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Turul Memorial Park

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The inhabitants of the village of Marcelháza celebrated together on August 24, 2014. A new public statue was inaugurated in the park in front of the village hall, which was renovated by local residents performing public works. The statue is a work of stonemason Tibor Bélai made o... Read More

Monument to the displaced and deported

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

On July 7, 2002, as part of the 8th Bridge Days, a monument was inaugurated in Marcelháza in honor of the deportees and those who were deported. Árpád Duka Zólyomi, vice-president of the MKP, József Halzl, president of the Rákóczi Association, and Dezső Édes addressed the gatheri... Read More

Taksonyfalva World War I Memorial

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The statue of the Hero Soldier, which was erected by the village population between the two world wars in memory of the war victims of World War I, has an “adventurous” history. The statue was completed in 1928, but the district office of the then Czechoslovak Republic did not al... Read More

Kuffner family mausoleum

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The main facade of the castle in the center of Diószeg faces the main street of the settlement. Behind it is a walled garden. The park, which enjoys a high degree of protection, was founded in the second half of the 1800s and acquired its current form at the beginning of the twen... Read More

Memorial cross

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

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Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Taksonyfalva

Building, structure

According to the Pray Codex, there was a chapel in the village at the end of the 13th century, and from 1307 a parish church functioned, to which Nyárasd also belonged. The small Romanesque chapel was expanded into a church in the Gothic style in the 14th century. As a result of ... Read More

Statue of Saint Donatus in Gutor

Sacral small monument

There is a bit of "confusion" among the saints named Donat, but if we pay attention to their depictions and attributes, we can easily distinguish them. ; Although there are about two dozen (!) saints named Donat, we can only find public depictions of two of them in Hungary. If he... Read More

Tomb of Charles Faller

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Károly Faller was a metallurgical engineer, college professor, president of the Selmecbánya Mining and Metallurgical Literature Support Association (1889–1892), and a founding member of the National Hungarian Mining and Metallurgical Association. He was born on May 17, 1857, in t... Read More

Illésházy Castle in Máriatölgyes

Building, structure

The former Illésházy Castle stands in the center of the city. The four-winged, multi-story, towered, simple Baroque building had 60 rooms and a chapel. ; The construction work of the castle was started in the 1740s by Count Illésházy Gáspár Illésházy (1593 –1648). After his death... Read More

Koháry-Coburg Castle in Szentantal

Building, structure

A Baroque castle building with a regular square floor plan, a large inner courtyard (with a decorative fountain in the middle), two-story (due to the terrain conditions, the western wing has two floors). In front of the castle stood a smaller fortified castle, which was already m... Read More