Pócsa

Pócsa (German: Bootsch) is a village and municipality (Hungarian: község) in Baranya county, Hungary. Residents are Magyars, with minority of Germans. 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).^[3] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement.^[4] 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.

Pócsa Bootsch
Municipality
Coat of arms
Pócsa Location within Hungary.
Coordinates: 45°54′44.89″N 18°28′13.76″E
Country	Hungary
Region	Southern Transdanubia
County	Baranya
District	Bóly
Government [1]
• Type	Mayor-council government
• Mayor	Sándor Nyisztor (Ind.)
Area [2]
• Total	8.05 km2 (3.11 sq mi)
Population  (2018)[2]
• Total	155
• Density	19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	7756
Area code	69
Geocode	22266

Geography

Pócsa is located in east central Baranya County, about 5 kilometers north of Villány, 7 kilometers from Bóly and 25 kilometers from Pécs. 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 178. The vast majority of the population claimed Hungarian ethnicity (95%), though 30.3% also claimed German ethnicity and the municipality has a German local minority self-government. Other ethnicities included Roma (1.6%), Croatian (1.1%) and Romanian (1.1%). 3.8% did not wish to answer. In terms of religious practice, 71.4% reported to be Roman Catholic, 4.9% Calvinist, 0.5% Lutheran, 5.4% of no religious affiliation and 17.8% did not wish to answer.^[5]

Transport

The closest railway station is in Villány, 5 kilometers to the south.

References

1. "Municipal Elections 2014" (in Hungarian). Hungarian National Election Office. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
2. "Gazetteer of Hungary, 1st January 2018". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
3. "Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf" (PDF). feked.hu.
4. "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
5. "Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 5 June 2019.