Závod (german: Seiwicht) 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.
Until the end of
World War II, the inhabitants were
Roman Catholic Danube Swabians, also called locally as ''Stifulder'', because the majority of their ancestors once came during the 17th and 18th centuries from
Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to
allied-occupied Germany and
allied-occupied Austria
The Allied occupation of Austria started on 8 May 1945 with the fall of Nazi Germany and ended with the Austrian State Treaty on 27 July 1955.
After the in 1938, Austria had generally been recognized as part of Nazi Germany. In 1943, however, ...
in 1945–1948, as a result of the
Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement (german: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union on 1 August 1945. A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned th ...
.
Only a few
Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the
Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They occupied the houses of the former Danube Swabians inhabitants.
The Stifolder or Stiffoller are a Roman Catholic Subgroup of the
Danube Swabians. Their ancestors once came ca. 1717 - 1804 from the Hochstift Fulda and surroundings, (
Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda), and settled in the Baranya and in Tolna. They retained their own German Stiffolerisch Schvovish dialect and culture, until the end of WW2. Also a salami is named after these people.
References
External links
Street map
Populated places in Tolna County
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