Somogydöröcske is a village in Somogy county,

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Geography

It lies southwest of

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, along the ''Brook Koppány''. It is south of the main road running between Somogyacsa and

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History

Somogydöröcske or Döröcske belonged to

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in the Middle Ages. It was first mentioned in 1138 as ''villa Diarugsa'' as a possession of the

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. Its name was written in 1267 as ''Derekche'', between 1424 and 1436 as ''Derecske''. In the 13th century the village belonged to the ''Döröcske'' clan, but also the Nádor of

, ''Majs'' had lands there between 1270 and 1272. The

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had a

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there in the Middle Ages, its memory is preserved by the hill called ''Klastromhegy'' (). In 1660 it was owned by ''Miklós Zankó''. In the tax registration of 1703 it was an uninhabited territory of ''Miklós Zankó'' and ''Boldizsár Zankó''. In 1726 one half of the settlement belonged to the Harrach family and the other half to ''János Esterházy''. In 1733, the village was owned by the

Hunyadi family The House of Hunyadi was one of the most powerful noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary during the 15th century. A member of the family, Matthias Corvinus, was King of Hungary from 1458 until 1490, King of Bohemia (ruling in Moravia, Low ...

who settled Lutheran Germans there in the 18th century. In 1876, there was a huge landslide which damaged the church and the local school building. In 1910, the population of the settlement was 842 people of which 796 were

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and 46 Hungarian. According to their religious affiliation, 789 were

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, 41

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and 3

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Main sights

* Lutheran Church (built in 1836) * Monument of the First and the Second World War

External links

Street map

References

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