History of Lipót

Lipót is a romantic village which is located in the heart of  tausend-faced Szigetköz. Values of Lipót are peerless. Beside the closeness of Danube, natural beauties of land, thermal water which breaks up from the deep and rich in mineral matter, inhabitan of Lipót, identity and parochialism of local people are that makes Lipót attractive, amusing and special. The village is located in the middle of Szigetköz. Currently, about 782 inhabitants live in the country. The village has a full utility (water, sewer gas, telephone, cable TV), a Hungarian-English bilingual primary school with music education for 134 students. The kindergarten works with one group of 30 children. The village has a sports field, a handball sports hall, and hunting and fishing opportunities. 

The first written mention of Lipót can be found in the diploma archive of Héderváry family in 1977, then called Lypotfalwa. An independent village in the middle of Szigetköz, on the right bank of the Danube. It is located 15 km east of Mosonmagyaróvár and 24 km west of Győr. The area was donated to Lipoldt a citizen of Moson by IV. Béla in 1264. In 1377 e.g. it is mentioned as ’’Lypothfalva” as the property of Héderváry family. Due to the devastation of war and floods, people were repeatedly forced to flee to the islands of the Danube to rebuild their village after the disaster – perhaps in another, safer place. We know three places in the village of Lipót: the oldest village is preserved by the vineyard name ’’Village Island„ on  the other side of todays’s main branch, the second village was in the corner of today’s large backwater, near the Cat Island vineyard, the old church and houses remnants, while the third site is today’s village, rebuilt several times due to the devastation. 

Thus, today – a settlement that has been rebuilt many times in its history – awaits a large number of visitors, thanks to Lipót, who became famous far and wide for his thermal water after the first drillings in 1968, and for the baths installed there. 

It is worth mentioning the protected row if wild chestnut trees connecting Lipót with Darnózseli, as well as the 68- hectare Dead Danube bordering the village to the north, the nesting and habitat of waterfowl.

Walking through the village, we can admire some of the surviving beautiful relics of folk architecture, but we can also observe the old settlement stucture: the houses were built on small islands, in some places artificially crafted small hills, while the streets meander in the place of the old riverbeds – so it was possible to travel between the house sin ’’high water”.