Heresznye Rasinja(in Croatian) | |
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Village | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Somogy county in Hungary | |
  Heresznye Location of Heresznye | |
| Coordinates:46°03′13″N17°16′35″E / 46.05362°N 17.27631°E /46.05362; 17.27631 | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| Region | Southern Transdanubia |
| County | Somogy |
| District | Barcs |
| RC Diocese | Kaposvár |
| Area | |
• Total | 9.9 km2 (3.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 203[1] |
| • Density | 21/km2 (53/sq mi) |
| Demonym | heresznyei |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 7587 |
| Area code | (+36) 82 |
| Patron saint | Saint Stephen of Hungary |
| NUTS 3 code | HU232 |
| MP | László Szászfalvi (KDNP) |
| Website | Heresznye Online |
Heresznye (Croatian:Rasinja) is a village inSomogy county,Hungary.
The name comes fromSlavic*Chrasňa<Chrastňa or*Chrasna<*Chrastna, see i.e.Chrastné (Slovakia), Chrastná (Czech Republic) orHrasno (Bosnia and Herzegovina).[2]Chrast (Proto-Slavicchvorstь): desne bush, deadwood.Chrastna: an area covered by "chrast".
It lies south ofNagyatád, near theRiver Drava, betweenVízvár andBolhó.
Heresznye was first mentioned in 1219 asHaraznia iuxta Dravam in official documents. Later, between 1332 and 1337 in thepapal tithe register it can be found with its own parish. In 1384 there were two villages with the name Heresznye. The first one,Egyházasheresnye belonged to theDiocese of Székesfehérvár. The second one,Felrétheresnye was owned by theBánfi family ofAlsólendva and later by theMarczali family, then theBáthori family in 1495. According to the 1536 tax registerFelsőheresznye belonged toBálint Török,Alsóheresznye toAndrás Báthori and the local priest. In 1550Felső-Heresznye is owned byFerenc Tahy,Bolhó-Heresznye byAndrás Báthori. In the tax register ofPannonhalma Abbey from 1660 mentioned the settlement under the suzerainty ofSzent-Györgyvár.György SzéchényiArchbishop of Kalocsa got the village fromLeopold I in 1677. During theTurkish occupation its population died or flew away.
In 1726 and in 1733 it was already uninhabited and belonged toZsigmond Széchényi. From 1750 it is again an independent village. TheSzéchényi family decided to settle Croats fromSlavonia to revive Heresznye.[3] There was a huge conflagration when two-thirds of the houses of Heresznye burnt down. At the beginning of the 20th centuryÖdön Solymossy was its owner. According to the 1910 census out of its 715 residents 87 were Hungarian and 628 Croat, furthermore 707 Roman Catholic and 6 Jew.
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