Somogydöröcske

Coordinates: 46°35′14″N 18°00′20″E / 46.58727°N 18.00565°E / 46.58727; 18.00565
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Somogydöröcske
Village
Centre of Somogydöröcske
Centre of Somogydöröcske
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Mihály Witzmann (Fidesz)

Somogydöröcske is a village in Somogy county, Hungary.

Geography

It lies southwest of Tamási, along the Brook Koppány. It is south of the main road running between Somogyacsa and Törökkoppány.

History

Somogydöröcske or Döröcske belonged to

Pauline Fathers had a monastery
there in the Middle Ages, its memory is preserved by the hill called Klastromhegy (English: Monastery Mountain). In 1660 it was owned by Miklós Zankó.

In the tax registration of 1703 it was an uninhabited territory of Miklós Zankó and Boldizsár Zankó. In 1726 one half of the settlement belonged to the Harrach family and the other half to János Esterházy. In 1733, the village was owned by the Hunyadi family who settled Lutheran Germans there in the 18th century. In 1876, there was a huge landslide which damaged the church and the local school building.

In 1910, the population of the settlement was 842 people of which 796 were

Hungarian. According to their religious affiliation, 789 were Lutheran, 41 Roman Catholic and 3 Calvinist
.

Main sights

  • Lutheran Church (built in 1836)
  • Monument of the First and the Second World War

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