Bátaszék (german: Badeseck, sr, Батсек, Batsek) is a town in

Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

. The majority residents are Hungarians, with a minority of

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

. "The oldest tree of Bátaszék" won the title of

European Tree of the Year The European Tree of the Year is an annual contest held to find the most 'loveable tree' in Europe. The contest is held by the Environmental Partnership Association (EPA), an organization supported by the European Land Owners Association and the ...

2016. The Roman Catholic writer Miklós Bátori was born in Bátaszék.

History

During World War II, Bátaszék was captured on 28 November 1944 by

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

troops of the

3rd Ukrainian Front The 3rd Ukrainian Front (Russian: Третий Украинский фронт) was a Front of the Red Army during World War II. It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southweste ...

in the course of the Budapest Offensive.

Sport

* Bátaszéki SE, association football club

Twin towns — sister cities

Bátaszék is twinned with: *

Besigheim Besigheim () is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 13 km north of Ludwigsburg at the confluence of the Neckar and Enz rivers. The town has many old buildings and a t ...

, Germany *

Ditrău Ditrău (; or ''Gyergyóditró'' ) is a commune in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Ditrău, Jolotca (''Orotva''), and Țengheler (''Csengellér'' or ''Cengellér''). The commune sits near the river Mar ...

, Romania *

Tekovské Lužany Tekovské Lužany ( hu, Nagysalló) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1156. The settlement had Hungarian majority in the 17th ce ...

, Slovakia

Gallery

File:BataszekFotoThalerTamas2.jpg, Roman Catholic Church in Bátaszék File:Bátaszék3.jpg, View at the site of the Cikádor Abbey File:Bátaszék vasútállomás.JPG, Bátaszék railway station File:BataszekFotoThalerTamas.jpg, "The oldest tree of Bátaszék",

2016.

References

External links

Street map
Populated places in Tolna County Serb communities in Hungary Hungarian German communities {{Tolna-geo-stub