Only 52 villages survived the Ottoman rule, besides larger towns in Pest and Pilis County. The count Péter Zichy invited Catholic German families in 1723 to settle in the region to take the places of Calvinist Hungarian families whose number lessened considerably during Ottoman Hungary.

Mining of stone had a long-going tradition in Dunabogdány given that the mine first opened in 1860. Fine artistic works of stone, nice ornamented stone gates, windows, frames and tombstones are to be found in the village even nowadays. Tools and various objects the villagers had were often made of stone, e.g grape crushers, chests, drinking-troughs, and usually the bench in front of the house.

The vine disease filoxera put an end to viniculture that had been the main source of income among the peasantry in the region. Viniculture was replaced by mining of stone and pomology. Ships transported the produce to markets in Pest, Vienna and Pozsony (now Bratislava).

Unemployment peaked in the period of 1933-35, in consequence of which a lot of men travelled to Germany, especially to the Stuttgart region, to find work. Their families could only receive money transferred to them via Volksbank, therefore they had to open an account. After WWII, the German population, indifferent of their actual role in banking, was severely punished. In 1945-46, many of them, including women and children, were interned, and the property of almost all of them was confiscated.

At the same time, Hungarians from Upper Hungary were settled in the houses left behind by the German families. These families were treated and interned by the Czechoslovakian government just as atrociously as the Germans had been by the Hungarian government.

The social build up of the village changed dramatically. The Swabian dialect once spoken in the village is basically only spoken by the elderly. A German Minority Government operate in the village and it has a twin-town, Leutenbach, in Germany.

The material in the Dunabogdány Local History Collection was amassed by the end of the 1960s by the teacher Mrs. Antos Edit Schüminchen. The furnishing mirrors the lifestyle of the peasantryin the 19th century. The tools reflect on the work the villagers were involved in.

The material of the permanent exhibition consists of characteristic German clothing, wall-covers and pictures. The showing was located in the Cultural Center until 2008, when it moved to a building with four exhibition rooms awaiting the visitors.