Gadács (german: Gadatsch) is a village in Somogy county,

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Etymology

The village got its name from its first owner, ''Gudas'' which was also the medieval name of the settlement. Later it changed to ''Gadács''.

Geography

It lies east of Igló, between

Somogyacsa Somogyacsa is a village in Somogy county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to t ...

and

Somogyszil Somogyszil (german: Sil) is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. Etymology It was first mentioned in 1138 as ''Scilu'' in Dömös Chapter's land donation letter. Its meaning is ''covered with elm''. In 1864 its name got conjunct with ''Somogy'' ...

History

It was first mentioned in 1338 as a possession of the

Dömös Chapter The Dömös Chapter was a collegiate chapter, established around 1107, in the Kingdom of Hungary. It was dedicated to Saint Margaret of Antioch. Establishment Duke Álmosthe younger brother of Coloman the Learned, King of Hungaryestablished ...

as ''Gudas''. In the Middle Ages it was part of

Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), 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 ...

. In the tax registration of 1542 it was referred to as a settlement in Tolna County. According to the tax registration of the

Ottoman Porte The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte ( ota, باب عالی, Bāb-ı Ālī or ''Babıali'', from ar, باب, bāb, gate and , , ), was a synecdoche for the central government of the Ottoman Empire. History The nam ...

it had 9 households in 1563, then 10 households in the tax registrations of 1573–1574, 1578 and 1580 respectively. Between 1701 and 1703 this territory was uninhabited and belonged to the ''Komáromy'' family. Lutheran Germans settled in the village in the 18th century who mostly came from other parts of

. In 1726 Gadács was owned by ''János Fekete'', in 1733 by the

Hunyadi family The Hunyadi family was one of the most powerful Hungarian nobility, noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary during the 15th century. A member of the family, Matthias Corvinus, was King of Hungary from 1458 until 1490, King of Bohemia (ruli ...

, finally between 1757 and 1766 by ''János Hunyadi''. Until 1848 it was part of

and later became independent. In the 1930s 447 people lived there in 91 households.

Coat of arms

Its coat of arms refers mainly to the re-establishment of the village after the Turkish occupation. Gadács was depopulated under Turkish rule, leading the landlords to invite German farming families. This can be seen as the lion motif, which indicates the original residence of the German population, the state of

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

in Germany. The armored arm with the three arrows, however, comes from the coat of arms of the

to remember the then landowner of Gadács.

Main sights

* Lutheran Church (built in the 19th century)

External links

Street map (Hungarian)

References

Populated places in Somogy County Hungarian German communities in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub