Vaskút

Vaskút

Vaskút

Place in Bács-Kiskun, Hungary

Vaskút (German: Waschkut or Eisenbrunn, Croatian: Baškut or Vaškut) is a large village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

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Location of Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary

Geography

It covers an area of 71.49 km2. It has a population of 3327 people (2015).[1]

Demographics

Before 1945, there was high share of Germans (Danube Swabians) in Vaskút's population, that spoke their own dialect of German language.
After the war, numerous Magyars (Szeklers from Bukovina and Csángós from Moldavia) were settled here.

Notable persons

  • Stefan Schoblocher (1937), writer
  • Fabijan Peštalić (1845–1909), Franciscan, important personality of national movement of the Danubian Croats
  • Grgur Peštalić (1755–1809), Franciscan, Croatian writer
  • Bede Lackner (1927–2020), Catholic priest and monk[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
  2. [2]
    Obituary, dignitymemorial.com, accessed 14 Nov 2020.

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