Pécsvárad (German: Petschwar; Croatian: Pečvar) is a town in Baranya County, southern Hungary.

Pécsvárad is on the southern slope of the Mecsek mountains, in particular the part called Kelet-Mecsek.

After the 1526 Battle of Mohács and subsequent Ottoman invasion, the abbey was destroyed.

In the Baranya the Hungarian inhabitants in the southwest, south and southeast of the province converted to Calvinism.

However, the parishes of Pécs, Pécsvárad and Zengővárkony were islands in a mainly Catholic area.

[6] The Turkish defeat in the 1683 Battle of Vienna spelled the end of the Ottoman rule of Hungary.

[7] After the reconquest of the Baranya, the Habsburg emperor took ownership of all the land for the state.

[9] As the Habsburg state wanted to secure a reliable income from the conquered territories, it sold leases to most of the land.

Jany) Provost of Csorna leased a whole lot of villages from the crown.

With help of the Jesuits and the army he succeeded in converting many Calvinists, among them the pastor of Pécsvárad.

[13] This success was mainly due to the fact that Giani combined religious and worldy authority.

The other reason was that the German artisan colonists would generate more income for Giani.

[13] After the end of the war in 1711, all that could be found of Giani's colonization attempt in 1713 were two German families in Pécsvárad, and one in Mecseknádasd.

During his (1711-1735) tenure, he brought in a new wave of German colonists to settle the area that belonged to the abbey.

Queen Maria Theresa donated the Lordship Pécsvárad to the University of Trnava (Tyrnau).

[22] The paper mill might have been in Hird, a neighbouring village that was part of the Lordship Pécsvárad.

[24] These mills were probably of the then popular type that consisted of an industrial mechanism driven by animals.

The complex was significantly restored in the early 21st century, making the foundations of the medieval structures visible.

Among the many town halls built at the time, it was kind of exceptional by having two small towers.

At the nearby defunct railroad station is a rail car that is a monument to the mass expulsion of German and Hungarian citizens from and to the area during the Soviet occupation.