18. August, 2020

Beltinci – Castle

The Beltinci Castle stands in the middle of the extensive park. The village was mentioned as early as in 1322, as “Belethfalua”. Beltinci belonged to the Jura family as early as in the 13th century, but not for long, since after 1265, it became the property of the Haholdi landlords from Lendava, who ruled here…
18. August, 2020

St. Nicholas round church in Selo

The rotunda (round church) is one of the oldest architectural monuments of the Prekmurje from the middle of the 13th century, named after St. Nicholas. The settlement of Selo (Lak) was first mentioned in written sources in 1340 and 1365 as "seu valle Lak Sancti Nicolai (a Szent Miklós-völgyben)". Today, the rotunda is covered by…
18. August, 2020

St. Margaret’s Catholic church in Pornóapáti

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

Village house in Győrvár

The Győrvár Village House is an imposing organic architecture hallmarked by Imre Makovecz. It was designed by Dezső Ekler at that time a colleague and student of Makovecz (later awarded the Ybl, Prima and Hungarian Art Prize). The building was completed in 1992 by VASBER with considerable social involvement. The building houses the Village House…
18. August, 2020

Cák winery

The complex consisting of eight cellars of the Cák Winery has been open for the public since 1976. The cellars are located in the chestnut forest behind the village and according to the settlement structure of that time. They were primarily used for wine processing and wine storage. After the plague of phylloxera, the cellars…
18. August, 2020

Country house in Nagyrákos

The blacksmith workshop and the house next door were built for the blacksmith commissioned by the community. The community built this house near the river Zala so that the water for cooling the forged material be easily accessible. The first inhabitant of the house was blacksmith Antal Károlyi, while the last one, Mrs. Jenő Károlyi…
18. August, 2020

Lutheran church in Nemeskolta

Until the middle of the 18th century, the congregation of the Lutheran villages along Sorok Stream belonged to the articular church in Nemescsó. The Nemeskolta congregation became independent in the second half of the 18th century. Its first independent registry entry: November 9, 1783 Their church was completed a few years later, around 1786. The…
18. August, 2020

School in Pankasz

The change in building materials’ use in the villages of Őrség began in the late 1800s. Under the influence of Italian brick-burning migrant workers and Styrian craftsmen, brick houses began to appear. The school in Pankasz was one of the first brick buildings in the Őrség. It was built in 1885. Until then, the children…
18. August, 2020

Reformed belfry in Pankasz

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

The Szentgyörgyi-Horváth Castle

The Szentgyörgyi-Horváth baroque castle complex was built around 1780 and its designer is assumed to be Hefele Menyhért. The main building is a free-standing, two-leveled, rectangular layout structure. The middle three axes of the outer and garden façade form an avant-corps, decorated with lesenes, closed by a tympanum. On its long sides there is a…
18. August, 2020

Holy Trinity statue in Vaskeresztes

In the former Németkeresztes, János Goller and his associates established a foundation in 1760 for the erection and maintenance of a Trinity statue. On the pedestal has a German chronostichon inscription: “IHR ENGL VND MENSCHEN SINGT HEILIG, HEILIG” (YOU ANGELS AND PEOPLE, SING THIS: HOLY, HOLY). From this it can be derived that it was…
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