Ógyalla

The cultural heritage of Árpád Feszty

Cultural heritage

On December 21, 1856, Árpád Feszty, the later world-famous Hungarian painter, was born in a small three-room house as the fifth child of Szilveszter Rehrenbeck (later Feszty) and Jozefa Linzmayer. Szilveszter Feszty had a larger inn built on Ógyalla Fő Street in the middle of the... Read More

Árpád Feszty Memorial Hall

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The Feszty Árpád Memorial Hall was inaugurated on December 15, 2006, in Pavilion B of the Feszty Árpád Elementary School and Kindergarten. In addition to the 14-meter-long reproduction of the panorama of the Arrival of the Hungarians, the room features a number of original painti... Read More

The cultural heritage of Miklós Konkoly-Thege

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Miklós Konkoly-Thege was born on January 20, 1842 in Buda, and spent his life on his family's estate in Ógyalla. In 1857–58, he attended the physics classes of Ányos Jedlik, the chemistry classes of Károly Than, and studied mineralogy. He then took his matriculation examination a... Read More

Aba Mountain Juice

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Since 2008, the harvest parade has been organized every year among the vineyard owners (landowners) of the three settlements of Imely, Martos and Ógyalla. Every third year, the Bellő – Konkoly-Thege Polgári Társulás is the main organizer of the harvest festival. As part of the ev... Read More

The Church of Saint Ladislaus in Ógyalla

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The old Catholic church was built in 1718 by Baron Ferenc Szluha on the ruins of the old church in the village. The image of Saint Ladislaus hung between two columns. The building was damaged in the earthquake of 1763, and then partially destroyed in the fire of June 29, 1911. An... Read More