Balatonszabadi is a village in Somogy county,

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. East of Balatonszabadi, there is a mediumwave broadcasting facility with a 145 metres tall guyed mast radiator used for Magyar Katolikus Rádió on 1341 kHz with 150 kW. The mast carries an FM-broadcasting antenna at a height of 56 metres. The settlement is part of the

Balatonboglár wine region The Balatonboglár wine region, also known as the South Balaton wine region, is the only one wine region in Somogy County, Hungary. The area consists of 37 settlements, mainly located on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, but also some near Kapo ...

Geography

Balatonszabadi lies on the shores of

Sió The Sió or Sió-csatorna (''Sió-Channel'') is a fully regulated river in midwest Hungary. It is the outlet, at the eastern end, of Lake Balaton, flowing out of the lake in Siófok. It flows into the river Danube near the city of Szekszárd. Sió ...

in the northeastern part of

Somogy County Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy County lies ...

, 6 km far from

Siófok Siófok (; german: Fock; la, Fuk) is a town in Somogy County, Hungary on the southern bank of Lake Balaton. It is the second largest municipality in Somogy County and the seat of Siófok District. It covers an area of about 124.66 km2 (48.1 ...

, the seat of

Siófok District Siófok ( hu, Siófoki járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Somogy County. '' Siófok'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography ...

. It can be reached by turning to the south in ''Aranypart'' ( en, Golden Shore, part of

) on the other side of M7 Motorway. The village is part of the ''Balatonboglár Wine Region''.

Demographics

The majority of the population of Balatonszabadi is Hungarian (87.1%). Significant minorities are

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(1.5%) and

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(1.4%). The population is Catholic (

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(54.7%) and

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(0.2%)). There is also a remarkable

Calvinist Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...

(11.6%) and

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

(1.5%) minority. 9.5% of the population belongs to no churches.

Main sights

The village is home to the first public statue of Lajos Kossuth in Hungary. The first sculpture was made by Béla Gerenday and was erected on June 26, 1894 on the Kossuth square, the main square of the village. But in the

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

it got seriously damaged, therefore on the centenary of the

Hungarian Revolution of 1848 The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 or fully Hungarian Civic Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 () was one of many European Revolutions of 1848 and was closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. Although t ...

, in 1948 a new monument of Lajos Kossuth was erected which is a replica of the original one.Ádámfi József: A világ Kossuth-szobrai, Budapest, 1980
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Notable residents

* Imre Veszprémi (1932 - 2013), Hungarian sculptor * Kálmán Csukás (1901 – 1943), Hungarian lieutenant colonel * János Szikszay (1803 – 1849), Hungarian Reformed pastor, martyr of the

External links

Street map (Hungarian)

References

Populated places in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub