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11. February, 2020
Baron Pál Szapáry (1753-1825) can be seen in the picture in ornate costume. He hides his left palm in the folds of his hussar uniform, and places his right palm on the globe. His dress is solemn: fur-lined, a gorgeous red hussar uniform, with a green belt. His wears a greyish-white wig, his looks straight…
15. May, 2020
At the site, Pod kotom–south, an urnfield site with 179 urn burials was found, one of the larger burial sites from that era in Europe. One of the most beautiful urns was found in the grave, marked 109, which was the burial site of a child, aged about five years. The urn was decorated, using…
21. April, 2020
The vase with the coat of arms of the Szapáry family can be seen at the Permanent Exhibition of Murska Sobota Prekmurje Museum. In 1783 Medici ordered a huge vase from the porcelain manufacture in Sèvres. It was then copied by other porcelain manufactures – it was representative, and served as ornaments, most often bearing…
2. March, 2020
Group photo with residents of Murska Sobota. It is the work of Jože Prahič, a photographer from Murska Sobota. The picture shows eight men and eight women. Among them are the parish priest Slepec, the cantor Franc Ruzsa and the Lutheran chaplain Štefan Kovač in of Murska Sobota.
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11. March, 2020
In 1942, the Vas County Superintendent of Schools ordered a general survey, according to which the heads of primary schools had to report the number of staff and students, their religious denomination, mother tongue, etc., as well as the legal, technical status of the building, and any measures deemed necessary. The ministry of education planned…
11. February, 2020
Knife-grinding was one of the old crafts of the Gypsies of the Prekmurje Region. The Prekmurje knife-grinders throughout the Prekmurje Region and Slovenia. They only returned to their homes every three or four months. The knife-grinder was usually accompanied by his wife. The husband grinded tools or repaired umbrellas, and his wife collected the items…
19. February, 2020
The use of the seals of the settlements was regulated by the Act XVIII of 1871 on the settlements governance. When the law was enacted, the sub-prefect offices collected all the old typariums and placed them for preservation in the county archives. On these seals the settlements displayed their old, almost forgotten symbols.
19. February, 2020
The use of the seals of the settlements was regulated by the Act XVIII of 1871 on the settlements governance. When the law was enacted, the sub-prefect offices collected all the old typariums and placed them for preservation in the county archives. On these seals the settlements displayed their old, almost forgotten symbols.
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18. August, 2020
The chapel of Felsőszölnök, named after St. John the Baptist is known from the 14th century (1377). We can read about the restoration of the church in the 1794 visitation report. In 1915 it consisted of a lower part and a taller part, surrounded by a wooden fence, its tower covered with shingles and the…
18. August, 2020
A small Late Renaissance castle. It was built by Bertalan Balogh Csempeszházi in the second half of the 16th century. Its later owner, Ádám Béri Balog, a general of the Kuruc Army in the 18th century, who transformed it in Baroque style. It has been home to the Museum of Local and Industrial History and…
11. February, 2020
Gornje njive is an archaeological site on the marshy side of the floodplain of the Kebele stream, on a flat but slightly elevated field, on the eastern slope of Lendava Mountain, 1 km from Dolga Vas. The site was explored between 1997 and 1998 (Gornje njive 1) and in 2004 during the construction of the…
18. August, 2020
Belfries hold and protect the bell. The Reformed belfry in Pankasz stands at the highest point of the eastern part of the village. It was built in 1755. The year of construction of the four-column bell tower can be seen on the eastern buttress of the south-eastern column. Its bell was melted in the First…
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20. February, 2020
The Saint Cecilia Choir of the Ják Church was founded in 1994 by the students of the local elementary school. Today they continue to sing every Sunday at the Holy Mass in their church. They performed several times in the Szombathely Cathedral. They are often invited to Austria. They are regular performers of the László…
20. February, 2020
The park guard of Rátót finds a gourd on the outskirts of the village. He doesn't know what it is. The wise elders of the village think that it is a dragon egg or foal egg. This is a village-mocking, folk genre. A humorous story about the ignorance of the villagers.
20. February, 2020
The Fekete-tó is located at the junction of the settlements Orfalu, Farkasfa and Szalafő. It is not a lake filled with water but a peat bog, a swamp. Its origin is recorded in several versions. At Farkasfa, public lore has it, that church stood in its place. Once, a woman was late for the Christmas…
3. March, 2020
The first Slovenian scholar of the Slovenes in Hungary, recorded phonetically the process of thrush-catching in Hungarian and in the Slovenian dialect of Apátistvánfalva. He documented thereby the typical phonetics, sentence structure and words of the local dialect in the 1940s.
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15. May, 2020
After finishing his theology studies in Szombathely in 1897 and his first mass in Tišina, he was chaplain in several parishes and a parish priest in Pečarovci. He retired in 1910 and moved to Črenšovci. Then began his fruitful political work, alongside his work as an editor and writer. He was the opinion leader of…
19. May, 2020
Feri Kühar attended the Technical School (Polytechnic) in Ljubljana. His teacher, France Kralj, academic painter and sculptor, brought the socio-peasant genre to sculpting and the first sculptor from Prekmurje followed his example. Images of peasant women, men and children in wood, terracotta, patinated plaster and, only rarely, in steel are his best works, but he…
10. February, 2020
György Zala was born as György Mayer on April 16, 1858, in a Roman Catholic family in Alsólendva. After graduation, he enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering and then a drawing school. He wanted to be a painter, but Adolf Huszár discouraged him and introduced him to the world of sculpture. In 1879 he was…
18. August, 2020
His poems capture the natural beauties of the Őrség, the fate of poor peasants, and the lyrical descriptions of peasant works (eg. Clothes Washers, Reapers, After harvest). His writings were published in rural daily newspapers and thin booklets. His omnibus edition was published in 1984 and 2018. Illustration: work of art from painter Zoltán Pongrácz,…
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3. March, 2020
Stolnjek prestri se (Prtič pogrni se) / Wishing-tablecloth The Rába Region’s Slovenes’ version of the internationally known “Wishing-Table” tale . (ATU 563)
3. March, 2020
A wedding song that was sung when the bride left her home.
11. February, 2020
They were singing this lullaby when the baby was rocked in a hutch or cradle. A variation of three words (heje, baba, bijja) gives the lyrics of the song. The lullaby was collected in 1972 by Antal Békefi.
3. March, 2020
Sojenice (Sojenice) / Fate fairies In the Slovenian Rába Region, fate fairies predict the fate of a child at the birth. Local version of an international motif. (ATU 934)