- Levél
Infobox Settlement
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = HUN
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
official_name = Levél
subdivision_type1=County
subdivision_name1=Győr-Moson-Sopron
area_total_km2=24.91
population_total=1713
population_as_of=2004
population_density_km2=68.76
postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code=9221
area_code=96
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latd=47.89373
longd=17.20048Levél is a village in
Győr-Moson-Sopron county,Hungary .Geography
Levél is in the northwest corner of
Hungary , along the M1 motorway, betweenMosonmagyaróvár andHegyeshalom . It was a passenger traffic and railway stopping-place. With a bicycle one can connect to the internationalbicycle road to Hegyeshalom andRajka frontier station.History
The village "Kalthostan" was first mentioned in
Germany in 1410. The first Hungarian name appears in a tax registration in 1532. The Turkish beslege depopulated the village in 1529.In 1570emperor Miksa the I. colonized here theWürttenberg Saxons. The French occupation in 1809 blame heavy burdens to thepopulation . In 1926 starts the big electrification of the village.The farmers planted fruit gardens and the corn production was prospering. In the second World War in consequence to the requisitions on German and the
Russia n soldiers people pillaged the village and they lifted cattles. After the war the greatest part of German populatiuon wasdeported . In the sixties seventies and eighties, the village started do develop again and this development continued in the nineties also.Population
(Demographic characteristics)
The permanent population in the last decades shows a very small expansion. 50-60% of the population is incapable of sustaining oneself from this 20% is the rate of unemployed.
Regarding school qualification: With
general school dispose 25%, workman 30%,secondary school qualification 22% and higher education qualification 6% of the population.Regarding employment: 49% of the population work in
industry , 6.5% inagriculture , 15% in commerce and catering trade unemployed rate in 5%. A great level goes to work to Mosonmagyaróvár. (1998)Infrastructure
The infrastructural provision of the village is good. Beside the building of the
water conduit system in 1997, the waste-pipe system development will 1997 started. The solid waste collection and the storage of this is solved. Thetelephone furnishing is 98% resolved. The village is disposed to cable-television system and monthly appears the localnewspaper .External links
* [http://www.terkepcentrum.hu/index.asp?go=map&tid=19239 Street map] hu icon
* http://www.level.hu/index.php?modul=menupontok&kod=95
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