Kisvejke Explained

Subdivision Type:Country
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Official Name:Kisvejke
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Tolna
Area Total Km2:11.33
Population Total:416
Population As Of:2004
Population Density Km2:36.71
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:7183
Area Code:74
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Kisvejke
Coordinates:46.3806°N 18.413°W

Kisvejke (German: Deitschwecke) is a village in Tolna County, Hungary.

Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were Roman Catholic Danube Swabians, also locally called Stifulder, because the majority of their ancestors once arrived during the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).[1] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria between 1945 and 1948 after the Potsdam Agreement.[2] As a result, only a few Germans live there; the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange.

The Stifolder or Stiffoller are a Roman Catholic Subgroup of the Danube Swabians. Their ancestors arrived between 1717 and 1804 from the Hochstift Fulda and surroundings (Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda), and settled in Baranya and Tolna.[3] They hold their own German Stiffolerisch Schvovish dialect and culture, and have a salami after them.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf . feked.hu.
  2. Web site: Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn .
  3. Web site: Ihr Herz schlägt im Süden / [1], "Stifoller" Kolonisten in der Tolnau und Branau/Ungarn, 1717-1804 ; so könnte es gewesen sein].
  4. Web site: The best salami in Hungary . 25 July 2018 .