Mecseknádasd ( hr, Nadoš, Nadaš; german: Nadasch) is a town in
Baranya county
Baranya ( hu, Baranya megye, ) is a county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya region, which was a county (''comitatus'') in the Kingdom of Hungary dating back to the ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning 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 ...
. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were
Danube Swabians
The Danube Swabians (german: Donauschwaben ) is a collective term for the ethnic German-speaking population who lived in various countries of central-eastern Europe, especially in the Danube River valley, first in the 12th century, and in grea ...
. Most of the former German Settlers were expelled to Germany and Austria in 1945–1948, following the
Potsdam Agreement.
Only a few
Germans of Hungary
German Hungarians (german: Ungarndeutsche, hu, magyarországi németek) are the German-speaking minority of Hungary, sometimes called Danube Swabians (German: ''Donauschwaben'', Hungarian: ''dunai svábok''), many of whom call themselves "Shwov ...
live there today. The majority are the descendants of Hungarians from the
Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange The Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange was the exchange of inhabitants between Czechoslovakia and Hungary after World War II. Between 45,000 and 120,000 Hungarians were forcibly transferred from Czechoslovakia to Hungary, and their propert ...
.
Sightseeings
Szent Istvan kapolna Mecseknadasd.jpg, Medieval Saint Stephen
Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...
s church
File:Het bisschoppelijk paleis.jpg, Bishops palace
Liszt Ferenc Mecseknádasd.jpg, Bust of Franz Liszt
In the cemetery hill there is an old,
Árpád
Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or '' kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' g ...
-age
Romanesque church, which was originally the parish church of the village.
In front of the elementary school behind the Bishop's Palace is a statue of
Franz Liszt.
Moreover, the village cultivates the remembrance of
Saint Margaret of Scotland. She was the daughter of the English prince
Edward the Exile
Edward the Exile (1016 – 19 April 1057), also called Edward Ætheling, was the son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. He spent most of his life in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary following the defeat of his father by Cnut the Great.
Ex ...
, son of
Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside (30 November 1016; , ; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of York. Edmund's reign was marred by ...
. She was born at
Castle Réka, Mecseknádasd.
References
External links
Official side Mecseknádasd
Populated places in Baranya County
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
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