Palkonya
Palkan
Aerial photography: Palkonya, temple
Aerial photography: Palkonya, temple
Location of Baranya county in Hungary
Location of Baranya county in Hungary
Palkonya is located in Hungary
Palkonya
Palkonya
Location of Palkonya
Coordinates: 45°53′52″N 18°23′29″E / 45.89769°N 18.39137°E / 45.89769; 18.39137
Country Hungary
CountyBaranya
Area
  Total10 km2 (4 sq mi)
Population
 (2004)
  Total308
  Density30.8/km2 (80/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
7771
Area code72

Palkonya (German: Palkan; Croatian: Plakinja or Palkonija) is a village in Baranya County, Hungary. This village was once settled by Turks in Hungary until 1699 and the church was once a mosque. Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuris from Fulda (district).[1] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, consequent to the Potsdam Agreement.[2] Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.

References

  1. "Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf" (PDF). feked.hu.
  2. "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".


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