After Ottoman Hungary, the village of Etyek was nearly completely devastated, that there were just a few workers left living in the village. Following the initiation of the Jesuit order, Catholic Germans were settled in the village. Independent of their origins, the Germans were called Swabians by the locals.

The first hard working Germans who were skilled farmers and vine growers arrived in 1920. A horrible plague epidemic in the period from 1738 to 1742, new settlers arrived again in Etyek. The village practically became a separate German habitat where the population was mostly involved in tilling. Beginning in the 1860s, viniculture became ever more significant in the village.

After WWII, 80% of Germans were deported from Etyek in the period from 5 to 15 March 1946. It meant 2336 people. Families were torn apart, mothers from their children, brothers from sisters were separated.

The German Society of Etyek was established in 1993. The objective of the society is to cultivate German traditions in the village and to collect German items. The previously collected material consisting mainly of Swabian furniture, were added a number of new items the society members discovered in the village. Then they set up the Village Room in the building they rent from the self-government. Many of those who were deported from Etyek to Germany preserved traditional items and were happy to send these back to be shown in the new Village Room.

Financed by a contest, the society had a roofed corn-floor set up where mostly agricultural tools and equipment are kept.