Szakony

Location

It is located in the south-western part of Győr-Moson-Sopron county, bordering Vas county, 100 km from the chief town of the county and 45 km from Sopron, and is oriented towards Vas county (Csepreg town 3 km, Kőszeg 17 km, Szombathely 25 km). The nearest railway connection is Újkér 10 km, Bük 8 km (on the Sopron-Szombathely railway line). It is easily accessible from Bük by the Volán bus service.
 

History
The village which is on the left bank of the Répce river has been inhabited since the Stone Age: remains dating back 4000 years have been unearthed. In 1959, 5 Bronze Age graves from the Gata culture were excavated and 3 more were later found. In Roman times, one of the outposts of the Amber Road was here.
The distinction is rare in medieval documents, with the first written mention of the name Szakony as 'terra Zakan' in 1225; it is part of the manor of Kőszeg and as such was a royal, then Garay, estate in the Middle Ages. It was subject to an Austrian pledge, and Ferdinand I donated it to the heroic Miklós Jurisics as a reward for his defence of Kőszeg. After the Jurisics family died out in 1576, Baron János Csóron, the then chief bailiff of Sopron County, leased the manor of Kőszeg and with it Szakony. Finally, in 1647, Szakony was returned from Austrian rule to Hungary, together with the other villages belonging to the Kőszeg manor.
At that time, Dénes Széchy bought the manor from the imperial house. The Széchy family died out at the end of the 17th century, and only descendants of the female line survived. The married-in Kéry and Senney families then transferred the Kőszeg manor to Prince Pál Esterházy, partly by exchange and partly by sale, so Szakony became an Esterházy estate from 1695. Between 1695 and 1747 it was leased by the Jesuit College of Buda under the Széchényi family.

In 1458, the inhabitants of Szakony ordered a chalice from an unknown jeweller in Sopron, but the master died in the process and the widow was in a dispute. The chapel of Kozma and Damján is mentioned in 1520, when the village was a branch of the church of Szentkirály. This church still existed in 1528, but it was probably destroyed during the siege of Kőszeg in 1532, and today only a mayor's name remains to commemorate the village. In 1591 Szakony was already listed as an independent Lutheran church, which survived until 1673.

Boundary wind
In the early 1700s, Lower and Upper Szakony were equally populous villages. In the second half of the 18th century Upperszakony advanced and developed into a more populous settlement than Lowerszakony. Both were among the richest settlements in the county in terms of material resources. Their prosperity was linked to the privilege granted to them by King Miksa I in 1575. This charter of privilege elevated the inhabitants of the two villages to the status of contractors: they could exchange their robots, landlord's ninths, land rents and donations in kind for cash. The benefits of the contractual status were so early that in the 17th and 18th centuries, the heyday of the lordship, the population of Szakony was always larger than that of the neighbouring villages with the same living space. This situation remained unbroken until 1767.
 At that time, in connection with Maria Theresa's gentleman's wages, the robot and other gentry services were introduced here. However, as the landlord did not have a lord's lodge here, he was unable to use the robots of the Sakonyi people locally. At the same time, the people of Sakony insisted on their acquired rights. In view of this, on 1 January 1768, both municipalities concluded a new agreement with the Esterházys to adapt the provisions of the Maria Theresa urbárium to their own circumstances.The high population density in the grain-growing areas due to the treaty status meant that the peasantry conquered all parts of the frontier as early as the 18th century. There was still some woodland, which was being cleared with great vigour, and the serfs continued to use the cleared land in return for a fair share of the land-clearing fee. The lordship's small tracts of land were also paid a cob as a rent. These censorship lands, which were owned by the lords but leased to the serfs, were located on the western edge of the Upper Saxony border in the forbidding dyke, while the fallow land and forests were spread along the Carrot, in the Vágás and Berek dyke. In the 17th and 18th centuries, vineyards were still cultivated on the Inner and Outer Hills, on the border towards Peresznye. The boundary of the commune was cut up into very small pieces before the demarcation. The treaty of 1768 was in force until 1804, when a new treaty was signed, but the landlord declared it invalid in 1807 and brought in the Maria Theresa's urbárium. The freedom from robbery and despotism was abolished, and from then on the inhabitants of Sakonyi performed the nationally accepted robbery. However much they considered their exclusion from the contractual status to be detrimental, the repeated lordship lawsuits to restore it did not bring the desired result, and the Szakonyi remained in a state of servitude until the abolition of the lordship.
György Hasza, József Molnár, József Resetesrics and József Szlávics from Szakony took part in the 1848-49 War of Independence as soldiers. The population of the village was engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry.
In World War I and II the village had 49 and 22 heroic deaths respectively. Soviet troops arrived on 29 March 1945. In the same year, 78 acres of the church's land and the Csepreg boundary were allotted to 41 land claimants. Already in 1949, the peasants had formed a reserve called "First 5-year plan". In spite of the allocations, both the tenantry and the individual farmers were strengthened. In 1959, the New Life and Forward Production Cooperatives were formed, which merged with the planters in 1961. As the cooperative grew stronger and the backyard became profitable, the village began to be rebuilt in the early 1960s. A culture house was built, and a doctor's surgery was located in it. In 1977, the sewerage system was started to be built. In the 1970s, the sports ground and the school building were extended.
The main source of livelihood is agricultural production in the form of individual farming. The Sopronhorpács ÁFÉSZ operates a mixed discount store in the municipality. There is no independent medical district in the municipality, health care is provided by the general practitioner service provided by the municipality of Zsira. For elderly residents who are only partially self-sufficient, the municipality provides a hot meal once a day as part of a social catering service, and a village bus, which was awarded a tender, provides additional social services to help those in need with transport.
 There is a community centre and sports facilities on the sports field and the bitumen handball court.
The school was a district school until 1998 (students from Répcevis, Zsira, Gyalóka attended) From 1998, it was a member school of the Csepreg primary school, with small pupils from Szakony in groups 1-3 and 2-4. From 2003, teaching ceased in Szakony, and the pupils were forced to attend schools in the surrounding area (Zsira Bük, Csepreg).
The settlement has healthy drinking water, sewage, electricity, gas, waste disposal, telephone, cable TV and internet services.
A sports club, a voluntary fire brigade association operate effectively in the village. The population has been steadily declining in recent years due to a trend of deaths persistently outstripping births and a negative migration balance, with the proportion of people over 60 years of age exceeding 30%. More than 10% of the population is of gypsy origin. The municipality is 2/3 Roman Catholic and 1/3 Evangelical.
The municipality covers an area of 13.5 km2 and has 441 inhabitants.
St Stephen's Church
St Stephen's Roman Catholic Church was originally a Baroque, later added, single-nave, single-towered building with a separated sanctuary. No medieval details have been excavated. The altarpiece is probably painted by Ferenc Stornó.
Main altarpiece : St Stephen offering his crown and kingdom to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The statues in the church date from the 18th century.
Which are : Pieta-Saint Fabian-Saint Joseph-Saint Anthony-Saint Teresa-Imre Saint.
The side altar depict the Virgin Mary. The organ dates from 1890.
It has two bells, the big bell 300kg and the small bell 50kg.
Both were cast in 1924 by Frigyes Seltenhofer
Its exterior, romantically trained.

Evangelical Church
The interior of the Evangelical Church is an elongated hall with 3-3 wooden columns, held up by 2 pairs of elbows, which run on 3 sides.
Furnishings: altar which is also a pulpit from 1893 picture Christ on the Mount of Olives by Rezső Steiner of Sopron.
 In 1893, a romantic-looking building with a single tower. In 1793 a new tower was added, in 1886 a third was added and a new tower was built.
 
Szakony accommodations:
Rózsakert Apartman
A welcoming family awaits you all year round with reasonable prices and quality accommodation!
Tel: 06 30 826-5890
info@rozsakertap.hu
Szakony, Béke u.17.
www.rozsakertap.hu
 
 
Szakony:
 
Kemencés Csárda
Their meals are prepared exclusively in a traditional wood-fired oven, which you can also help to prepare.
Tel: 06 30 348 6561
molnarbarnabas@pr.hu
Szakony, Fő u. 79
www.oregpitvar.hu