Ógyalla

Lord's Day tent in the churchyard

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The people of Vék used to regularly set up a tent for the Lord's Day in Ógyallá in the past. The informant was still in the courtyard of Uncle Mátyás Pista, in the churchyard, the tent was organized by engineer Anna Hegyi. (Zelenak Szilveszterné Rákász Erzsébet b. 1933, reported ... Read More

Flower-scattering during the Lord's Day procession

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On the left in the back is József Chalupeczky with glasses, and on the right is Erzsébet Asztalos, a religious teacher who taught religious education (for a short time?) at the Hungarian school in Ógyalla. Read More

Chickpeas

Song

Chickpeas, beans, lentils, ; black-eyed peas, ; don't go home at night because the goat will stab you. ; Pattantyú! ; ; The children spin in a circle. "Pattantyú!": they all squat down. Read More

Witch in the form of a cat

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Note: ; Original source: József Bakos: Superstitious stories of Mátyusföld. In: Ethnographia, 1947. 246. Read More

The witch's acquisition of knowledge

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The witch who corrupted the girl

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The old engineers who drive the horse-drawn carriages

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The Suicide and the Devils

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The built heritage of István Medgyaszay

Cultural heritage

István Medgyaszay was born in 1877 and is a renowned Hungarian architect. "... he attempted to synthesize Eastern and Western thinking ...." He gave a lecture on the artistic solution of reinforced concrete in 1908 in Vienna, the birthplace of Art Nouveau as a style (meaning with... Read More

The lower Ordódy mansion in Ógyalla-Bagota

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At the beginning of the 19th century, VI. Antal Ordódy built a house with a probably double division with an open pillared hall, which could be described as a spectacular peasant house. Around the middle of the 19th century, Vince Ordódy had the representative wing of the buildin... Read More