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

Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (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 river Danube. It shares borders ...

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. It is located between

Bonyhád Bonyhád (german: Bonnhard) is a town in Tolna County in Southwestern Hungary. Government It is governed by a city council and a mayor. The current mayor of Bonyhád is Filóné Ferencz Ibolya who has served in this capacity since 2014. Populati ...

and

Dombóvár Dombóvár (german: Dombowa; la, Iowia) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. Twin towns – sister cities Dombóvár is twinned with: * Kernen im Remstal, Germany * Ogulin, Croatia * Vir, Croatia * Höganäs, Sweden Notable people * Ján Gol ...

. It was long held by the

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

following its purchase by Count Antal György Apponyi in 1799.

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/Jorda ...

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. It suffered fire damage in 1905. After Sándor's passing away, his widow Countess Alexandra Esterházy donated the castle in 1926 to the

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

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

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

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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 Sándor Apponyi and his wife Alexandra (née Esterházy). 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

* Sándor Apponyi * János Bogdán (hu) * József Cserháti (hu) * Mór Wosinsky (hu) After approximately 200 years of residency, Lengyel's ethnic German Danube Swabian population was dispossessed of its property and forcibly removed to Germany following the end of World War II. File:Lengyel1.jpg,

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

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

{{authority control Populated places in Tolna County Hungarian German communities Polish communities in Hungary Apponyi family