The first inhabitants to the onetime swampy wetland arrived from Bezdán, Bácska. They were working on the earth moving of the ramparts along the Drava River. These ground men and their families were the first residents of the settlement. The manor provided sites for them and Newbezdan (Újbezdán) was built on the estates of Duke George Schaumburg-Lippe in 1865. 35 families had moved in from Bezdan by the end of the year 1864. The new inhabitants named the place Newbezdan (Novi Bezdan) which was joined to Beremend district notary governmentally.
Today it is the region’s most Hungarian inhabited village. Before the First Word War the Culture Office of Pécs employed ground men and workman even in Hódmezővásárhely and Transylvania for constructing railway, irrigation and truck farming irrigation systems. A lot of family with children settled here, they built a school in a couple of years as well. They bought a house in the centre of the village, at the place of today’s school and they charged András Kispál with teaching the children. The new school building was built in 1988; it was planned by Irén Pintér, an architect from the village. There is room for four classrooms, a staffroom and a kitchen in the modern building. A schoolyard and a grassy sports field belong to the school too. It was a Hungarian speaking institute originally but due to the proposal of the parents a Croatian department started a couple of years ago parallel with the Hungarian department.
After the First Word War the inhabitants of Newbezdan slowly saved up as much many that they could afford to build their Catholic church between 1933 and 1935 for the proposal of the teacher, Domokos Bellán. The memory of church-builder, cantor-teacher is kept by a memorial plaque at the entrance of the Catholic Church. Archangel Michael, the prince of the heavenly host, became the title of the divine house. The scorched church was rebuilt after 1997 with the support and contribution of István Kispál and Hubert. It was consecrated in November 2005.
