Kőröshegy is a village directly south of Balatonföldvár in Siófok District, Somogy County, Hungary.

The settlement is known in Hungary for being a holiday destination near to Lake Balaton attracting thousands of visitors yearly.

[3] According to the second also popular explanation the fact that the village is surrounded by hills could lead to the world körös which meant kör alakú (English: round).

[4] Kajetán Darnay states that the village was named after the Scythian king, Kőrös who ruled in the region.

[5] Nicolaus Olahus, the Archbishop of Esztergom, named the settlement Kereszthegy (English: Cross Mountain) in his writing from 1536.

Pope Innocent III gave a part of Somogy County (including Kőröshegy) the Benedictines, but ecclesiastically to the Archdiocese of Veszprém.

Under the rule of Béla IV, Master Albeus wrote a list of the residents of Kőröshegy, therefore they are all known by names today.

Sigismund awarded the whole village and the nearby Castle of Fehérkő to Miklós Pécznembéli Marczali and his brother.

The residents rebuilt the church in 1671 after the end of the Ottoman times when people settled back to Kőröshegy.

In 1688 György Széchenyi, the chief captain of Egervár and Pölöske, refers to its mansion which had at that time just a ground level.

As the army of the pro-Habsburg Josip Jelačić passed through the village the residents inveigled the hostile soldiers in their cellars, where they gave them wine, then they killed them.

[13] In 1862 there was a huge conflagration in Kőröshegy, when 43 houses were burnt down including the tower of the reformed church, the rectory and the apartment of the teacher and several others got damaged.