Szulok

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Szulok
Szulok coat of arms Map of Hungary, position of Szulok highlighted
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Southern Transdanubia
County : Somogy
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Barcs
Coordinates : 46 ° 3 '  N , 17 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 3 '12 "  N , 17 ° 33' 4"  E
Area : 27.91  km²
Residents : 599 (Jan. 1, 2011)
Population density : 21 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 82
Postal code : 7539
KSH kódja: 10986
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Community type : local community
Mayor : József Hengerics ( Fidesz )
Postal address : Szabadság tér 1
7539 Szulok
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Szulok [ ˈsulok ] ( German Sulk ) is a municipality in Somogy County in Hungary . It is located in the southern Hungarian lowlands about 15 km from the Croatian border, which is marked by the Drava .

Peculiarity of the community

Due to its previously very isolated location with regard to the cultural, religious and ethnic affiliation of the inhabitants, Szulok is a popular research object in European ethnology / folklore .

history

Germans from Swabia came to Szulok between 1750 and 1770 and entered the service of Count Ladislaus Szerseny. The village church was built in 1800 by the residents, who were exclusively Roman Catholic. The place was insofar as it was surrounded by purely Hungarian villages. In 1943 the village had about 2,000 inhabitants. In 1944 many voluntarily fled to Germany from the approaching Russian army, others were later forcibly resettled. There was drilling for oil in the 1960s. A thermal spring with excellent water quality was found. The simple bath with two smaller and one large swimming pool that was then built by the kolkhoz still exists today. However, the importance of the bath for tourism and thus for jobs was not recognized, and so most of the young people emigrated due to a lack of work. Today the place has just under 600 inhabitants.

Education and culture

The village has a kindergarten, a primary school, a choir and a traditional folk dance group.

tourism

The area, which is rich in game, attracts numerous hunters to Szulok, and a horse farm in the village offers horse lovers good riding opportunities. There are also good fishing opportunities.

swell

  1. ^ Mónika Wiedner: Wedding in Sulk / Szulok . In: Contributions to the folklore of the Hungarian Germans , Volume 22, 2005, ISSN  0230-2225
  2. ^ Marietta Boross: Sulk. Contribution to changing the way of life and culture of the German settler community in Schomodei / Somogy 1715–1995 . In: Contributions to the folklore of the Hungarian Germans , Volume 21, 2004, pp. 12–66, ISSN  0230-2225 .
  3. ↑ Sophie Schwindshackl: Szulok, demographic description of the life of the population during the past century to the end of the 2nd millennium. Dissertation at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Folklore, 2002.
  4. ↑ Bernd Rieken : How the Swabians came to Szulok. Narrative research in a Hungarian village. 1st edition, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, New York 2000. ISBN 3-593-36481-6
  5. ↑ Gerlinde Kraus: Derf's Christkindl nei? : Documentation of a customary Christmas game from the village of Szulok in Swabian Turkey. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 1997
  6. ^ V. Kósa: Information on the history of the settlement and folklore of the Germans of the village of Szulok. Folklore thesis at the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs, German Chair, 1972.
  7. ^ Anton Huber: The settlement contract of the community Szulok. In: Our house calendar , Volume 56, 2004, s. 50

Further literature

  • Norbert Spannenberger: Immigration Policy and Interdenominational Coexistence in Southern Transdanubia (Szulok, p. 37), In: Rainer Bendel , Norbert Spannenberger (Hrsg.): Churches as an integration factor for migrants in the southeast of the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century. LIT Verlag Münster 2010. ISBN 978-3-643-10045-0
  • Ander Balázs: Szulok mezögazdasága és agrártársadalma a 19 - 20. Század fortulóján a Barcsi Járás statisztikai adarainak Tükrében (Eng .: Agriculture and the agrarian society of Sulk at the turn of the 20th century as reflected in the statistics of the Barcs district). In: Gyökerek 2005. Dráva Múzeum, Barcs 2005, pp. 39–84. BVB
  • Edmund Kiehnle : For rural-small-town building in Transdanubia. [using the example of Barcs and Szulok]. In: Großmann, Georg Ulrich (ed.): Building research and house research in Hungary. Report on the meeting of the Working Group for House Research eV in Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Hungary, from June 19-23, 1996 (Yearbook for House Research, Vol. 47). Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2004. ISBN 3-89445-292-7
  • Rudolf Hartmann: The German folk drama in Swabian Turkey (Hungary). Elwert, Marburg 1974. (Szulok p. 201) BVB