Lengyel (literally: " Polish, Pole", ) is the highest inhabited village in

Tolna County Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borde ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...

. It is located between

Bonyhád Bonyhád () is a town in Tolna County in Southwestern Hungary. History The area around Bonyhád has been inhabited since ancient times, primarily by Celts. The modern town can trace its history back to 14th century. The town was briefly uninhab ...

and

Dombóvár Dombóvár (; ) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. Dombóvár ( German :Dombowa) is a town in Tolna County , the seat of Dombóvár District . It is the third largest settlement in Tolna County , the county seat, after Szekszárd and Paks . Ar ...

. It was long held by the

Apponyi family The House of Apponyi, also known as Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, was a prominent and powerful Hungarian family of the high Upper nobility (Kingdom of Hungary), upper nobility of the Kingdom of Hungary, whose members remained notable even after the king ...

following its purchase by Count Antal György Apponyi in 1799. After approximately 200 years of residency, Lengyel's ethnic German

Danube Swabian The Danube Swabians ( ) is a collective term for the ethnic German-speaking population who lived in the Kingdom of Hungary in east-central Europe, especially in the Danube River valley, first in the 12th century, and in greater numbers in the 17 ...

population was dispossessed of its property and forcibly removed to Germany following the end of World War II.

Lengyel culture __NOTOC__ The Lengyel culture is an archaeological culture of the European Neolithic, centered on the Middle Danube in Central Europe. It flourished from 5000 to 4000 BC, ending with phase IV, e.g., in Bohemia represented by the ' Jordanow/Jord ...

is named after the village.

Cultural events

*Annabál *Pollen Youth Rock Festival

Points of interest

Lengyel's Apponyi Castle was built by Count Antal György Apponyi's third son József in 18241829 and extensively remodeled from 1878 by

Sándor Apponyi Count Sándor Apponyi de Nagyappony (19 January 1844 – 18 April 1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector. Born in Paris, where his father, Count Rudolf Apponyi, was a diplomat, Sándor also became a ...

. It suffered fire damage in 1905. After Sándor's passing away, his widow Countess Alexandra

Esterházy The House of Esterházy, also spelled Eszterházy (), is a Hungarian nobility, Hungarian noble family with origins in the Middle Ages. From the 17th century, the Esterházys were the greatest landowner magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, durin ...

donated the castle in 1926 to the

Hungarian National Museum The Hungarian National Museum (, ) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is separate to the collection of int ...

but kept the privilege of living there until her death in 1930. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

it was used by Hungary's National Cartography Office, then became a Russian

military hospital A military hospital is a hospital owned or operated by a military. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a m ...

from January to March 1945, and later that year an internment camp for displaced Germans. After 1946 it became an agricultural school. It is surrounded by 22 hectares of park with botanical rarities. The village church has a crypt of the Lengyel line of the

, with the tombs of Rudolf Apponyi and his wife Anna (née von Benckendorff) and of

and his wife Alexandra (née

). Other points of interest: * Kindergarten museum * Svájceráj (a stable built in the Swiss fashion from the 19th century) * The post office and kindergarten building (The first Apponyi manor house, which is smaller in size) * Anna Bath - With 100 hectares of forested park, a school, a lake, and a small zoo. * Sánci Peak (A historical area protected by Mór Wosinsky) with a beautiful panorama of the Kapos Valley.

People

* János Bogdán (hu) *

József Cserháti József () is a Hungarian masculine given name. It is the Hungarian name equivalent to Joseph. Notable people bearing this name include: * József Bihari (1901–1981), Hungarian actor * József Bihari (1908–1997), Hungarian linguist * Józ ...

(hu) * Mór Wosinsky (hu) File:Lengyel1.jpg,

Apponyi The House of Apponyi, also known as Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, was a prominent and powerful Hungarian family of the high upper nobility of the Kingdom of Hungary, whose members remained notable even after the kingdom's dismemberment in the successor ...

Castle File:Lengyel2.jpg, Lengyel church Image:Apponyi Sándor gróf kastélya. A felvétel 1895-1899 között készült. A kép forrását kérjük így adja meg- Fortepan - Budapest Főváros Levéltára. Levéltári jelzet- HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.11.039 Fortepan 83131.jpg, an old postcard of the Apponyi Castle

References

External links

Street map

Aerial Photography of Lengyel

Pollen Rock Festival's Webpage

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