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11. February, 2020
The portrait depicts Countess Maria Luiza/Ludovika (1874-1949). In 1898 she married Count Pál Szapáry, who was governor of Rijeka between 1905 and 1906. From the end of the 17th century the Hungarian noble family Szapáry owned the castle in Murska Sobota. Marija Ludovica Stanislawa Przezdziecka Countess, a young woman in a pink dress with a…
18. August, 2020
The Nedelica Society for Cultural Traditions and Objects (Društvo za ohranjanje kulturnozgodovinskih izročil in predmetov ) was founded in 2008. Collector Boris Kučko started collecting wine-related items as early as 1994. Today, the ethnographic, art history and historical collection contains more than 10,000 pieces. The collection goals are clear: to preserve the heritage of the…
26. February, 2020
Cabinet strips for four shelves. Arranged in a specific order, with texts praising the housewife. Cabinet strips and other home textiles began to spread with the appearance of the “clean room” from the 1930s. The inscriptions: 5. “The cabinet is a mirror that shows” 6. “What is the diligence of the housewife” 7. “Work and…
19. February, 2020
A bulging jug with one handle and narrow lip, unglazed both outside and inside. Scratched ornament: four wavy lines between seven circling lines. Inscription with year. The jugs were made in large quantities by the jug-makers. Only the individual pieces had a year or an inscription. According to its size and the approximately 10 l…
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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.
11. February, 2020
Turnišče had a special rank for centuries, as it was given market town privileges. Numerous documents have been retained by which Turnišče could prove repeatedly their market town privileges. On November 23, 1934, the community committee decided to end the settlement's rank as a market town. The reason for their proposal was that the inhabitants…
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.
19. 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.
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18. August, 2020
A statue of the Immaculate Conception in the church garden. It has a prismatic, Gothic-style base. The bottom is square-shaped with wedge-shaped beveled corners. In the intermediate field is a blind tracery, above it an embossed ornamental element of the base, followed by an abacus profiled on bottom, otherwise smooth. This is where the statue…
21. February, 2020
The St. Michael's Roman Catholic church was built in the 13th century. It was used by the Lutherans in the 17th century, and by the Catholic congregation starting from 1673. The Gothic style was replaced by the Baroque in the 18th century. Its tower is above the entrance. Between 2011 and 2013, the altar, pulpit,…
24. March, 2020
The building was built by Mihály Schilson, and was owned by Counts Zichy, Festetics and Károlyi, among others. It was built in 1723. The U-shaped, freestanding, single-story Baroque-style building has an entrance with a mansard roof featuring two composite-sectioned columnar portals that on the first floor hold an iron-lined balustrade. On the ground floor there…
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…
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18. August, 2020
Remenke or remenice are decorated Easter eggs. The widely known traditional technique of egg decoration called batik (with wax and paint) is characteristic for Ravensko and Dólinsko. The basis for decoration is blown eggs. Remenke are made and exhibited during the Easter holidays, and as souvenirs for tourists throughout the year. The batik technique started…
18. August, 2020
The Časar water mill in Berkovci ceased working in 1968 and, since 2000, it has become a museum, registered as Immobile Cultural Heritage, nr. EŠD 9272. It is a two-storeyed wooden mill structure, built in 1930. In 1946, the water wheel was replaced by a Francis turbine, the additional power came from a piston engine,…
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…
10. February, 2020
Melinci is today synonymous with brick making. From the year 1992 , TD Brod presents this activity at the Brick-making Days, especially the brick-making and brick-firing. There is also an outdoor brick wall for touristic purposes, where visitors can familiarize themselves with the craft. Of the 244 houses, 111 are built of homemade bricks or…
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21. July, 2020
He went to the Faludi Ferenc Reálgimnázium Secondary School, where he was the student of Ágoston Pável who also offered him accommodations. For one and a half years after graduation, he worked on his father's farm in Csönge. He graduated in philosophy and aesthetics, receiving his PhD in 1939. Moved to Budapest in 1943, but…
30. April, 2020
He was born in Ivánc, where his father was a teacher and clerk. He attended high school in Szombathely and Sopron, then studied at the Royal Academy of Philosophy in Bratislava. In 1790 he was ordained a priest. From 1791 to 1792 he served as a chaplain in Ivánc, at which time he met József…
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…
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…
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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.