Tótújfalu ( hr, Novo Selo) is a village in Somogy county,

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Geography

It lies in the southern part of

Somogy County Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. Somogy County lies ...

, southeast of

Barcs Barcs ( hr, Barč; german: Bartsch or ) is a border town in Somogy County, Hungary, and the seat of Barcs District. The Drava River marks the southern boundary of the settlement. Geography Located at the Croatian border and the River Drava, the ...

, next to the

Drava River The Drava or Drave''Utrata Fachwörterbuch ...

and the Croatian border. Neighboring settlements are

Lakócsa Lakócsa ( hr, Lukovišće / Lukovišče) is a village in Somogy County, Hungary. Geography It is located near the River Drava, southeast of Barcs, south of Szigetvár and west of Sellye, in approximately the same distance from all the three tow ...

, Szentborbás and

Potony Potony ( hr, Potonja) is a village in Somogy County, Hungary. Geography It lies east of Barcs, from the River Drava, on the border of Somogy and Baranya County. Neighboring villages are Kastélyosdombó, Lakócsa, Tótújfalu and Drávagár ...

. The

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International Bicycle Route 13, "Iron Curtain" passes through Tótújfalu.

History

In the Middle Ages the village was part of

and its residents paid the

tithe A tithe (; from Old English: ''teogoþa'' "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash or cheques or more ...

to the

Pannonhalma Abbey The Benedictine Pannonhalma Archabbey or Territorial Abbey of Pannonhalma (lat. ''Archiabbatia'' or ''Abbatia Territorialis Sancti Martini in Monte Pannoniae'') is a medieval building in Pannonhalma Pannonhalma (german: Martinsberg; sk, Rábsk ...

. It was first mentioned in 1660 as the possession of the ''Istvánffy'' family and the ''Custodiatus'' of the Diocese of Székesfehérvár. Its church was built in the 15th century in

Gothic style Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths ** Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken ...

and was later rebuilt in 1750 in

Baroque style The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

. It perished once before 1715. In 1715 there were only five households. Then Slovaks settled there. However because of the migratory movements in the region in 1725 Tótújfalu is already Croatian and

Šokci Šokci ( sh, / , italics=yes, , ; , ; hu, Sokácok) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to historical regions of Baranya, Bačka, Slavonia and Syrmia. These regions today span eastern Croatia, southwestern Hungary, and northern Serbia ...

dominant. They elected their own judge, ''Thomo Vrovicz'' in the same year.László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)
/ref> In 1726 it came under the ownership of the

Zselicszentjakab Abbey The Zselicszentjakab Abbey was a Benedictine monastery established at Zselicszentjakab (now Kaposszentjakab) in Somogy County in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1061. Its founder was the Palatine Otto of the Győr clan. The monastery was dedicated to ...

. According to the 1772 county census its population spoke already Croatian. The culture of the local Croatian people can be viewed in the country house of the neighboring village,

Notable residents

Mary Helen Stefaniak Mary Helen Stefaniak is an American writer. She comes from the family of Croatian American, Croats from Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary, that originates from Novo Selo (Tótújfalu) in Hungary, being thus a part of the indigenous Croats of Hungary, Cr ...

, American writer of Croatian-Hungarian descent

External links

Street map (Hungarian)

References

Populated places in Somogy County Croatian communities in Hungary Hungarian Croatian communities in Somogy County Hungarian Slovak communities in Somogy County {{Somogy-geo-stub