Beremend

Beremend Behrend
Large village
Chapel of Peace in Beremend
Flag Coat of arms
Beremend Location of Beremend
Coordinates: 45.78384°N 18.43233°E / 45.78384; 18.43233
Country	Hungary
County	Baranya
District	Siklós
Area
• Total	48.26 km^2 (18.63 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	2,467
• Density	58.18/km^2 (150.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	7827
Area code	(+36) 72

Beremend (German: Behrend; Serbian: Бреме, Breme; Croatian: Breme, Bremen, Brime[1]) is a village in Baranya County, Hungary on the Croatian border, it constitutes the southernmost point of the country.[2]

History

In the 17th and 18th century, the village was settled by Germans, Serbs and Hungarians after a victory over the Ottoman Empire.[3]

Until the end of World War II, the town's inhabitants were Danube Swabians, also referred to locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from the German district of Fulda.[4] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945–1948, consequent to the Potsdam Agreement.[5]

Few Germans remain today. The majority of the modern population are the descendants of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They occupied the houses of the former Danube Swabian inhabitants.

Weather

In Beremend, it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 28 °F to 83 °F and is rarely below 16 °F or above 92 °F.[6]

EU Refugee Crisis

Thousands of refugees arrived from Croatia enter Hungary as Hungarian army members take security measures at Hungarian-Croatian border on September 19, 2015.[7] Thousands drowned while trying the cross the Mediterranean from Libya and Turkey to Europe, prompting an EU-wide mission to intercept people attempting to make the crossing. However, Hungary sent armored vehicles to its border with Croatia, as tensions mounted between the neighboring countries over the migrant crisis.[8]

Demographics

As of 2022, the town was 93.8% Hungarian, 2.4% German, 2.1% Roma, 1.2% Croatian, and 0.8% of non-European origin. The population was 39.8% Roman Catholic, and 8.3% Reformed, and 14.6% nondenominational.[9]

References

1. Mandić, Živko (2005). "Hrvatska imena naseljenih mjesta u Madžarskoj" [Croatian Names of Inhabited Places in Hungary]. Folia onomastica croatica (14). Zavod za lingvistička istraživanja, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ISSN 1848-7858.
2. "Beremend, Hungary - Detailed weather forecast, long range monthly outlook and climate information". Weather Atlas. Yu Media Group. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
3. "Beremend - Travel, encounter and experience German heritage alongside the Danube". www.danube-places.eu. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
4. "Feked - Stifolder_tortenet.pdf" (PDF). feked.hu.
5. "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
6. "Beremend Climate, Weather By Month, Average Temperature (Hungary) - Weather Spark". weatherspark.com.
7. "Hungary approves new anti-migrant powers despite outcry". France 24. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
8. Elgot, Jessica (19 September 2015). "Refugee crisis: Backlog of people stokes tensions in the Balkans - as it happened". The Guardian.
9. "Magyarország helységnévtára". www.ksh.hu. Retrieved 2024-06-10.

External links

Media related to Beremend at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website in Hungarian, English, German and Croatian
• Street map (in Hungarian)