Gyomaendrőd


Gyomaendrőd is a town in Békés county, Hungary.

Name

Gyoma is an old Hungarian male given name, while Endrőd means "belongs to Endre " or "property of Endre".

Geography

Gyomaendrőd is located in the Great Hungarian Plain upon the river Körös, southeast from Budapest. Highway 46, 443 and Budapest-Szolnok-Békéscsaba-Lökösháza high speed railway line also cross the town.

History

The smaller towns of Gyoma and Endrőd were united in 1982. Gyoma was first mentioned in 1332, while Endrőd in 1416. Medieval towns were ruined due to the Ottoman wars, native Hungarian population fled from the area. It was uninhabited until the early 18th century, when Calvinist Hungarians reestablished Gyoma. Calvinist church was built from 1791 to 1813. Gyoma was rebuilt by Roman Catholic Slovaks and Hungarians from Upper Hungary. Slovaks adopted Hungarian language and assimilated into the Hungarian majority by the 19th century. Lutheran Germans also settled in Gyoma in the early 19th century, their church was built in 1862. In the 20th century Gyomaendrőd became a resort town, the government granted town rights in 1989.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census the total population of Gyomaendrőd was 13,680, of whom there were 11,547 Hungarians, 613 Romani and 163 Germans by ethnicity. 15.6% did not declare their ethnicity, excluding these people Hungarians made up 100% of the total population. In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared a minority one along with Hungarian.
In 2011 there were 3,458 Roman Catholic, 1,483 Hungarian Reformed and 183 Lutheran in Gyomaendrőd. 4,644 people were irreligious and 170 Atheist, while 3,602 people did not declare their religion.

Notable people