During the Rákóczi Rebellion (1704-1711) all settled villages were destroyed and Ladislaus Döry de Jóbaháza became the general agent for the resettlement in 1712. His agent in Germany was Franz Felbinger in Biberach. More than 14,000 came down on Danube ships. Disorganization and epidemics ("Hungarian disease") were reasons for escape from their landlords and death. In the Döry area around Tevel (in Tolna county), 130 families arrived in 1712 -- three years later only 43 were to be counted. When the settlers arrived with their boats ("Ulmer Schachtel") in the harbor of Tolna, agents of other lords attracted them to other villages, promising better settlement conditions. According to the conscriptions of 1720, Germans are found in Majos (1715), Závod (1718), Kismányok (1719), Varsád (1718-9), Nagyszékely (1720), Németmárok (1720), Dunaföldvár and Szulok. They were Swabians, Hessians (often Protestant), and from the bishopric "Stift" Fulda. Even Earl Mercy, the famous colonizer of Temesvár, became a private owner of a domain in Tolna County in 1722 and proceeded to reduce the number of state settler groups to the Banat by leading them via his agents in Vienna to his Högész area in Tolna County. New wars against the Turks destroyed the new villages in the Banat area in 1736.
