14. May, 2020

Na Plesi archaeological site

In the Plese fallow, in Murska Sobota, a multi period archaeological site was found. The discovery unearthed debris from settlements from the Copper Age and, to a lesser degree, from the Bronze Age and the Modern Period. The biggest surprise was finding a burial site from the early Middle Ages (8th-10th century), with a new…
30. April, 2020

Weöres mansion in Nemescsó

It was built in 1638. In 1720 Charles III donated the estate in Nemescsó to Mihály Weöres III, a captain in the Kuruc army, the founder of the family's Lutheran branch in Vas County. We do not know the date of the construction of the one-storey, L-shaped Baroque mansion on the Weöres estate, its new…
30. April, 2020

Fountain dome, World War I memorial site in Sitke

In the spring of 1915, the builders of one of the largest prison camps of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Ostffyasszonyfa camp, were housed in a temporary camp near Kissitke. There were about a thousand Russian and Serbian prisoners of war on June 17, 1915 – in order to prevent the epidemic outbreaks and to provide…
30. April, 2020

Lutheran church of Križevci

One-nave church with a small polygonal presbytery and onion dome with a western bell tower. Following Joseph II's edict of tolerance in 1781 – this church is one of the first three Lutheran parishes established in 1783 in Slovenia. The first worship was held on October 30, 1785, with the following passage: “Render to Caesar…
6. April, 2020

Plague statue from Vassurány

The Vassurány plague is known by the locals as the “Vendel kíptye”. Plague statue: St. Rosalia lies in a symbolic cave below the figures of St. Sebastian and St. Roch. The role of the saints defending against plague has become insignificant as the disease ceased and is not even recognized by today's generations. The veneration…
24. March, 2020

Schilson (formerly Sigray) Castle from Vassurány

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…
4. March, 2020

A poor peasant homestead from Vönöck

The building, address: Vönöck, Petőfi Sándor u 4, represented the oldest stratum of folk architecture in the Kemenes region. It was disassembled in 1983 and relocated in an open-air museum. The most archaic folk architectural monument of Kemenesalja can be seen today in the Vas County Open Air Museum. It is a two-apartment, building with…
4. March, 2020

Painful Mother statue with Christ’s casket in Egervölgy

The Deposition statue is located on the top of the three-level statue. On the second level, there are two kneeling angels and two female figures at the column of the statue, the holy women going to the tomb of Jesus. At the very bottom there is Christ in the tomb with three angels floating above…
3. March, 2020

Roman Catholic Church of Nativity of Mary in Lócs

Lócs had a church as early as in the Middle Ages, but not in its present place, but in the old cemetery. The current church was built in 1734 and its tower was built in 1746. In 1901 the building was enlarged. The tower was given its present shape and neo-Roman façade between 1928 and…
3. March, 2020

Rotunda and residential tower in Nádasd

The 11th-century rotunda features the arched altar carved into the eastern wall, a gate to a residential tower on the north side, and an outer gate to the east. The 11th-century tombs in the bottom of the tower and the 13th-16th-century ones in the front of the altar are the burial places for the Nádasdy…
3. March, 2020

Kálmán Széll Castle in Rátót

The castle was rebuilt in 1890 by Kálmán Széll, the 12th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, based on the plans by Alajos Hauszmann, from a one-story manor house to an 18-room building. After World War II, the castle’s furnishings and library were stolen. The building housed a machine station, then a cultural center…
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