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21. February, 2020
It is made of willow wickers. The basket is rounded at the bottom, its side is slightly broadening, rounded at the opening. The upper part is braided from willow wickers split in half and is therefore white on the inside. It has two upright rounded handles. The bottom is reinforced with wire in the middle.…
21. April, 2020
The parlor table is part of the current furnishings of the Baroque salon of the Murska Sobota Prekmurje Museum. It is made of several types of wood (oak, rosewood and poplar veneer). The table top is decorated with four bouquets of flowers painted on porcelain. The porcelain insert on the wooden panel was hand painted.…
10. February, 2020
Five photos of Gornji Petrovci settlement in Goričko in the Prekmurje Region in the World War II. Inscription: Peterhegy. On the other side there is an inscription in Hungarian made with fountain pen, dated December 23, 1942. The postcard was sent from Gornji Petrovci to Torony in Hungary.
3. March, 2020
A homemade butter kneading table for eliminating the buttermilk from the churned butter. There are three curved slats that follow the curvature of the trough. The trough is a hollowed out piece of wood, the rolling-pin is heavily ribbed with handles at both ends. Part of the board is painted - apparently for secondary use.
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3. May, 2020
The 1828 census corresponds to today 's tax return form. The unit is the head of the taxpayer family. The list contains the number of peasant farms, the size of the cultivated area, the varieties of crops, the different ways and costs of production in each region.
11. February, 2020
The postcard shows a street in Puconci before 1927. The building on the left, in front of which local people are standing, is the Kuhar restaurant, which is still operating. It was opened in 1904 when the former “Pavlič” restaurant was renovated and expanded. Next to the restaurant was the Bukvič grocery. On the right…
5. May, 2020
The 1828 census corresponds to today 's tax return form. The unit is the head of the taxpayer family. The list contains the number of peasant farms, the size of the cultivated area, the varieties of crops, the different ways and costs of production in each region.
3. May, 2020
The 1828 census corresponds to today 's tax return form. The unit is the head of the taxpayer family. The list contains the number of peasant farms, the size of the cultivated area, the varieties of crops, the different ways and costs of production in each region.
Random selection of built cultural heritage
18. August, 2020
At the location of the meadow named Gomila, there are fourteen mounds, most of them are 12 to 15 m in diameter and 1.5 to 3 m in height. The largest is 30 m in diameter and 5 m in height. In there, two cremation graves were found; one of them was surrounded by a…
18. August, 2020
A two-story building with a tower, reminiscent of a chapel. Firefighters’ bell tower, with an obelisk with the mythical eagle, a monument dedicated to World War I heroes.
4. March, 2020
The building, address: Vönöck, Petőfi Sándor u 4, represented the oldest stratum of folk architecture in the Kemenes region. It was disassembled in 1983 and relocated in an open-air museum. The most archaic folk architectural monument of Kemenesalja can be seen today in the Vas County Open Air Museum. It is a two-apartment, building with…
18. August, 2020
A Romanesque church standing on the hilltop (Szentegyházhegy) of the village, in the old cemetery. The patron saint is Apostle St. James. It was built in the 13th century. A small church with brick walls, oriented to east, with semicircular sanctuary and a ridge turret.
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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…
21. February, 2020
The most widespread technique for painting Easter eggs was to “write” the raw egg with wax. The surface of the egg was divided into halves or quarters. The names of motifs on “written” eggs: “8 or 24 hearts”, “rope drum”, “leaf” and “rake”. The “rope drum” pattern is known in the Transdanubian region. Some say…
3. March, 2020
The log-pulling at the end of the carnival is a fun mock marriage game where the log is dragged – by the “bride” and the “groom” as well as girls and boys dressed as best men and bridesmaids and dressed in costumes – to the center of the village. Slovenian customs in the Rába region…
10. February, 2020
In Gančani, erecting May-pole is part of the rural heritage. Basically, it is a religious folk festivity. In Gančani, erection of May poles dates back to 1919, when the young set them up in honor of Virgin Mary for their lucky return from the First World War. The 18-year-olds gathered on the first Friday of…
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21. July, 2020
Hungarian poet, essayist, hussar. Descendant of old noble families. He studied and graduated in England. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, an exclusive club of the most prominent members of Cambridge University. His first poems were published in England. He wrote both in English and Hungarian: poetry, essay, study. At the outbreak of…
18. August, 2020
Builder of the Ják Monastery and Church. He was the Bailiff of Zala, was born in Vasvár (1215-1245). Ban of Slavonia (1224). We do not know the dates of his birth and death. When the church was consecrated in the spring of 1256, he was no longer living. Probably it his funeral that is depicted…
21. July, 2020
He studied in Sopron, Szombathely and Budapest. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1866. District administrator, Member of Parliament, he was the 6th Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Hungary (1875-1878) and then the 12th Prime Minister (1899-1903). From 1878 he developed his farm in Rátót into a model farm. His Simmenthal cattle…
3. March, 2020
Gáspár Nagy was born on May 4, 1949 in Bérbaltavár. 1976-80: editor of Móra Ferenc Publishing House, 1981-1985: secretary of the Hungarian Writers' Union, 1985 - secretary of the Bethlen Gábor Foundation, from 1988 was the editor of the Hitel journal, from 2004 he was the head of the cultural editorial office of the Magyar…
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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)
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.