18. August, 2020

Calvary in Kenyeri

Countess Cziráky József and Borbála Barkóczy erected this Calvary on an artificial hill. When Count Cziráky married her she was not a noblewoman, and she made a promise of building the Calvary hoping for ennoblement in return. After being accepted in the Order of the Starry Cross, she built the Calvary in 1731. Sandstone was…
18. August, 2020

World War I memorial in Nagysimonyi

World War I memorial monuments were built under a 1917 law, at the time of Bethlen's Consolidation and according to the financial strength of the given settlement. In Nagysimonyi, the Civic Reading Circle and the Volunteer Fire Brigade raised the money in 1924 to build the monument. The consecration was held on July 4, 1926.…
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…
18. August, 2020

Jewish cemetery in Dolga Vas

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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