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Helvécia
Country	Hungary
County	Bács-Kiskun
Area
• Total	56.47 km (21.80 sq mi)
Population
• Total	4,522
• Density	80.1/km (207/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6034
Area code	76

Helvécia is a large village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

History

Helvécia was founded in 1892 by Swiss-born teacher Heinrich Eduard Weber (Wéber Ede in Hungarian). After the great phylloxera epidemic that had destroyed much of the historical vineyard plantings in the 1870s, sandy soils of the Great Plains became much more valuable for grape cultivation than before. Helvécia was settled by 501 vineyard workers, most of them from the Balaton wine country. It gained independence of nearby Kecskemét in 1952.

Geography

It covers an area of 73.66 km (28 sq mi) and has a population of 4,522 people (2015). Most of its inhabitants work in agriculture. Approximately half of the population lives in hamlets. The rest is distributed between two centres approximately 3 km apart from each other: the older Helvécia-Ótelep, and the Szabó-Sándor-telep or Újtelep, originally a housing area for the former collective farm.

Twin towns – sister cities

Helvécia is twinned with:

• Cârța, Romania
• Sirnach, Switzerland
• Vršac, Serbia
• Zatín, Slovakia

Accident

In 1973, a severe level crossing accident took place here with 37 people at least killed.

References

1. Gazetteer of Hungary, 1st January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
2. "XXVI. Szüreti Mulatság pályázat". helvecia.hu (in Hungarian). Helvécia. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

46°50′N 19°37′E / 46.833°N 19.617°E / 46.833; 19.617

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City with county rights	Kecskemét (county seat)
Towns	Bácsalmás Baja Dunavecse Hajós Izsák Jánoshalma Kalocsa Kecel Kerekegyháza Kiskőrös Kiskunfélegyháza Kiskunhalas Kiskunmajsa Kunszentmiklós Lajosmizse Mélykút Solt Soltvadkert Szabadszállás Tiszakécske Tompa
Large villages	Bácsbokod Bugac Dunapataj Harta Lakitelek Sükösd Tiszaalpár
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