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18. August, 2020

Roman Catholic church in Döröske

A Romanesque church standing on the hilltop (Szentegyházhegy) of the village, in the old cemetery. The patron saint is Apostle St. James. It was built in the 13th century. A small church with brick walls, oriented to east, with semicircular sanctuary and a ridge turret.

18. August, 2020

Jewish cemetery in Nagysimonyi

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

Békássy-Bezerédj Castle in Zsennye

It was transformed from a medieval manor house in the 16th and 18th centuries, expanded repeatedly. It was last expanded in romantic style in 1867. Today it operates as artists’ house. Its extensive park was established in the 19th century and is now under nature protection. The talented poet Ferenc Békássy, who died young, is…

18. August, 2020

Balogh-Sarlay Castle in Csempeszkopács

A small Late Renaissance castle. It was built by Bertalan Balogh Csempeszházi in the second half of the 16th century. Its later owner, Ádám Béri Balog, a general of the Kuruc Army in the 18th century, who transformed it in Baroque style. It has been home to the Museum of Local and Industrial History and…

18. August, 2020

Church of St. Ana, Boreča

The late Gothic village church dates from 1521. The church's relatively high nave is preserved and polygonally shaped, the closed off presbytery is narrower and lower. The church was arched in the baroque style in 1739. It is built from bricks and stone, the belfry above the presbytery is wooden and covered with shingles. The…

18. August, 2020

The Church of the Holy Trinity, Odranci

The independent parish was established on October 1, 1944. In the spring of 1946, Janez Valentinčič was entrusted with the design of the church, and the congregation decided to build an octagonal church. The plans for the church were drawn up by Plečnik's pupil Valentinčič in 1946, but the building could only be started in…

18. August, 2020

The Church of the Ascension, Bogojina

The architect Jože Plečnik responded to the invitation of Franc Bajlec to prepare plans for the new church requested by the villagers of Bogojina and their parish priest, Ivan Baša. In his new architectural plan, he included the preserved gothic part of the church and added monumental volume with a stone column and flat wooden…

18. August, 2020

Murska Sobota Cathedral

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…

20. May, 2020

Miki (Nikolaj) Muster

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…

15. May, 2020

Objects from the graves of Soviet soldiers

In the spring of 1945, four divisions of the Red Army moved through Prekmurje. The first troops came to Prekmurje on 1st of April and, together with the soldiers of Prekmurske čete, freed Murska Sobota and established a military base. On the 4th of April, they freed Lendava. In the battle with the Germans by…

15. May, 2020

Pomurje Health Collection – Pharmacy

In Beltinci Castle, the exhibition, “The Pharmacy Collection of the Pomurje Museum”, can be found. The collection contains the equipment of the former Bölcs pharmacy in Murska Sobota, from between 1892-1950, and is comprised of the furniture from the pharmacy's sales section, containers, documents, and other equipment. The equipment of the premises for the preparation…

15. May, 2020

Figurine

Hand thrown clay figurine from well-refined reddish, light-brown terracotta, that is chipped on top. The back of the figurine is also broken off, as in split in half along its entire length. The figurine has been decorated using the incision technique. The front and the side are adorned with several deeper, slanted incisions, two of…