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20. April, 2020
The postcard was made sometime in the early 20th century, as indicated by the official name of the town at that time. In the picture, to the left, there is the building of a Christian consumer cooperative formed in the early 1900s, with the large membership before the building. It was established on the initiative…
4. March, 2020
Made of 4-cm wide wood, with decorated edge, doweled in a cross shape. Three layers of plates of different sizes and shapes (mostly cone-shaped and rectangular) are glued to the wood. A wide frame is glued and nailed to the back of the frame.
4. March, 2020
Container made of straw and willow with a spiral technique for storing grain and legumes. Its broad belly ends in 7 cm-long neck. It stands on crossed slats, 23-23 cm in length.
31. March, 2020
The chest is made of wrought iron with a flap locking mechanism inside the lid. According to József Csaba, the donor, it is the product of the village blacksmith. It is believed to have been the guild box of the Weaver's Guild of Csákány. This is indicated by the fact that he kept the Master's…
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11. February, 2020
József Ozvatics from Berkovci and József Novák from Lončarovci decided to emigrate to America in 1904. Even an advance payment was sent to the English travel agency in Rotterdam. József Ozvatics wanted to get back the advance payment because he decided to emigrate to another country. The travel agency sent him a letter on the…
10. February, 2020
During the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy there were many mills on the River Mura. The ship mills were special, these floated on the river when it flooded. When the river flooded, the mill changed its position according to the course of the water. In 1888 there were 23 such mills in the districts of Bakovci, Krog, Tišina,…
11. February, 2020
The postcard of Kobilje was issued by the Hungarian authorities during World War II. The postcard shows four motifs: St. Martin's Church, the school, the parish and the mill at Kobilje Creek. An inscription next to the mill indicates that there was a bathing place as well.
19. February, 2020
The opera singer Mária Németh, born in Körmend, was a celebrated star of the interwar period, a member of the Vienna Staatsoper, regularly invited to the capital and for international guest appearances. She lived with her husband in Nemeskolta, where they ran an excellent model farm. The movie “Halló Budapest” was also shot in the…
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21. February, 2020
Built in the 13th century, the church is the oldest building in the village. It served as a fortress in the Middle Ages, surrounded by a still existing moat built in the 16th century. For a time it belonged to the Calvinists, and from 1730 it became a Catholic church again. Its interior walls are…
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
The Beltinci Castle stands in the middle of the extensive park. The village was mentioned as early as in 1322, as “Belethfalua”. Beltinci belonged to the Jura family as early as in the 13th century, but not for long, since after 1265, it became the property of the Haholdi landlords from Lendava, who ruled here…
18. August, 2020
The rotunda (round church) is one of the oldest architectural monuments of the Prekmurje from the middle of the 13th century, named after St. Nicholas. The settlement of Selo (Lak) was first mentioned in written sources in 1340 and 1365 as "seu valle Lak Sancti Nicolai (a Szent Miklós-völgyben)". Today, the rotunda is covered by…
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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…
10. February, 2020
At New Year's Eve, people affixed small pine trees (krispan) to the wells, decorated with colorful ribbons to provide good and fresh water throughout the year. This was the custom in the villages of Goričko too. As the housewife in Felsőszölnök/Gornji Senik put the decorated pine tree on the well of the house, she said:…
20. February, 2020
The description of Örség, e.g.: Its Nature, History, Its inhabitants, their habits and language habits, collected by György Nemes-Népi Zakál: In the Year of 1818th in Senyeháza. The manuscript was first published in 1985 and then in 2002. It contains geographic, historical and ethnographic data about the villages of Őrség.
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.
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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…
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…
14. May, 2020
Avgust Pavel was born in Cankova, where stands the house he was born in. Later, his family moved to Skakovci and from there to Potrno (Laafeld in Austria). Avgust finished (secondary) school in Szentgotthárd and Szombathely and went to study linguistics at the university in Budapest, where he earned his doctor's degree. He taught at…
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…
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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.