In 1946, most of the German-speaking population of Radling was expelled from Hungary and resettled in Germany (districts of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg and Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria). From Germany, many eventually emigrated to the USA, Canada, and Australia. Their homes back in Radling were taken over by ethnic-Hungarians resettled from Slovakia. The remaining ethnic-Germans in the village are organized into a „Deutsche Selbstverwaltung“, a self-governing body whose purpose is to preserve their language and folk culture. Several women from Radling are members of the „Deutscher Frauenchor“ German Ladies Chorus) in Raabfidisch.

In 1951, the area above the village (the „Bergen“) became an off-limits security zone, thereby trapping the parish and pilgrimage church of Szent Imre/St. Emmerich in a proverbial „no man’s land“, left to decay. In the late 1980’s an international effort to save the church was spearheaded by Elfriede Jaindl of Inzenhof and Gertrude Hölzel of Güssing, culminating in the consecration of the restored church by Bishops Stefan Lászlo of Eisenstadt and István Konkoly of Szombathely/Steinamanger in 1992.

Bobby Strauch, Allentown (USA)