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Statue in the park of Szarvassy Castle

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The statue in the park of the Szarvassy Castle depicts a peasant woman washing and dousing her child with water. The statue was made by Szarvassy's niece, Lili Kuzmik, and her Dutch-born sculptor husband. It was originally a fountain, around which a circular, raised pool was buil... Read More

Poorhouse

Building, structure

The chronosticon indicates the year 1719 as the year the poorhouse was built. So the benevolent count could have had it built instead of the "hospital" that was destroyed in the fire of 1710. Its artistic value is given by its gable, where groups of statues are placed in 3 niches... Read More

Resting place of mining engineer Dr. Rezső Mohi

Cemeteries, tombstones, grave sites

Mohi Rezső spent the better part of his professional career, thirty years, in the service of Tatabánya, where he was plant manager, then technical director, and later, from 1945. May. 27 - 1948. Apr. 30, after the nationalization of coal mining, he was the mining director of the ... Read More

Birth tree

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The Birth Tree, inaugurated in 2015, has a new "leaf" added every year. It contains the names of the children born in the previous calendar year. They, along with their parents, are greeted by the municipality at the memorial ceremony on March 15 as the young people of the future... Read More

Catholic cemetery stone cross

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The large cross of the cemetery was erected by the Catholic church members. Read More

Krupek House

Building, structure

The Renaissance-style house is called the Krupek House. The family was a Polish family from Kraków. The owners of the house had a separate carved pew in the Church of St. James opposite the house. ; Krupek Sebestyén bought the house in 1529, it is possible that he only added the ... Read More

Spillenberg House - Residence of Julianna Korponayné Géczy, the "White Lady of Levoča"

Building, structure

The house at number 45 is called Spillenberg House. It has been inhabited by doctors for several generations. A paper mill was established in Szepes-Tapolca by Sámuel Spillenberger in 1613. Julianna Korponayné Géczy, the "White Lady of Levoca", lived in this house. ; Many people ... Read More

Resting place of Gusztáv Görgey

Cemeteries, tombstones, grave sites

Levoca, 1816. Mar. 3. János Görgey, landowner, son of the Royal Hussar Major and Johanna Bosnyák, brother of Kornél Görgey, Lieutenant Colonel of the 1848 Hungarian Army. Hungarian, Evangelical. Graduated from the Tulln Military School. Retired as a first lieutenant (served in th... Read More

Resting place of Dr. Sándor Lorx

Cemeteries, tombstones, grave sites

Dr. Sándor Miklós Lorx (Ruszkini) (* 15 November 1839, Késmárk - † 30 October 1917, Levoča). ; County chief physician, first spa doctor of Tátrafüred, later chief physician of Szepes county. Treasurer of the Igló department of the MKE (Hungarian Carpathian Association) (1882). Lo... Read More

The grave of István Görgey and Malvin Prihradny

Cemeteries, tombstones, grave sites

István Görgey was born in Toporc on November 23, 1835, the son of Arnold Görgey (* July 12, 1797, Görgő - † February 27, 1878, Késmárk, Szepes etc.) and Eugénia Szirmay (* July 14, 1814, Gatály - † May 30, 1878, Schönwald). From his marriage to Malvin Prihradny (* 1840. VIII. 29.... Read More