intercultural city
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Intercultural city
Hungarian and
Swabian folk customs
and sights in our
community
• In the 18th century the Serbian, later the catholic Germans have been colonysated to Szigetbecse from Bavarian and Styrian provinces.
• The village is inhabited by several nationalities, the largest numbers of them is the Swabian group.
• As a result, the Hungarian and Swabian folk traditions are also celebrate in our community.
German Ethnical Municipality
In 2002 was founded the German Ethnical Municipality, which aims are
• to set the German population,
• the integrity of architectural monuments,
• support for arts groups,
• preserving our heritage
• and assist the German education in the kindergarten and in the school.
German Nationality
Primary school
• In our township, in the nationality kindergarten and in the school is teaching many lessons in German language.
• Many of our students come from Swabian families, so there learn Hungarian and Swabian students together.
We order German poem contest in our school
German-related architectural
monuments in our township
St. Michael’s Church
• Germans settled in the village. They built a church to the Patron of the village, who has been Saint Michael.
• The inhabitants keep on his name day (29th of September) traditionally saint’s day.
Memorial tablet
• 1846-48 among a large part of the German population of 450 people displaced to Germany.
• At the anniversary of the evacuation of the town a pentangular frame had been placed to the wall of St. Michael's Church.
Swabian houses
Till the II. world war there lived almost only Germans in Szigetbecse. This is the memory of
the Swabian houses memories.
Village museum
This Swabian family house was
renovated. It becomes a village
museum. It shows, how the Swabian
settlers lived there.
Swabian folk costumes
The music friends chore sing Swabian songs.
Swabian folk traditions in Szigetbecse:
The Carnival tradition is German origin,
which is organized in every year in our
school and kindergarten. The kids dress up in
colorful costumes, the highlight of the day is: the night Carnival
ball.
Carnival
Easter egg running is the country’s unique tradition organized in Szigetbecse.
At the beginning of the event the bachelors goes from house to house and collected eggs, than they put them in one line in the
middle of the street.
The festival begins with the hymn, than the runners
dance to wind-band music. They trough eggs in the
high, sometimes among the lookers.
Easter egg running
Egg runner’s costume
They're clothes shows Hungarian colors. They
are wearing white trousers with white
shirts, hat decorated with red tape, and more
than 100 years old Swabian head kerchiefs.
The game
The bachelors dance on Swabian music.
They drink wine after each song.
After the „egg running” the runners and the visitors go together into the
Easter ball.
Egg tree
Children and adults come together in
Szigetbecse to decorate the Easter
eggs.
The decorated and stained eggs will be located in the trees branches in the yard of the cultural center
house.
Martinmas and Fairy-lamp paradeThe Martinmas in
Szigetbecse
– organized in November-
is a Swabian tradition too.
The event begins in the evening with the
pageant on the streets. Children
makes handmade paper especially for
this event.
After the pageant students shows the story about Saint Martin in the churchyard.
According to legend, a goose betrayed Martin, so on this day, can not missing the goose on the festive
table.
Village day
The square at the
Ballassi Lake is a
great scene of the
village day.
People can there
skate and play ice
hokey in winter.
On the village day children and adults, Hungarian and Swabian are enjoying themselves together.
THIS is our past and our future!