Lapáncsa

Lapáncsa (German: Lappantsch) is a village in Baranya county, Hungary, established by 18 German Settler Familys at 1760 from Bavaria, with the time Danube Swabians Familiys from other villages came to Lappantsch[1] firstly mentioned in 1349 as Gathwege, but destroyed after the Battle of Mohács. It has an area of 1.68 km2 and has a zipcode of 7775. The only Catholic church in the village, Katolikus Templom, is one of the main sights to see. Three rivers run through the village, one of them being the Karašica (Danube) River. Until the end of World War II, the Inhabitants was all Roman Catholic Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifulder, because the majority of there Ancestors once came at the 17th century and 18th century from Fulda (district).[2] Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, about the Potsdam Agreement.[3] Only a few Germans of Hungary live there, the majority today are the descentant of Hungarians from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange. They got the houses of the former Danube Swabians Inhabitants.