Izmény / Izmeny, Hungary (Official)

Ismin, Hungary (German) 
Ismy (Hungarian)

Tolna County

This is one of the early Hessian settlements in the Tolna with the first colonists arriving in the early 1720s after leaving Mucsi where they first settled among Roman Catholic settlers from the Bishopric of Fulda. Most of the earliest references to families living and settling here can be found in the Lutheran Church Records in Kismányok as well as in some other neighbouring congregations. In 1773 the congregation was successful in obtaining permission to have Levite Lehrer in the village, who worked in conjunction with the pastor in Kismányok and at which time he began the baptismal record. It was only after 1784 when the congregation was legally constituted under the Edict of Toleration that a pastor was called and a marriage and death registry were begun. In the baptismal registry there are references to families living in Kalaznó, Mucsfa, Bonyhád, Rác Kozar, Györe, Majós, Hidas, Szekszárd, Keszö Hidegkút, Tófü, Máza and Váralja.

There was also intermarriage with families living in Bikal, Zsibrik, Hidas, Murga, Mekényes, Majós, Szárázd, Rác Kozar, Varsád, Bonyhád, Kalaznó, Györe, Bátaapáti, Tófü, Kistormás, Apár, Mucsfa, Kismányok, Kéty, Nagy Ág, Máza, Alsónána, Dalmand, Gerényes, Váralja, Kaposszekcsö, Tarrós, Csikostöttös, Tékes, Nagy Hájmas, Lengyel and Szabádi.

by Henry A. Fischer

• Lookups Guide: Rose Mary Keller Hughes - Evangelische Familienbuch by Georg Müller 

• Lookups Guide: Henry Fischer - Izmény (Evangelical Lutheran) 1773-1895 (Also includes: Maza, Györe) Church Record Transcriptions 

• Lookups Guide: Henry Fischer - Kismányok (Evangelical Lutheran) 1728-1895 (Also includes: Majos, Hidas, Izmény, Mucsfa, Bataápati, Bonyhád, Tófü, Mekényes, Morágy, Varálja) Church Record Transcriptions 

• Lookups Guide: Henry Fischer - Mucsfa, Tolna Co. (Evangelical Lutheran) 1742-1895 (Also includes: Mekényes, Izmény, Kis Vejke, Apar, Dalmand) Church Record Transcriptions 

• IZMÉNY, Tolna, “Izmény, eine ehemalige deutsche Gemeinde in der Tolnau” by Georg Müller. ISBN: 9632026314. (Izmény, eine ehemalig deutsche Gemeinde in der Tolnau und Familienbuch der evangelischen Gemeinde) Order: gmuller@staticad.hu 

• Book One of “A Former German Community in the Tolna:  Contributions to Its Village History” by Georg Müller of  Pécs, 2002; translated by Henry Fischer: www.swabiantrek.com/?page_id=24 

• Izmény | Izmeny (Part Two) | Izmeny (Part Three) | Izmeny (Part Four) | Izmeny (Part Five) 

Last updated: 09/10/2026