Vaskút

Place in Bács-Kiskun, Hungary

46°07′00″N 18°59′00″E / 46.1167°N 18.9833°E / 46.1167; 18.9833Country

HungaryCountyBács-KiskunArea

• Total71.49 km² (27.60 sq mi)Population

(2015)

• Total3,327^[1] • Density46.5/km² (120/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

6521

Area code79

Location of Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary

Vaskút (German: Waschkut or Eisenbrunn, Croatian: Baškut or Vaškut) is a large village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Geography

It covers an area of 71.49 km². It has a population of 3327 people (2015).^[1]

Demographics

Before 1945, there was high share of Germans (Danube Swabians) in Vaskút's population, that spoke their own dialect of German language.
After the war, numerous Magyars (Szeklers from Bukovina and Csángós from Moldavia) were settled here.

Notable persons

Stefan Schoblocher (1937), writer
Fabijan Peštalić (1845–1909), Franciscan, important personality of national movement of the Danubian Croats
Grgur Peštalić (1755–1809), Franciscan, Croatian writer
Bede Lackner (1927–2020), Catholic priest and monk^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
^ Obituary, dignitymemorial.com, accessed 14 Nov 2020.