Hanva

Igó Aladár Sculpture Park

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Everyone knew Aladár Igó in Gömör, but perhaps beyond Gömör as well. Many people visited him and enjoyed his delicious Paloc regional dialect. In recognition of his artistic work preserving the most beautiful Hungarian folk traditions, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Or... Read More

Memorial plaque of the galley slave of Hanva by István Beregszászi

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

"Blessed is the memory of the righteous" is a memorial plaque in memory of István Beregszászi, a galley Arab from Hanva and a pastor (1674 – 1676), made in 1994. Read More

Memorial plaque for those displaced from Hanva

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The Hanva Reformed Church had it erected in memory of those evicted from Hanva on the 70th anniversary of the eviction, in 2017. Read More

Memorial plaque of Reverend Pastor János Szakall

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

Here, the word of God was preached by the pastor and deacon János Szakall. The Hanva parish men's choir and the Hanva parish congregation were erected in memory of him. Read More

Memorial plaque of poet and preacher Mihály Tompa

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

This is where Mihály Tompa, poet and preacher, preached his word from 1852 to 1868, made in 1994. Read More

Reformed Church in Hanva

Building, structure

The first surviving written sources mention the Hungarian village of Árpád-era origin in the 13th century. Its medieval church, the monastery of the Hanva clan, of which no trace remains today, stood on the Temple Hill. ; The church building erected on its site, which still stand... Read More

Hanva parish and memorial plaque

Building, structure

In the center of one of the most beautifully situated villages in the area, with a valuable building complex, stands the Reformed parsonage, which is made attractive to thousands by the spiritual radiance of Tompa Mihály. The core of the building is the old parsonage, the constru... Read More

The family tomb of Sándor Igó

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The Noble Igó family is a noble family with a coat of arms, whose nest is Hanva, where at the beginning of the 17th century the Hanvai Sándor family had serfs. Having freed themselves from the burdens of serfdom, they were granted nobility on November 22, 1628. The family's nobil... Read More

Monument to the victims of World War I and II

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

"The monument commemorates the heroes of Hanva who fell in World War I and World War II." Read More

Tomb of Mihály Tompa

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Mihály Tompa was a poet, a Calvinist minister, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was born in 1817 in nearby Rimaszombat, into an impoverished noble family. After a difficult, half-orphaned childhood, he attended the Pataki College with an iron will and in grea... Read More