Vaskút

Vaskút Waschkut/Eisenbrunn
Vaskút Waschkut/Eisenbrunn Location of Vaskút
Coordinates: 46.1167°N 18.9833°E / 46.1167; 18.9833
Country	Hungary
County	Bács-Kiskun
Area
• Total	71.49 km^2 (27.60 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	3,327[1]
• Density	46.5/km^2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6521
Area code	79

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

• Magyars
• Germans
• Croats
• Bunjevci

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

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

46°07′N 18°59′E