Etymology

The name comes from Slavic ''*ChrasňaChrastné Chrastné ( hu, Abaújharaszti) is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia. History Historically, the village was first mentioned in 1357. Geography The village lies at an altitude of 225 ...

( Slovakia), Chrastná ( Czech Republic) or

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( Bosnia and Herzegovina). ''Chrast'' ( Proto-Slavic ''chvorstь''): desne bush, deadwood. ''Chrastna'': an area covered by "chrast".

Geography

It lies south of Nagyatád, near the

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, between Vízvár and

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History

Heresznye was first mentioned in 1219 as ''Haraznia iuxta Dravam'' in official documents. Later, between 1332 and 1337 in the papal tithe register it can be found with its own parish. In 1384 there were two villages with the name Heresznye. The first one, ''Egyházasheresnye'' belonged to the

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. The second one, ''Felrétheresnye'' was owned by the Bánfi family of Alsólendva and later by the ''Marczali'' family, then the Báthori family in 1495. According to the 1536 tax register ''Felsőheresznye'' belonged to Bálint Török, ''Alsóheresznye'' to ''András Báthori'' and the local priest. In 1550 ''Felső-Heresznye'' is owned by ''Ferenc Tahy'', ''Bolhó-Heresznye'' by ''András Báthori''. In the tax register of

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from 1660 mentioned the settlement under the suzerainty of Szent-Györgyvár. ''György Széchényi'' Archbishop of Kalocsa got the village from Leopold I in 1677. During the Turkish occupation its population died or flew away. In 1726 and in 1733 it was already uninhabited and belonged to ''Zsigmond Széchényi''. From 1750 it is again an independent village. The ''Széchényi'' family decided to settle Croats from Slavonia to revive Heresznye. There was a huge conflagration when two-thirds of the houses of Heresznye burnt down. At the beginning of the 20th century ''Ödön Solymossy'' was its owner. According to the 1910 census out of its 715 residents 87 were Hungarian and 628 Croat, furthermore 707 Roman Catholic and 6 Jew.

Main sights

* Roman Catholic church - built in 1935 and was dedicated to Saint Stephen of Hungary- Magyar Címerek - Heresznye község címere
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References

External links

Street map (Hungarian)
Populated places in Somogy County Hungarian Slovak communities in Somogy County Hungarian Croatian communities in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub