The German settlers in Baranya who were of a Lutheran
or Reformed background tended to settle in the northern tier of the
County clustered along the border with Tolna County from where the vast
majority of them had first settled on arriving from Hesse. In most
cases they were first or second generation descendants of the original
settlers. The one exception to this rule is Tófü and to a lesser extent
Mekényes were families coming directly down the Danube settled there.
Bikal, Baranya
County
This was the Mother Church of large and sprawling
Roman Catholic parish originally but almost from its inception it had
jurisdiction over many Lutheran families locally or in the vicinity.
The baptismal/birth records begin 1729 and in addition to Bikal they
include families living in: Szaks, Tékes, Nagy Hájmas, Magocs,
Szalatnak, Mocsolád, Mórágy, Kobleny, Rác Kozar, Mekényes, Tófü, Mucsfa,
Bonyhád, Nagy Manyók and Tarros.
In the marriage register that begins in 1752
intermarriage with families from other communities include: Kobleny,
Závod, Rác Kozar, Mekényes, Mórágy, Tófü, Majós, Kakasd, Szalatnak,
Gyönk, Izmény, Kismányok, Mucsfa, Nagyszekély, Nádasd, Apar, Nagy
Hájmas, Kistormás, Kéty, Kapoly, Magocs, Bikács, Tevel, Hidas, Kalaznó,
Felsö Nána, Lengyel, Varsád, Bátaapáti, Szárázd, Szentmarton and Szas.
A Lutheran filial congregation of Rác Kozar was
formed in Bikal and all the records are part of the Lutheran Church in
Rác Kozar after the Edict of Toleration in 1784.
Csikostöttös, Baranya County
The German Lutheran settlers began to arrive in the
village in the early 1770s and settled among nationalities and
confessions. Many of the early entries with information on these
families can be found in the neighbouring Lutheran and Roman Catholic
parishes, Bikal (RC) and Rác Kozar (Lutheran) after the Edict of
Toleration.
The baptismal/birth records for the Lutheran
congregation here begin in 1808 and also include families from
Kaposszekcsö, Tarrós, Gerényes, Nagy Ág, Tékes, Ratzcsarda, Magocs, Sasd,
Slavonia, Dombovár, Jenö, Gudisar and Albaliget.
There are marriages in the church records of the
Roman Catholic Church in Magocs that includes Lutheran families from
Csikostöttös between 1795-1808.
The marriage register of the Lutheran Church begins
in 1821 and includes families from Rác Kozar, Györe, Hidas, Almas, Vasza,
Tékes, Nagy Ág, Masza, Gerényes, Tófü, Bikal, Mucsfa, Kéty, Mekényes,
Izmény, Kismányok, Döbrödöz, Nagy Hájmas, Magocs, Szabádi, Kaposszekcsö,
Majós, Tarrós, Mosdos, Varalja, Gadács, Bikal, Liget, Alsónána,
Somogyszil, Kalaznó, Vámos, Sasd, Varga, Vaszar, Hidas, Kaposvár,
Dombovár, Gödre, Liget and Ecsény. There is a gap in the register from
1841-1878.
Gerényes, Baranya County
The German Lutherans who settled here came from Tolna
County in the beginning of the 1770s and related to neighbouring
parishes especially Rác Kozar and Csikostöttös where you will find
records of baptisms and marriages. The actual congregational records
for the Lutheran congregation in the village begin in 1815. The
baptismal/birth records also include families from Dombovár,
Csikostöttös, Vasardombo, Magocs, Rác Kozar, Tófü and Mocsolád.
There is also a marriage register covering the years
1819-1826 and include families living in Tarrós, Nagy Ág, Mucsfa, Nagy
Hájmas, Kaposszekcsö, Tófü, Györe, Hidas, Almas, Gyönk, Rác Kozar,
Kispuszta, Varalja, Tékes, Bonyhád, Mekényes, Csikostöttös and Kéty.
Hidas, Baranya County
There were Lutheran and Reformed settlers from Hesse
who settled in the community after the original Serbian cattle herders
moved on from here. Entries with regard to these families can be found
in various Lutheran congregations in the area, especially in Kismányok
from the early settlement period as well as the Roman Catholic records
in Bonyhád.
The Lutheran church records in Hidas begin after the
Edict of Toleration. The baptismal/birth records begin in 1786 and in
addition to families living in Hidas there are few entries related to
families in Bonyhád, Börzsóny, Szabádi, Berekalja and Nagy Ag.
The marriage register begins in 1862 after Hidas
became a Mother Church prior to that the marriages are to be found in
Majós and Bonyhad. In addition to the families living in Hidas there
was intermarriage with families in Izmény, Bonyhád, Varsád, Kismányok,
Bátaapáti, Kéty, Berekalja, Varalja, Nádasd, Majós, Alsónána, Máza,
Glasshütte, Börzsóny, Mórágy, Bikal, Györe, Rác Kozar and Zsibrik.
A Reformed congregation was also established in the
community and the birth/baptismal records begin in 1802. There are also
some entries for families who are living in Börzsóny, Varalja, Bonyhád,
Nagy Manyók, Nádasd, Somogyszil and Máza.
The marriage register begins in 1803 and includes
families who intermarried with the families of Hidas who lived in the
communities of Varalja, Bonyhád, Bátaapáti, Majós, Gyönk, Mórágy,
Zsibrik, Rác Kozar, Nádasd, Magyar Bóly, Mekényes and Börzsóny.
Kaposszekcsö, Baranya County
(Sometimes referred to as simply Székcö)
The earliest references to the German Lutherans who
settled here mainly coming from Tolna County in the 1770’s can be found
in the Bikal Roman Catholic church records and the Lutheran church
records in Rác Kozar after the Edict of Toleration took effect there in
1783. The marriages are confined to those records, while there are
baptismal/birth records from the congregation in Kaposszekcsö beginning
in 1796 and also include a few Lutheran families who were living in
Tarrós, Szabádi and Jagonak.
Magocs, Baranya County
This was primarily a German Roman Catholic village
but there were numerous Lutheran families who lived among them and
related to the nearest Lutheran Church as indicated in the other
articles.
Mekényes, Baranya County
Like most of the settlements of the Lutheran Hessians
from Tolna County, Mekényes was part of the Dombovár Domains of the
Eszterházy family. The original thirty families who arrived here came
from Gyönk in 1735 and a close relationship between these families and
those they left behind would continue in the future. The early entries
with regard to the families living here were in various other church
records, especially in Kismányok in the Lutheran church records there as
well as in other Lutheran congregations. In addition a great deal of
information can also be found in the Lengyel Roman Catholic records as
well as the Roman Catholic records in Bikal. The congregation became a
Mother Church shortly after the Edict of Toleration and served several
neighbouring filial congregations after 1782.
The baptismal/birth records begin in 1782 and in
addition to entries for the local village there are also entries for
families in the neighbouring villages, including Majós, Nagy Hájmas,
Csurgo, Magocs, Dalmand, Bettelmann, Leperet, Györe, Fischerhütte,
Guirgya, Döbrökaz, Ivanca, Zsibrik, Kis Puszta, Tófü and Fehérvasard.
The marriage register that begins in 1784 includes
families living in Mucsfa, Gyönk, Majós, Gerényes, Tófü, Rác Kozar,
Izmény, Lepert, Bettelmann, Kismányok, Csikostöttös, Döbrökaz, Csurgo,
Varsád, Mocsolád, Dalmand, Kalaznó, Nagy Hájmas, Magocs, Bikal, Felsö
Nána, Kajdacs, Ivanca, Váralja, Kaposszekcsö, Vaszar, Nagy Ág, Bonyhád,
Kistormás, Baja, Hidas, Zsibrik, Mórágy, Keszö Hidegkút, Ecsény, Györe,
Kis Vejke, Gyirgyo, Kis Puszta, Kéty, Tarrós, Szárázd, Szabádi, Tékes,
Somogyszil, Murga, Vasardombo and Gadács.
Nagy Ág, Baranya County
Settlers from the Hessian Lutheran villages in the
Tolna began to arrive here in 1771 and lived among the local Hungarian
Roman Catholic population. They related to several Lutheran
congregations in the area, especially Gerényes and Csikostöttös and as
otherwise indicated.
Nagy Hájmas, Baranya County
(Also simply called Hájmas)
This village was on the estates of the Bishop of Pécs
and surprisingly a group of Hessian Lutheran families from the Tolna
settled here along with German Roman Catholics and managed to eventually
become a filial of Mekényes. References and entries relating to these
families can be found chiefly in Mekényes and some of the other
neighbouring congregations both in Baranya and Tolna Counties.
Rác Kozar, Baranya County
(Also known as Egyházaskozár)
The German Lutheran settlers on this Eszterházy
estate arrived in the mid 1750s and entries related to the families can
be found in other Lutheran congregations in southern Tolna County as
specified in some other records previously as well as in Bikal a Roman
Catholic parish in the vicinity until 1783 when the Lutherans formed a
Mother Church and served other Lutheran families in the vicinity.
The baptismal/birth records begin in 1783 and include
families from Nagy Ág, Tófü, Majós, Bikal, Csikostöttös, Kaposszekcsö,
Magyar Bóly, Gerényes, Tékes, Nagy Hájmas, Tarrós, Mórágy, Szabádi, Szas,
Vásárosdombo and Szekszárd.
The marriage register begins in 1783 and also
includes families from Tófü, Mucsfa, Bikal, Mekényes, Tékes, Nagy Ág,
Kistormás, Csikostöttös, Varsád, Hidas, Gerényes, Kaposszekcsö, Váralja,
Kalaznó, Bátaapáti, Tabód, Felsö Nána, Kismányok, Izmény, Tarrós, Kéty,
Bonyhád, Nagy Hájmas, Szárázd, Mocsolád, Vásárosdombo, Kajdács, Mórágy,
Vaszar, Merszodi Puszta, Gyönk, Tarrós, Varsád, Györköny, Kis Vejke,
Szabádi, Dalmand, Ecsény, Györe, Egre, Keszöhidegkút, Döbrökaz, Paks,
Bárcs, Murga, Lajos Komárom, Kötcse, Máza, Somogyszil, Liget, Varalja,
Berzgallya, Szekszárd and Somogydöröcske.
Tarrós, Baranya County
There were several German Lutheran families who lived
in this village but who related to the nearby Lutheran congregations in
their vicinity especially Csikostöttös.
Tékes, Baranya County
This was an ethnically mixed village with a
substantial German Lutheran minority who related to various Lutheran
congregations in the vicinity as indicated in some of the above
articles.
