of thousands of onlookers every year. Special emphasis is placed on the mummery with intricately carved wooden masks. The Hungarian Germans are an important sponsor of the event . The city is a border inspection point for ships (traveling downhill, traveling uphill to Hungary).

history

Mohács became historically famous through two battles:

  1. Battle of Mohács (1526) - The Ottomans defeat the Hungarians.
  2. Battle of Mohács (1687) - Austria defeats the Ottoman Empire .

In 1941 there were over 700 Jews in Mohács, around 4 percent of the population. After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, the Hungarian administration set up two ghettos in May 1944, into which Jews from the city and the surrounding area were forced. At the beginning of July, the ghetto inmates were deported to Pécs and from there to the Auschwitz concentration camp .

In 1949 the Soviet occupiers planned to build a large steelworks in Mohács and the first work began. In autumn it was decided to build the plant near Dunaújváros . Construction was stopped and the workers in Mohács were asked to go there.

population

In addition to the Hungarian majority (according to the 2001 census), members of the Hungarian Germans, Croats , Roma and Serbs live in Mohács . The following development in the number of inhabitants has taken place over the past few decades:

Number of inhabitants
year 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010
Residents 20,326 20,063 19,453 19,033 18,993

Cityscape

In the harbor promenade there is a three-legged monument riveted from stainless steel strips with a quadruple cube inscribed at the top. At the market square, where the harbor promenade joins the main street Jókai mór utca, the city had a Trinity column made of sandstone and bronze erected in the 1970s .

Most of the residential buildings in the center have been well restored and date from the 20th century. Single-storey residential buildings dominate the suburbs. The place has a total of eight places of worship: Votive Church (Roman Catholic), the inner-city parish church (Roman Catholic), the Franciscan Church (Roman Catholic), a Bishop's Church (Roman Catholic), a Reformed Church, an Evangelical Church, a Serbian Orthodox Church and the Chapel of St. Rochus .

Town twinning

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Daughters and sons of the city

literature

  • Mohács , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 496

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magyarország helységnévtára: Mohács. Központi Statisztikai Hivatal, accessed on November 14, 2019 (Hungarian).
  2. ↑ Brief information on the Buschos Festival on spiegel.de
  3. ↑ Mohacs: Brny. International Jewish Cemetery Project
  4. ↑ Anne Applebaum : The iron curtain . Siedler, Munich 2012, p. 415
  5. ↑ Sights and development: Evaluation of a "trip" on Google earth through the place as well as explanations by a local tour guide on a Danube cruise in July 2013.