Kepéné Bihar Mária - Lendvai Kepe Zoltán: Domonkosfai értékőrzők (Lendva, 2012)

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Domonkosfa

Domonkosfa, Domanjševci in Slovenian, is one of the villages of the historical Őrség in the valley of the brook Kerca. Domonkosfa is bordered by Kapornak and Salovci in the north, Križevci in the west, Lončarovci and Ivanjševci in the south, Szerdahely (Središče) in the south-east and the part of the Hungarian village Kercaszomor named Szomoróc in the east. The Slovenian-Hungarian border is just a couple of hundred metres away. The current village came into being in 1889 when Bükalja merged into Domonkosfa. The main parts of the settlement are Főszer, Rétszer, Rákszer, Pestaszer, Skerlákszer, Császárszer, Magyarszer, Patakszer, Pusztaszer, Kalamárszer and Bükalja. As it is clear from the names above, the settlement is of a “szer” structure, i.e. it consists of groups of cottages built on hilltops. In the Árpád age, sentries lived in the land of today’s Domonkosfa. The settlement probably owes its name to Dominik of the Hahót clan, from whom the land was purchased in 1265 by the Jure family. In 1431 it is mentioned as Domonkusolcz. In the Middle Ages the village was the allodium of the Darabos, Prosznyák, Keserű, Hegyi, Rajky, Újváry and Tarródy families. Bükalja was acquired by the Batthyányi family in the mid-1500s. At the beginning of the 17th century the region paid levy to the Turks, first to Fehérvár and then to Kanizsa. In the age of Marie Therese 25 socagers lived there cultivating 257 cadastral acres of third-grade land and 64 acres of meadows. A school operated in the village as early as 1754. In the civilian age, in 1899 a civic reading circle was established for the settlers of Domonkosfa striving for education and in 1910 a voluntary firefighter society was set up. Water-mills used to run on the brook Kis-Kerka, of which the Cahuk and the

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