Kisbudmér

Kisbudmér (German: Kleinbudmer; Croatian: Mali Budmir) is a village and municipality (Hungarian: község) in Baranya county, Hungary.

Kisbudmér Kleinbudmer
Municipality
Kisbudmér Location within Hungary.
Coordinates: 45°54′53″N 18°26′46″E
Country	Hungary
Region	Southern Transdanubia
County	Baranya
District	Bóly
Government [1]
• Type	Mayor-council government
• Mayor	Ferenc Kelemen (Ind.)
Area [2]
• Total	5.72 km2 (2.21 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]
• Total	87
• Density	15/km2 (39/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	7756
Area code	69
Geocode	22868

Etymology

The name comes from Slavic personal name Budimír.^[3] Budmer (1291).^[3]

Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants' majority was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).^[4] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, pursuant to the Potsdam Agreement.^[5] Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.

Geography

Kisbudmér is located in Baranya County, about 25 kilometers southeast of Pécs, 9 kilometers southwest of Bóly and 13 kilometers north of Villány. It is about 25 kilometers west of the Danube, 20 kilometers from Croatia and 40 kilometers from Serbia. The municipality lies within the Southern Transdanubia Region of Hungary. It previously was part of the Mohács Subregion but during the creation of districts in 2013, it became part of Bóly District.

Demographics

During the census of 2011, the population was 113. The vast majority of the population claimed Hungarian ethnicity (92.2%). Other ethnicities claimed included Roma (4.3%), German (3.4%), Romanian (1.7%) and Other (1.7%). 6% did not wish to answer. In terms of religious practice, 44% reported to be Roman Catholic, 4.3% Calvinist, 21.6% of no religious affiliation and 29.3% did not wish to answer.^[2]

Transport

The closest railway station is in Villány, 13.6 kilometers to the south.

References

1. "Municipal Elections 2014" (in Hungarian). Hungarian National Election Office. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
2. "Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary". Hungarian Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
3. Kiss, Lajos (1978). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai. p. 338.
4. "Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf" (PDF). feked.hu.
5. "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".