Tét

Tét

Tét

Town in Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary

Not to be confused with Tết.

Tét (German: Tietzing) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary. It is located between the town of Pápa (21 km north) and the city of Győr (24 km south) in the Little Hungarian Plain. According to 1990 census it used to have 4,252 inhabitants, nearly all of them Hungarian by ethnicity. Neighbouring settlements are: Rábaszentmihály, Kisbabot, Rábaszentmiklós, Mórichida, Gyömöre, Felpéc, Győrszemere and the city of Győr.[2]

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History

In 1910 Tét was a village in the Sokoróalja district of the Győr County with 4,111 inhabitants. In terms of religion: 1,935 citizens (47,1%) were Lutheran, 1,890 (46,0%) Roman Catholic, 432 (10,5%) Jewish and 52 (1,3%) others. Tét population grew steadily in the interwar period. Notably, the Jews of Tét were forced into a transit ghetto and then sent aboard Holocaust trains to the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. They are featured in the Auschwitz Album, the only surviving pictorial evidence of the extermination process from inside Birkenau.

Tét received town rights (Város) in 2001.[2] Current population is estimated at 4,104 inhabitants.

Notable people

View of the centre of town from across the fields

References

  1. [1]
    Gazetteer of Hungary, 1st January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
  2. [2]
    István Molnár (28 November 2000), Tét. Overview.
  3. [3]
    Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Kisfaludy, Károly" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). pp. 834–835.
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