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The Kondé–Biró tombstone

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

In the public cemetery on Kisudvarnoki Street in Dunaszerdahely, not far from the priest's graves, we find the oldest grave in the public cemetery in Dunaszerdahely, and one of the most important in the history of our city, in a neglected and undignified condition. ; The inscript... Read More

Kossuth statue

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

Ármin Vámbéry describes in his book My Struggles when Lajos Kossuth gave a speech in front of a pub while traveling to the Bratislava parliament: ; "I had no further time to stay in Bratislava. I looked for a job in the countryside, accepted the offer of a poor Jewish villager fr... Read More

The grave of Bishop József Vázsonyi

Sacral small monument

Two former recognized figures of public life, József Haskó (1828–1901) and József Vázsonyi (1847–1923), Catholic parish priests, rest next to each other in the Dunaszerdahely public cemetery. ; ; Vázsonyi was also an outstanding personality of the city, so much so that he was awa... Read More

The grave of Bishop Ödön Janovits

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The grave of the former parish priest of Dunaszerdahely is located not far from the other two priest graves in the public cemetery. ; As one of the presidents of the Dunaszerdahely Catholic Boys' Association, he also worked a lot in public life. Among other things, he was the arc... Read More

The Pirk family tomb

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The grave of the old Pirk family from Szerdahely Read More

Tomb of Rabbi Yehuda Asad (Azod Judah)

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Rabbi Asad invited him to be the chief rabbi of the Szerdahely community in 1852. His yeshiva here became one of the most famous and sought-after. He dealt with almost all of the rabbinical sciences and had a wide range of knowledge. ; He was surrounded by legends even during his... Read More

The Szentfundus – the “Szerdahely Castle” – the “old cemetery”

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

In the former (Danube) Szerdahely, changing the early pagan customs, but certainly from the time of King Saint Ladislaus, the ancestors were buried around the church. The oldest Christian cemetery in the settlement was this cemetery surrounding the Church of Saint George. Documen... Read More

Chapel of the Passion of Our Lord

Building, structure

The mortuary chapel next to the Church of St. George is well known from Archbishop Batthyány's 1781 census. In 1781, the former observer saw a church surrounded by a brick wall and the old cemetery inside (i.e. the Szentfundus). Within the walls of the cemetery, he writes, there ... Read More

The old Catholic school

Building, structure

We find written evidence of the oldest school in the city as early as 1332 - at that time we also know its teacher (Iwan). Over time, the school's site was expanded by the Pálffy family, who had their small building rebuilt several times (it burned down, etc.), in the simple way ... Read More

The former Újfalu cemetery

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

In 1780, on the outskirts of Újfalu, which had grown together with it, in the Téglaház estate, on the Pálffy family estate (in the area of today's hotel and district office), a new cemetery was established for the closely connected settlements (Szerdahely, Újfalu, Pókatelek, etc.... Read More