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Nemeskajal Lutheran Church

Building, structure

The Lutheran church was built in 1898 and has retained its original neo-Gothic features to this day. The altar was made in 1898 in the pseudo-classicist style and has a painting on it: Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. The pulpit was made in the Art Nouveau style in 1914. The l... Read More

Headstone erected for the 300th anniversary of Rákóczi's War of Independence

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

A headstone was erected in 2003 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Rákóczi's War of Independence and Village Day. Read More

St. Imre Roman Catholic Church of Királyrévi

Building, structure

The church was built between 1834 and 1836 in the classicist style. It is a single-nave building with a straight closure, an attached sacristy and a tower built into the gabled main facade. The nave has three fields of Prussian barrel vaulting with inter-vault bands. The pseudo-G... Read More

Holy Trinity Column in Királyrév

Sacral small monument

On a pedestal in the shape of an upright block, on top of a cylindrical column, there is a sandstone statue of the Holy Trinity, in the front garden of the old village hall (it is not excluded that it was once a rectory), near the church. The Son and the Father are made of sandst... Read More

Vágfarkasd Reformed Church

Building, structure

The large village of Vágfarkasd is located southeast of Galánta on the right bank of the Vág River, in a flat area. It is an old settlement, already mentioned in the early 12th century as Farkas (Forcos). The village probably got its name from the fact that the Vág valley used to... Read More

Holy Trinity Statue in Pered

Sacral small monument

In front of the main facade of the Roman Catholic church stands the statue of the Holy Trinity placed on a column, which was erected by Gábor Somogyi in 1857. Read More

Memorial plaque to the victims of World War II in Királyrév

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The memorial plaque was placed on the wall of the funeral home, a few steps from the entrance to the village cemetery. Read More

The grave of World War I hero Lajos Iván

Cemeteries, tombstones, grave sites

Iván Lajos sacrificed his life for his Hungarian homeland at the age of 29. Read More

The grave of József Takács, director of the Hungarian department of the Voice of America

Cemeteries, tombstones, grave sites

József Takács (Vágfarkasd, July 7, 1929 – Washington, November 28, 2013) was a journalist, radio editor, and former director of the Hungarian department of the Voice of America radio station. ; He started high school in Érsekújvár. He and his parents were resettled to Hungary in ... Read More

The headstone of the Battle of King's Row

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The Battle of Királyrév is closely connected to the history of the Second Battle of Pered on June 21, 1849. This village was of strategic importance for the Hungarian army at the time, as the retreat route of the Hungarian army towards Seregakol led through this village. An equal... Read More