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10. February, 2020
Pear-shaped tea mug with floral patterns and one handle. Such mugs were usually lent for house weddings. They served brandy tea in it the next morning.
4. March, 2020
Small wall-hanged cabinet made thin walnut plates. It has an upper storage compartment that opens at the top and a pull-out drawer at the bottom. The wood material is reddish on the outside, lightly oiled.
21. February, 2020
In the early 19th century, Alojz Eberl, an imperial tax officer, and a late romantic painter, moved with his family to Murska Sobota. He painted watercolors in his older age. Eberl's legacy forms the core of the 19th-century art history collection linked to the past of Murska Sobota and its surroundings. It comes from the…
18. August, 2020
Idealised image of Hungarian king, Ladislaus, in luxurious clothing with sceptre in his right hand and a simplified version of the Hungarian crown. Part of a pair with the sculpture of Saint Stephen. Sentimentality is emphasised with his left hand above his heart, his tilted head, and the look in his eyes. At that time,…
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3. 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
On Easter Monday 1924, new bells were consecrated at Pečarovci Parish, which were casted at the Anton Blazin Factory in Zagreb. The original bells were removed from the temple during World War I. At the dedication, Pastor Ivan Perša thanked the donors for their contributions. He highlighted the American donors Ivan Gomboc, Matjaš Rogan and…
3. 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
The Gornji Slaveči Lutheran parish was founded in 1918. Then the efforts to build a church began. The plans for the church were completed in 1926 by the architect Ivo Spinčič. In the following year, on June 29, 1927, the foundation stone was laid. With the help of foreign donors, on October 28, 1929 the…
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18. August, 2020
Built in honor of St. Margaret, a late-baroque church from 1795. It was rebuilt in the late 19th century in eclectic style. The interior painting is the work of Rezső Székely. The tower of the church rises from the entrance façade. The church has a Bohemian vault. Its main altar is early baroque, the work…
18. August, 2020
Belfries hold and protect the bell. The Reformed belfry in Pankasz stands at the highest point of the eastern part of the village. It was built in 1755. The year of construction of the four-column bell tower can be seen on the eastern buttress of the south-eastern column. Its bell was melted in the First…
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…
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…
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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
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…
3. March, 2020
The log-pulling at the end of the carnival is a fun mock marriage game where the log is dragged – by the “bride” and the “groom” as well as girls and boys dressed as best men and bridesmaids and dressed in costumes – to the center of the village. Slovenian customs in the Rába region…
20. February, 2020
The Fekete-tó is located at the junction of the settlements Orfalu, Farkasfa and Szalafő. It is not a lake filled with water but a peat bog, a swamp. Its origin is recorded in several versions. At Farkasfa, public lore has it, that church stood in its place. Once, a woman was late for the Christmas…
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3. March, 2020
Gáspár Nagy was born on May 4, 1949 in Bérbaltavár. 1976-80: editor of Móra Ferenc Publishing House, 1981-1985: secretary of the Hungarian Writers' Union, 1985 - secretary of the Bethlen Gábor Foundation, from 1988 was the editor of the Hitel journal, from 2004 he was the head of the cultural editorial office of the Magyar…
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…
21. July, 2020
In 1906 he moved with his family to Bozsok, into the Sibrik Castle. In 1912 he participated in organizing the Vas County Art History Exhibition in Szombathely, in the Savaria Museum. From 1917 to 1934 he was director general of the Museum of Applied Arts and lived in Budapest. In 1934 he retired to Bozsok…
19. May, 2020
Nikolaj Beer graduated from the Academy of Fine Art Ljubljana in 1973. Most of his artistic opus is dedicated to landscape painting of his home county and the village of Kükeč, and his figural representation is focused on Jedci (village marginals as a parables of transience). In his youth, he painted inscriptions on hearse carriages…
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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)
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)