Rábahídvég is a village in Vas

Vas

Vas is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. The county is a part of the Centrope Project.-Geography:...

 county, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. As of 2001 it had 1053 inhabitants, and in 2008 it has 981. It is settled on the left coast of the River Rába

Rába

The Rába is a river in southeastern Austria and western Hungary and a right tributary of the Danube. Its source is in Austria, some kilometres east of Bruck an der Mur below Heubodenhöhe Hill. It flows through the Austrian states of Styria and Burgenland, and the Hungarian counties of Vas and...

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History

Reference to the village was first recorded in 1265, with the name of Hydwegh (end of the bridge). The name was given it because of a bridge on the Rába River. The villagers were the bridge guards. In the written sources the name of the village was Terra Hyduig (1280), Hydwegh (1283), Hyduig (1286) and Hydueg (1450).

This was the manor of the later Hídvégi-family. Andrew from the Herman tribe got this territory in 1280 and his descendants took upon its name.
In 1342 a chapel was built in the place where today's church now stands. In the Middle Ages the village also had a castle for tbe defence the bridge. In 1532 the Turks destroyed this castle. In 1605 there were two battles here between István Bocskai's army and the royal army.