Szabadi is a village in Somogy county,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. The settlement is part of the

Balatonboglár wine region The Balatonboglár wine region, also known as the South Balaton wine region, is the only one wine region in Somogy County, Hungary. The area consists of 37 settlements, mainly located on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, but also some near Kap ...

Geography

It lies in the valley of the ''River Kapos'', 20 km east of

Kaposvár Kaposvár (; also known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in southwestern Hungary, south of Lake Balaton. It is one of the leading cities of Transdanubia, the capital of Somogy County, and the seat of the Kaposvár District and th ...

on the road 61, next to the ''

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Gyékényes Gyékényes () is a village in Somogy county, Hungary next to the Croatian border. Its train station serves as an important crossing point into Croatia. History Gyékényes and its surroundings were already inhabited in the time of the Roman E ...

Railway Line''. It has a common railway station with the neighboring Csoma. The nearest town,

is 9 km away.

History

Szabadi was first mentioned in the papal tithe register between 1332 and 1337. After the Turkish occupation its residents were mostly gentries (''kuriális falu'' ) in 1969. In the same year the village came from

Tolna County Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borde ...

Somogy County Somogy (, ; ; , ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia's Koprivnica- ...

. The

Batthyány The House of Batthyány () is an ancient and distinguished Hungarian noble magnate family. The Head of the family bears the title Prince (Fürst) of Batthyány-Strattmann, while other members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf ...

family became its owner in 1715. Later it belonged to the Schmiedegg and

families. Its first Roman Catholic school opened in 1770. The Lutherans also established their own school in 1839 which operated until 1937. The seal of Szabadi is since 1788 in usage. According to the 1849 census Szabadi and ''Kisgát'' had together 136 Hungarian and 200 German residents.László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
/ref> Its population was always around 500 and Hungarian in majority with a significant German minority. The residents started to migrate to

or to the nearby towns (

, Igal,

Sásd Sásd () is a town in Baranya county, in southern Hungary. The total population of Sásd in 2015 was 3,094. Twin towns – sister cities Sásd is twinned with: * Izvoru Crișului, Romania * Raaba Raaba, also known as Raaba bei Graz, was a v ...

etc.). The Lutherans built their church in the 19th century which perished with time, therefore they built a new one in 1998.

Main sights

* stone crosses (1866, 1880, 1902) * four old houses (built at the beginning of the 20th century)

External links

Street map (Hungarian)

References

Populated places in Somogy County Hungarian German communities in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub