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20. February, 2020
Bull-prototype, that is, an urn decorated with bull- heads on the shoulder and a tapered neck. The vessel is painted red, the rim and the tips of the horns are black. The pot was discovered in 1979 at the excavation of Mária Fekete, from the tumulus no. 2.
18. August, 2020
Photo of Turnišče with the Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua. Jože Kološa - Kološ (1920-1998) worked for the weekly newspaper Vestnik. The photo was taken in the center of the village of Turnišče, showing the Saint Anton Chapel of Padua and a handful of people on the street and next to the house on…
4. March, 2020
A well carved out of a log. It got from Gersekarát to Savaria Museum in 1969.
3. March, 2020
A fire-making tool, having the shape of a narrow axe, an oval hole, of forged iron.
Random selection of archive material
18. 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.
11. February, 2020
Ágoston Pável was a linguist, ethnographer and writer from the Prekmurje region. Born on August 23, 1886 in Cankova, he lived and worked in Szombathely, where he died on January 2, 1946. In 1956, on the 70th anniversary of his birth, the Prekmurje Cultural Association of Murska Sobota organized a commemorative ceremony in his native…
11. February, 2020
Between 1921 and 1934, colonies of settlers were established in the areas inhabited in majority by Hungarians around Lendava, where refugees from the coast and Istria, as well as Slovenian families from other parts of the Prekmurje region, were settled. Such colonies have been established in Petišovci, Benice, Pince-Marof, Mostje, Gyaberje, Kamovci and Dolga vas.…
Random selection of built cultural heritage
21. February, 2020
In the 1970s, excavations were carried out by Mária Károlyi at the Celtic settlement, which had entered the literature as the Fortress of Ostffyasszonyfa. The site is located in the floodplain of the Rába River, on the banks of the Lánka stream, on the top of a hill today largely covered by forest. The approximately…
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
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…
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…
Random selection of intellectual cultural heritage
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
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.
20. February, 2020
The Saint Cecilia Choir of the Ják Church was founded in 1994 by the students of the local elementary school. Today they continue to sing every Sunday at the Holy Mass in their church. They performed several times in the Szombathely Cathedral. They are often invited to Austria. They are regular performers of the László…
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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20. May, 2020
The illustrator, animator, sculptor and film director Miki (Nikolaj) Muster (Murska Sobota, 1925 – Ljubljana, 2018) is best known in Slovenia for his comic strip characters Zvitorepec, Trdonja and Lakotnik, whose adventures he published in the Slovenski poročevalec newspaper between 1952 and 1973. He was the author of several picture books for children, advertisements, a…
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…
8. April, 2020
Horticultural engineer Márton Németh, born in Nemesládony, was a distinguished person in the viticulture research in Pécs. His work brought him international fame. The collection of wine grape varieties created by Németh from 1952 was one of the largest and most valuable in the world. He was a committed supporter of vine breeding by clone…
15. May, 2020
Jožef Godina fought in Austro-Hungarian units in the First World War and, in 1918, he joined the ranks of General Maister. He collaborated in the efforts for the occupation of Prekmurje, where he was captured and sentenced to death, but managed to flee. In 1925, he finished his degree in theology and was a priest…
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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.