Németkér (german: Kier) is a village in

Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), 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 ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the 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 a ...

. It is located at about 100 km south of Budapest. It belongs to the small area

Paks Paks is a small town in Tolna county, in the south of Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube River, 100 km south of Budapest. Paks as a former agricultural settlement is now the home of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant, which provi ...

. Németkér was founded in 1785 by the Abbey Földvár and German settlers (so-called ''Donauschwaben'') colonized, who had followed the call of the

Habsburg monarchy The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...

, to settle the land after the completion of the Turkish wars. After the end of the

Second World War 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 opposin ...

, the

Danube Swabians The Danube Swabians (german: Donauschwaben ) is a collective term for the ethnic German-speaking population who lived in various countries of central-eastern Europe, especially in the Danube River valley, first in the 12th century, and in grea ...

were resettled in the American occupation zone of Germany.

Notable people

Stefan Reisch Stefan Reisch (born 29 November 1941) is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Reisch was born in Németkér, Hungary. As most of the Danube Swabians did after World War II, the Reisch fam ...

- A football player Populated places in Tolna County {{Tolna-geo-stub