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31. March, 2020
Decorated, with plaster relief angel patterns, the relief is incomplete. The patterned ears on both sides of the vase are broken off. Below the angels there are circular leaf patterns. There is a braid pattern around the base. The mouth of the vase is broken off.
31. March, 2020
The 4-pronged wooden fork has 4 + 1 holes on the curved handle. It was collected by Kálmán Komjáthy from Mrs. Jenő Császár. The harvesting pitchfork was attached to the scythe so that the cut spikes were tilting in the same direction. There are many types of harvesting pitchforks. Some have a long handle like…
30. April, 2020
The stamp of Ják community, dated May 20, 1884, certifies that Mrs. Sándor Németh, born Julianna Németh, has been suffering from childbirth illness since May 1 of the current year and is therefore unable to meet the summons issued by the Royal Court.
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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17. 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.
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.
1. April, 2020
In the area returned in 1941 to Hungary, the Hungarian administration considered it important to support the institutions. The Battyándi kindergarten was transformed into a day-care center. The offer of István Szraka, a carpenter, master builder of Muraszombat, was accepted for masonry works while István Zselezen’s offer was accepted for furnitures. Based on the plans…
31. 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.
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21. February, 2020
A Roman Catholic church, formerly a Benedictine church. The church and the monastery were founded in 1214 by Márton Jáki Nagy, a rich nobleman. The church was completed in 1256 in Romanesque style with Gothic elements. In the 17th century, after a lightning damage, it was rebuilt by abbey Ferenc Folnay. In 1896-1904 it was…
18. August, 2020
Nagysimonyi was one of the centers of the Jewish community of Kemenes region in the 1700s. The Simonyi community was founded by 18 families who resettled from Germany. Their synagogue was built in the 19th century and had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1892. The unused building was demolished in 1953. Today their…
18. August, 2020
On the outskirts of the village of Sitke, on the Köves hillside surrounding the village, the chapel was built in 1871. Its builders were the owners of the village castle at that time, Sándor Felsőbüki Nagy and his wife, Teréz Weidgang. The chapel was consecrated on February 4, 1872. The small chapel is built in…
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…
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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…
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.
20. February, 2020
According to folk tradition, robbers had a castle at the Muszla Spring. The water surrounded a regular hill. They legend has it, that gold treasures were found, a seven-branched candlestick.
10. February, 2020
Pottery was the most common craft activity, with at least one potter living in almost every village. In the Prekmurje region, two groups of potters can be distinguished based on their decoration and method of baking: the potters of Filovci and Goričko. Those from Filovci were known for their “black baked” pots. The Pütra, was…
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19. May, 2020
Ladislav Danč graduated from the Academy of Fine Art Ljubljana in 1959. He returned to Prekmurje in 1967 and became a member of the group DHLM ((L. Danč, Š. Hauko, L. Logar, F. Mesarič), which established new, modern trends there. Danč belongs to the second generation of Academy graduate artists of Prekmurje. His opus contains…
18. August, 2020
Lajos Markovics was a Croatian parish priest, born in Felsőberkifalu in Vas County, a settlement formerly inhabited by Croatians. He was ordained a priest in Szombathely on June 16, 1935. He became a chaplain in Apátistvánfalva, where he served as parish priest until his death, and is buried there. In 1975 he became a titular…
15. May, 2020
Ivan Jerič was a priest and committed supporter of the Slovenian national interests. He fought in the 1. World War. He was actively involved with the movement of the annexation of Prekmurje to the Kingdom of SHS and fought alongside General Maister. He studied theology in Maribor. He was ordained a priest in 1924. He…
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…
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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)
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.
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)