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18. August, 2020
The etching shows a richly clothed statue of the Merciful Mother of Turnišče with baby Jesus. On a twisted stripe is writings in Latin, translated as: Blessed Virgin Mary is worshipped in Turnišče near the River Mura in the Zagreb Diocese in the county of the Counts of Csáky. In the lower part behind the…
30. April, 2020
The album was dedicated to the memory of by Mrs. Kálmán Horváth, Countess Geraldine Niczky, to commemorate the inauguration of the flag by the 11th Royal Border Army Battallion’s officers and staff. Since 1938, border guarding duties were usually carried out by Border Army units. The album was made by Erzsébet Derezsán, a craftswoman from…
4. March, 2020
A well carved out of a log. It got from Gersekarát to Savaria Museum in 1969.
30. April, 2020
The album was dedicated to the memory of by Mrs. Kálmán Horváth, Countess Geraldine Niczky, to commemorate the inauguration of the flag by the 11th Royal Border Army Battallion’s officers and staff. Since 1938, border guarding duties in Hungary were usually carried out by Border Army units. The album was made by Erzsébet Derezsán, a…
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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.
21. 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.
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.
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21. February, 2020
Sándor Weöres, the poet spent his childhood in this house. In the year of his death (1989), a memorial room was created in the building. Since 2006, all rooms have exhibitions. His wife, the poetess Any Károlyi's oeuvre is also presented, as well as the couple’s furniture, books, and manuscripts. In the park next to…
18. August, 2020
The blacksmith workshop and the house next door were built for the blacksmith commissioned by the community. The community built this house near the river Zala so that the water for cooling the forged material be easily accessible. The first inhabitant of the house was blacksmith Antal Károlyi, while the last one, Mrs. Jenő Károlyi…
18. August, 2020
In the former Németkeresztes, János Goller and his associates established a foundation in 1760 for the erection and maintenance of a Trinity statue. On the pedestal has a German chronostichon inscription: “IHR ENGL VND MENSCHEN SINGT HEILIG, HEILIG” (YOU ANGELS AND PEOPLE, SING THIS: HOLY, HOLY). From this it can be derived that it was…
18. August, 2020
The brick church is oriented to east, of medieval origin, dating back to around 1200. It was rebuilt between 1751 and 1772-1780 in Baroque style. It was repeatedly reconstructed in 1832 and then in 1854/55.
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20. February, 2020
The legend of Ostffy Miklós in the Scythe House is about a local landlord who stuck to his Protestant faith during the Counter-Reformation. Ostffy's castle was destroyed by the Austrian emperor's troops. He escaped but was later captured. According to the legend, he was locked in the scythe house in Vienna, where scythes cut up…
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.
10. February, 2020
Melinci is today synonymous with brick making. From the year 1992 , TD Brod presents this activity at the Brick-making Days, especially the brick-making and brick-firing. There is also an outdoor brick wall for touristic purposes, where visitors can familiarize themselves with the craft. Of the 244 houses, 111 are built of homemade bricks or…
18. August, 2020
The Časar water mill in Berkovci ceased working in 1968 and, since 2000, it has become a museum, registered as Immobile Cultural Heritage, nr. EŠD 9272. It is a two-storeyed wooden mill structure, built in 1930. In 1946, the water wheel was replaced by a Francis turbine, the additional power came from a piston engine,…
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3. March, 2020
He was born in Orfalu, and learned the pottery craft in Magyarszombatfa. He was apprentice in Zalaegerszeg, Sümeg and Szentgotthárd. He lived and worked in Kétvölgy (Permise) since 1940. From the 1970s he was the only Slovenian potter in Hungary. His works have been exhibited several times in Hungary and Slovenia. In 1984 he was…
3. March, 2020
The priest-poet was born in Szőce, but spent his childhood in Rábagyarmat. He graduated from high school in Szombathely, and attended the seminary of Veszprém and Pécs. He served in various parishes as chaplain in Transdanubia. In the first half of the 1930s he was a religion teacher in the schools of Pécs, then a…
8. April, 2020
He wrote his book “A véres Don”, owing to which he was forced to live as a second-rate citizen until the change of regime. He wrote thousands of articles, published 8 books, was a member of the editorial board of the Vasi Szemle scientific journal, and editor of the Vasi Helytörténeti és Honismereti Közlemények. He…
18. August, 2020
Karel or Karol Šiftar was the Evangelical priest in Bodonci between 1895 and 1959. In 1921, he wrote the Krátki návuk vere evangeličanske. In the photograph from around 1900, he is seen with his wife, Ida.
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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)
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
A wedding song that was sung when the bride left her home.