Official Name: | Lengyeltóti |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Southern Transdanubia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Somogy |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Fonyód |
Subdivision Type4: | RC Diocese |
Subdivision Name4: | Kaposvár |
Area Total Km2: | 39.57 |
Population Total: | 2,920[1] |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | lengyeltóti |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 8693 |
Area Code: | (+36) 85 |
Pushpin Map: | Hungary |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Lengyeltóti |
Coordinates: | 46.6683°N 17.6361°W |
Blank Name: | Patron Saint |
Blank Info: | James, son of Zebedee |
Blank4 Name Sec1: | NUTS 3 code |
Blank4 Info Sec1: | HU232 |
Blank5 Name Sec2: | MP |
Blank5 Info Sec2: | József Attila Móring (KDNP) |
Lengyeltóti is a town in Somogy county, Hungary.
The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region.[2]
The town can be found south from Fonyód, along the highway to Somogyvár, the old seat of the county. The highway went from the Lake Balaton to the southern part of the country. The town sits on the top of a hill. Its name: Tóti meant Slavonic people in Hungarian, so probably the old village was populated partly by Slavonic people. First charters mention the village in 1116.
The Lengyeltóti Roman Catholic Church is an extraordinary heritage. In the 90s it was known only as a modern times church in eclectic style. During the renovation in 1989 it turned out that walls of an Árpád age church can be found in the southern part of the eclectic new church.
The archeological restoration revealed the 12th-century church with pair of western towers and three apses in the east side of the east–west nave. The architectural markers date the church back to the 1100 years. The village name had not been mentioned in the list of 1333 Roman Pope episcopal church tax collection, so it is probable that some of the orders at that time in Hungary owned the monastery church.
Lengyeltóti is twinned with: