Lajoskomárom (german: Loischkomorn) is a village in

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History

The village of Lajoskomárom was settled by the aristocratic

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in 1802. Its name is derived from the name of its founder Lajos Batthyány and from the neighbouring village of

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, to which the area of Lajoskomárom used to belong. The settlers were of three different ethnicities (

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and

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). The biggest group were the

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, most of whom were Lutherans with a Catholic minority. They didn't come directly from abroad, but rather from areas in modern-day Hungary already settled by ethnic Germans, most notably from

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and

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. The second ones in terms of population were the Hungarians, who belonged to three distinct denominations (

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) and who arrived from various areas of Western Hungary. The Slovaks were uniformly Lutheran and mostly originated from

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. The three church towers in the crest of the village, symbolize the three denominations historically and currently present in the community.

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