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by Istvan Molnar, 16 May 2001
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Bakonyjákó (in German Jaka) is a village in Veszprém County
in Hungary near to Town of Pápa (13 km south) in a beautiful
basin of the northern hills of the Bakony Mountains. The village
has got 697 inhabitants (1990 census), nearly all of them are
Hungarian. One of the Official Ethnic Minorities of Hungary has
got ethnic council in the village: Germans. Neighbouring
settlements are: Döbrönte (Dewrenten), Ganna (Ganna),
Farkasgyepű (Wirtshäusl), Németbánya (Deutschütten),
Szentgál, Bakonybél, Ugod, Homokbödöge and Nagytevel
(Deutschtewel) villages and Pápa town.
The first mention of the settlement is from 1351, all settlers of
the village were serves of the Castle of Döbrönte. At the time
of the Turkish wars the settlement was devastated in 1543. Jákó
was resettled with Germans in 1751 by the Vajda Family, the
landlord of the village. In 1910 Bakonyjákó was a village in
the Pápa district of Veszprém County. Number of its inhabitants
in 1910: 1.833; 1.515 (82,7%) German, 316 (17,2%) Hungarian
and 2 (0,1%) other by mother tongue, 1.780 (97,1%) Roman
Catholic, 32 (1,7%) Jew, 13 (0,7%) Lutheran and 8 (0,4%) other
by religion. After the WWII most of the Germans were deported to
Germany and Hungarians deported from Czechoslovakia settled to
the village. In 1982 the territory of the destroyed Iharkút
village was united with Bakonyjákó.
Symbols of the CoA:
The "Anjou lily" relates to the 14th century, when
Jákó as a tenure of the Himfy family became an important
settlement (the 14th century was the century of the Anjou kings -
King Charles I. and King Louis I the Great). The gold sheaf of
wheat relates to the agriculture, to the hard work, to the
diligence, to the persisting in insistance to the land. The three
green hills relate to the Bakony Mountains (before 1908 the name
of the village was only Jákó, from 1908 it is Bakonyjákó).
The three different trees relate to the nature, the forest and
the ethnic composition of the village (Hungarians, Germans
etc..). The gold double cross relates to the Hungarian Nation and
the Christianity. The wavy silver stripe relates to the brooks of
the Bakony. The gold Mill Wheel relates to the formerly six
water-mills of the settlement. The designer of the CoA and the
flag is Mr. Zsolt Mezei.
Istvan Molnar, 16 May 2001
by Istvan Molnar, 16 May 2001
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by Istvan Molnar, 16 May 2001
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