Elek

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Elek
Town
Monument of the deported Germans
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5742
Area code	(+36) 66
Website	www.elek.hu

Elek (German: Renndorf, Romanian: Aletea) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.^[1] Until the Second World War, the town was home to the largest concentration of Germans in the county, with its population consisting almost entirely of Swabians. Jews lived in the city as early as the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.^[2][3]

Geography

The town covers an area of 54.94 km² (21.21 sq mi) and had a population of 5,567 in 2002.

History

• 1232 : First mentioned
• 1566-1696 : Ottoman rule (Ottoman wars in Europe)
• 1724 : settling of German colonists (predominantly from Franconia)
• 1739 : Bubonic plague
• 1894 :
  Artesian aquifer
• 1920 : Elek becomes border town (Treaty of Trianon)
• 1946 :
  Expulsion of German inhabitants
• 1996 : Elek gains town status

Twin towns

Elek is

• Gerolzhofen, Germany (1990)
• Alerheim, Germany (1992)
• Leimen, Germany (1992)
• Sebiș (Borossebes), Romania (1992)
• Gerlingen, Germany
• Laudenbach, Germany (1994)
• Veľké Kapušany (Nagykapocs), Slovakia (1996)
• Grăniceri (Ottlaka), Romania (1997)
• Dumbrava (Igazfalva), Romania (2019)

References

External links

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• Official website in Hungarian

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