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31. March, 2020
Bulletin board, painted whiteboard. The bulletin board was made by Lajos Molnár, a local money collector and painter for the office of József Csaba, notary public in Csakánydoroszló. The village's announcements were posted on it.
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.
19. February, 2020
It is a post-Habán earthenware inside and outside glazed, with two handles, with stylized flowers of green-blue-yellow-brown-purple color on white background, with an inscription: “SM 1794”. One of the six post-Habán dated dishes, out of the valuable and large ceramic material from the Végh Collection. The Habáns (New Christians) were members of the religious group…
10. February, 2020
A worn, rectangular wooden box made of pine with a lid. The lid of the box was lockable with a key, but was later refurbished with an iron band (and padlock). With a metal handle on the lid. It was painted green on the outside. On the front there are the initials “R.Gy.” and underneath…
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11. February, 2020
In the past, harvest was the biggest and most anticipated event of the year, along with pig slaughter and church holidays. The grape harvest began after October 15, following the name day of Teresa (St. Teresa of Ávila). The grapes were pressed in a wooden press and then the grape juice was poured into a…
26. February, 2020
In 1942, the Vas County Superintendent of Schools ordered a general survey, according to which the heads of primary schools had to report the number of staff and students, their religious denomination, mother tongue, etc., as well as the legal, technical status of the building, and any measures deemed necessary. The ministry of education planned…
17. February, 2020
Ervin Batthyány, an aristocrat of Vas County who was sympathetic to the ideology of anarchism, made an attempt to implement socialist principles and founded a school at his own expense. The administration and the Catholic Church tried to block the initiative by all possible means. The school could only operate for a few years.
11. February, 2020
In Bogojina, in 1925, the construction of a new church began based on the plans of the architect Jože Plečnik. The original plan was to demolish the 14th-century old church because it proved too small for the congregation. Plečnik designed a new church, which he later modified, thus making the old church part of the…
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30. April, 2020
In the spring of 1915, the builders of one of the largest prison camps of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Ostffyasszonyfa camp, were housed in a temporary camp near Kissitke. There were about a thousand Russian and Serbian prisoners of war on June 17, 1915 – in order to prevent the epidemic outbreaks and to provide…
11. February, 2020
The cross of the village is in front of a house in Dolnja Bistrica (next to house no. 38) with the following inscription: "Praised be our Jesus Christ. To commemorate Jesus' suffering, the cross was erected by Ifko Urša in 1887.” The cross was restored in 1989 by the Horvat family.
18. August, 2020
The present-day church was built between 1910 and 1912 following the plans of the architect László Takáts from Murska Sobota. The gothic church from the 14th century had already been demolished, with only the gothic presbytery and belfry remaining, the latter was elevated during the building of the new church. The new church is a…
18. August, 2020
This is the cemetery was the final resting place for the Jewish inhabitants of Lendava and the surrounding villages. In the cemetery of the Jewish inhabitants of Lendava, the tombstones are facing Jerusalem, as required. The Jewish cemetery is surrounded by a stone fence. The Jewish cemetery in Lendava was divided into three parts, the…
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20. February, 2020
Lajos Kuntár’s monograph about his native village has three parts. The “first book” contains the author's journalistic writings with biographical aspects. The “second book” is nearly 150 pages long. Referring to archival sources, he describes the history of the settlement from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, describing social and economic…
20. February, 2020
“Devils will take you like Turks took away Balázs Pap!” Historical sources also support oral tradition, for, in the 17th century, the Turks indeed carried off a person named Balázs Pap from Szomoróc.
20. February, 2020
The first play in the village was performed on September 26, 1920, during the firefighter's flag-celebration ceremony. From the 1930s, two young teachers, Jenő Musits and Ernő Nagy, were the organizers of the artistic lectures, along with the local chaplains. Between 1940 and 1945, the plays were organized by the Levente Association (military pre-training for…
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.
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18. August, 2020
He studied in Kőszeg and Szombathely, in 1811 he was ordained a priest. Between 1816 and 1829 he was a parish priest in Alsószölnök, and from 1829 until his death in Felsőszölnök. He is buried there. The monograph and etiquette written by him also contains a lot of ethnographic data on Slovenes living between the…
30. April, 2020
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…
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…
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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
A wedding song that was sung when the bride left her home.
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)