Villánykövesd Explained

Official Name:Villánykövesd
Other Name:Gowisch
Settlement Type:Village
Coordinates:45.8833°N 44°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Hungary
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Baranya
Unit Pref:Imperial
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Villánykövesd (German: Gowisch) is a wine-village in Baranya county, Hungary, established 1730 by German settlers.Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were all Roman Catholic Danube Swabians (Schwowe), also called locally as Stifulder, because the majority of their ancestors had arrived in 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 in 1945–1948, consequent to the Potsdam Agreement.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf . feked.hu.
  2. Web site: Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn .