Kapoly
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 Saint Michael Roman Catholic church in Kapoly | |
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Kapoly is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. Political leader János Kádár originates from the village, his childhood was spent in Kapoly.
Geography
It lies between Siófok and Kaposvár and can be reached by car or train.
History
Kapoly was first mentioned in a royal doctrine of
Bishop of Veszprém. Around 1598 and 1599 they were a possession of the Castle of Tihany under the name Nagykapoly. According to the 1609 Urbarium Nagykapoly had 10 peasant residents. The Court of Zala County awarded János Lengyel Tóti the villages of Nagykapoly, Lullya, Endréd in 1612. It was a possession of Tihany Abbey in 1645. Then in 1660 it belonged to the Perneszy family. János Perneszi gave his lands in Kis-Kapoly to János Szabó in 1665. Zsigmond Perneszi and Julianna Perneszi owned Kapoly in 1695. In the 1715 register there were 6 households and belonged to Anna Julianna Perneszi, the widow of Ferenc Babócsay. One half of the settlement was in the hands of the Perneszy family the other half in the hands of the Tihany Abbey
in 1733.
Between 1720 and 1727 the first wave of German settlers arrived in Kapoly. There were also some Slovak families. But the village preserved its Hungarian dominance throughout the next centuries.[2]
Before 1848 the
Jews.[3]
There was a huge cholera epidemic in 1855 when 60 people died in Kapoly.
In 1910 it had 1,020 residents of which 1,018 were Hungarians. According to their religious affiliation there were 404
Roman Catholics, 577 Calvinists and 30 Lutherans
.
Main sights
- Roman Catholic church
- Reformed church - built in 1838[4]
- Kádár House - the Hungarian dictator, János Kádár lived there from the age of three months
- monument of the Second World War
Notable residents
- József Vécsey de Hernádvécse (ca. 1760 – 1821), Hungarian Reformed pastor
- József Kiss (1816 – 1905), Hungarian Reformed pastor, lieutenant
- János Kádár (1912-1989), Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Gallery
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Wine cellar entrance in Kapoly -
Kádár House -
Grain field in Kapoly -
Reformed church
External links
References
- ^ Kapoly, KSH
- ^ László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
- ^ László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
- ^ muemlekvedelem.hu - Református templom, Kapoly
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