Kübekháza () is a settlement (village) in

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, in

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. It is situated directly near the Romanian-Serbian-Hungarian triple border point, also known as the ''Triplex Confinium''. A border crossing to

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opened in October 2019, ending the century of isolation of the neighbouring Serbian village of Rabe. The village has an area of and 1418 inhabitants.

History

Kübekháza was founded in 1844 by the settlement of tobacco farmers. Starting in the 1850s, increasing numbers of impoverished Hungarian farmers left the village, and were replaced by

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. By the start of the

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around 20% of the village's population was

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. Many Swabians fled the village before the advance of the

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, since the majority of male Swabian villagers were SS-volunteers. The remaining Germans were forcibly expelled in the following years, and in 2020 the town's German population was less than 0.8%. However, the village still honours its German heritage with street signs and boards that displaying information in German alongside Hungarian. The village was named after the Austrian statesman Karl Friedrich von Kübeck (). Kübeck did not take direct action in the foundation of the settlement and likely never visited Kübekháza.

Culture

The settlement is sometimes called operetta-village because of the operetta-festival held with famous participants every summer.

References

Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County {{Csongrad-geo-stub