Derenk, Abaúj One Place Study
Location: Jablonca, Abaúj-Torna, Hungary
Surnames/tags: Derenk Goral Spiš
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Derenk has been an extinct village in Hungary since 1943. It is now a memorial village in the middle of the Aggtelek National Park, also known as Aggteleki Nemzeti Park, in Northern Hungary, in the Aggtelek Karst region.
Magda N. has been doing a One Place Study of Derenk[1], which is an extinct village in Hungary, for many years. She has indexed the Derenk 1869 Hungarian census.[2] and traced many of the families that lived in Derenk. At the beginning of the 19th century, Polish settlers came to Szádvár, which was located in the county of Abaúj, Hungary, from the present-day settlements of Bukowina Tatrzańska, Białka Tatrzańska and Czarna Góra. "Its inhabitants from 1717 to 1943 (until the disappearance of the village) were mostly Spiš gorals and their descendants who moved here from the territory of present-day Poland[3]
Already in the first volume of Sziklay-Borovszky’s large monograph entitled "Counties and Cities of Hungary" (in Hungarian, "Magyarország vármegyéi és városai"), which was published in 1894, on page 308, they wrote : “Derenk stretches west from the winding road under Szádvár, all the way to the mountains, with 72 houses and 344 Hungarians as residents. The post [office] is Szilas, the telegraph is Torna." [4][5]
In Hungarian: "Derenk. A szádvár alatt kanyargó uttól nyugatra, egészen a hegyek közé beékelve huzúdik meg Derenk, 72 házzal és 344 magyar lakossal. Postája Szilas, távirója Torna."
"The Goral people, and especially their origins, are one of the small mysteries of Slovakia. They live mainly in the north of Slovakia, in 56 villages, most of them in Spiš and Orava, close to the Polish border. They live on both sides of the Slovak-Polish border and consider themselves either Poles or Slovaks"[6]
Szepes, Hungary
The people of Derenk were ethnically considered Polish in customs and traditions but they formerly lived in Szepes, Hungary. [7]
Szepes is the Hungarian name of the historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary officially called "Scepusium" before the late 19th century. It now lies in northeastern Slovakia, with a very small area laying in southeastern Poland. The current region is now called Spiš.
Spiš (in Slovak; in Latin: Scepusium) is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland. Spiš is an informal designation of the territory (like Burgundy in France), but it is also the name of one of the 21 official tourism regions of Slovakia. The region is not an administrative division in its own right, but between the late 11th century and 1918, it was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Derenk
After 1918, there was only one Polish-majority settlement in Hungary: Derenk on the Slovak border.
Maggie is currently working on an index of all the families from Derenk in Catholic records.[8]
She regularly updates records in a general One Place Study index which is available online. This includes records of emigrants to the United States and Canada from Derenk:
Derenk, Hungary One Place Study Index
If you have ancestors who lived in Derenk, let Magda know. She would be interested in collaborating with you!
If by a far chance, you have a Derenk, Hungary connection, use the Derenk category on your profiles, Derenk, Magyarország
Source
- ↑ NOTE: Because Derenk no longer exists as a registered village on maps, the location closest to it, Jablonca, was entered in the LOCATION field above as it was adjacent to Derenk. The Catholic church of Jablonca, Abaúj registered Derenk villagers since the beginning. Today, Derenk, technically, is geographically enclosed within Aggtelek National Park.
- ↑ Derenk: Ghost Town in Hungary
- ↑ http://www.derenk.hu/
- ↑ Borovszky Samu: Magyarország vármegyéi és városai. ABAUJ-TORNA VÁRMEGYE ÉS KASSA. ABAUJ-TORNA VÁRMEGYE KÖZSÉGEI.Derenk. Online at Arcanum
- ↑ Pg.308. Volume 1. Abaúj-Torna county and Košice. Hungary. By Sziklay-Borovszky.
- ↑ Goral Poles
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szepes_County
- ↑ About Derenk
- Magyarország vármegyéi és városai, Magyarország monografiája; a magyar korona országai történetének, földrajzi, képzömüvészeti, néprajzi, hadügyi és természeti visszonyainak, közmüvelödési és közgazdasági állapotának encziklopédiája. A Magyarország Vármegyei és Városai Központi Szerkesztöbizottsága közremuködésével szerkeszti Sziklay Jáños és Borovszky Samu. Authors:János Sziklay, Samu Borovszky. eBook, Hungarian, 1894. Publisher:Apoloó Irodalmi és Nyomdai Részvénytársaság, Budapest, 1894. Online at Arcanum.
- The Ruined Village of Derenk and its Surroundings Published June 12, 2012. Aggteleki Nemzeti Park Igazgatóság. info.anp[at]t-online[dot]hu.
- Derenk Cemetery Geocaching Website.
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