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31. March, 2020
Simple, unglazed, small pottery mug without patterns. Patternless or barely patterned jugs were characteristic of the Őrség. The jug was purchased from Mrs. Lajos Orvá by Edit Szikszay at the “Galambos” street in Őriszentpéter.
21. April, 2020
The wooden box contains various silver and gold colored cardboard ornaments (crosses, letters, angel figures, palm figures, rim ornaments). Stuck inside the cover there is an invoice and a letter from the maker of the ornaments used on the baptism (PAX tvornica pogrebnih predmeta, vestačkog cveča, reklamnih kalendara i kartonaže). According to the letter, the…
3. March, 2020
Bowl of post-Hutterite character. From the last decades of the 18th century to the last quarter of the 19th century, potters in Felsőpéterfa made this type of pottery: not only pitchers, but also plates and bowls. White glazed bowl with two handles and yellow, green, purple decoration around its brim. Inside the bottom is a…
18. August, 2020
The Gyika family members are portrayed on this painting. On the left, the one-storey mansion is shown, separated from the park by a picturesque white-red painted fence. The family of Konstantin Emanuel (1780-1825), including his wife, Anastasia (neé Dadányi), and their children, consisted of ten members. They are wearing Biedermeier-style clothing and are painted under…
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30. March, 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 Lendava Football Club was founded on May 11, 1903. The first friendly match was played on August 3, 1913. The first stake match was in 1920 in Murska Sobota, where the players arrived by a horse-drawn carriage. In 1935, the club got a real football field, playing in the meadow opposite the umbrella factory.…
18. February, 2020
Until 1848, noble public estates, 'compossessoratus' in Latin, or gentry villages, functioned as a form of feudal joint ownership. Public estates are usually formed by a common written agreement. The judge was the head of the landowners' council. The council could pass judgment on minor misdemeanors, which could be appealed to the county at second…
11. February, 2020
In Gerlinci, the State Public Elementary School was opened on September 1, 1899. Previously, children from Gerlinci went to school in Fikšinci, Pertoci, Cankova and Klöch (Austria). The classes were first held at private houses. Designing the new school building began in 1907, and the school was officially opened on September 1, 1910. The new…
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11. February, 2020
The site is located on a flat area on a barely noticeable terrace, south of the Pince village, at the foot of Lendava Mountain. On the eastern side it extends to the Hungarian state border, in the west it is bordered by the Kis Creek. The site was discovered in 2004 and 2005 during the…
11. February, 2020
The Filovci potters’ village, an open-air museum, was officially established in 2005. Its history goes back much further, to the potters who made their pots here in the Pannonian region, who are not known by name, and those who have been recorded in the archives since the 18th century and to those who still live…
18. August, 2020
Kolta settlement’s ruined medieval church was demolished in 1633 and replaced by a new one. The new church is mentioned as early as in 1644. It may have been the same size as the present one, but it was located a few meters away. Following the Reformation, the church was used by the Lutherans. It…
3. March, 2020
The castle was rebuilt in 1890 by Kálmán Széll, the 12th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, based on the plans by Alajos Hauszmann, from a one-story manor house to an 18-room building. After World War II, the castle’s furnishings and library were stolen. The building housed a machine station, then a cultural center…
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21. February, 2020
At the beginning of the 20th century, Sándor Koltay, a teacher, urged to keep alive the custom of St. Gregory Procession on March 12. The origin of the custom goes back to the Middle Ages, when begging students roamed from house to house in the village. Starting from the 17th century, the custom also included…
20. February, 2020
Lajos Merics has been making painted Easter eggs for almost 40 years. Both her daughter and her son-in-law learned the craft. Since 1995, they participate in competitions. Katalin Horváthné Merics was given the title of egg painter folk artist. Blown eggs are decorated with scratched, engraved techniques. They also make pierced eggs. Mrs. Mersics Lajos…
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…
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…
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15. May, 2020
Ferdo Godina published his first stories in Novine. He was a law student, he collaborated with liberal societies, he was the editor of Mladi Prekmurec, he wrote for different newspapers and he published his prose. In 1941, he joined the Partisans and, from 1944, he was involved in organising the resistance in Prekmurje. After the…
29. April, 2020
Miklós Ostffy was present at the Bishop's Election Council on June 27, 1669. He welcomed the new bishop, István Szenczi Fekete, during his church-visiting roundtrip on the August 29, 1669, in Asszonyfa. Ostffy, in 1679, gave shelter in his castle to the persecuted Protestant bishop. In 1680 the castle was completely demolished by the Imperial…
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
He attended elementary school in his native village, was a high school student in Szombathely and graduated in mathematics and physics at the ELTE University. He was a professor in general physics at his alma mater since 1962. In his youth he wrote Hungarian poems, love poems for his later wife, and at the age…
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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
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
Stolnjek prestri se (Prtič pogrni se) / Wishing-tablecloth The Rába Region’s Slovenes’ version of the internationally known “Wishing-Table” tale . (ATU 563)