Dunaszerdahely

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

The former Tejedi cemetery

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Bordered by Bősi Road and Állomás Street, at the “base” of the Bősi overpass, lies the old, centuries-old cemetery of the (Kis)Tejed district. From the visitations, we only learn that the cross was built of stone by the Tejedi community. According to descriptions, there were seve... Read More

Adash Yisrael

Building, structure

During the “great controversy” of the 1920s, when Judaism was divided into two religious branches in Dunaszerdahely, the Ádász Yiszráel Prayer Association built a new church for itself in 1927 (at the end of the courtyard of a Jewish school). The synagogue, known as Ádász Yiszráe... Read More

The Great Church (synagogue)

Building, structure

By the end of the 1860s, the community's prayer house had become too small (the first one had since been demolished), so next to the great synagogue (across the street from it) one of the largest Orthodox synagogues in Hungary, the Great Church, was built. The monumental building... Read More

The White Castle

Building, structure

In Újfalu (in the former part of Dunaszerdahely, which was separated from Szerdahely by only one street, today's Fő Street), there stood the "late classicist-style, two-storey, two-axis building, closed with a tympanum, divided by square windows and pilasters, with an emphasized ... Read More

National flag with relics

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The National Flag Committee established in Hungary in 1925 set the goal of erecting National Flags throughout Hungary, evoking the historical country and symbolizing the unity of the nation. ; The monument was erected in Dunaszerdahely on the occasion of the first anniversary of ... Read More

Memorial plaque for the founding of the Csemads

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

On the 60th anniversary of the founding of the local Csemadok organization, the regional committee had it erected on the wall of the building where the organization's office is located. ; ; own ; ; Read More

The grave of Chief Notary István Bartosik

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The grave of István Bartosik, the chief notary of the city of Dunaszerdahely Read More