Ópusztaszer

	Ópusztaszer
	Ópusztaszer
	Ópusztaszer
Basic data
State :	Hungary
Region :	Southern Great Plain
County :	Csongrád-Csanád
Small area until December 31, 2012 :	Kistelek
Coordinates :	46 ° 30 ' N , 20 ° 4' E Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '42 " N , 20 ° 3' 54" E
Height :	75 m
Area :	59.5 km²
Residents :	2,295 (Jan. 1, 2011)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+36) 62
Postal code :	6767
KSH kódja:	12797
Structure and administration (as of 2015)
Community type :	local community
Mayor :	József Makra (independent)
Postal address :	Tóhajlat 130 ; 6767 Ópusztaszer
Website :	www.opusztaszerkozseg.hu
	(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Ópusztaszer (until 1974 Sövényháza ) is a municipality in the Csongrád-Csanád county , in the southern lowlands in southern Hungary , known for the " Feszty Panorama " on the 55 hectare open-air museum .

geography

Geographical location

Ópusztaszer lies in the 22,000 ha large nature reserve of Pusztaszer with groves, meadows and rivers between the highway E75 and the Tisza .

At the beginning of the 1970s, on the initiative of the sociographer Ferenc Erdei, the place Ópusztaszer was created and expanded. The work was directed by the directorate of museums in Csongrád county until 1995, when it was taken over by the society with public utility. One of the architects is György Csete , who built the forest church with a museum in 1992 to commemorate the conquest in the 11th century.

The Feszty Panorama

After his return from Paris and on the advice of his father-in-law, the writer Mór Jókai , Árpád Feszty began painting in 1892 on the huge canvas supplied from Belgium in the building designed by the architect Adolf Feszty for the panorama picture .

The 120 m long, 15 m high and 38 m diameter panorama shows the episodes of the conquest around 896. For two years, from 1892 to 1894, Árpád Feszty, László Mednyánszky and Pál Vágó worked on the panorama picture.

Clockwise, the visitor can observe the individual scenes with the appropriate sound effects, whereby the most important episodes are illuminated with light beams.

Open-air museum and ruins garden

In the open-air museum , the various variants of rural culture and the typical scenes of public life in the area from the 18th century are shown. You can see a school, a homestead with a stable, shed, granary as well as wine and kitchen garden.

A fishery , blacksmith shop with Wagner and saddler with the farms still belonging to them , a windmill , village shop , fire engines and the ruined garden can be visited. According to tradition, the conquering Hungarians pitched their tents here in 896 and determined the areas for the individual tribes. At the turn of the 10th to the 11th century when the land estate was completed, the successors of the tribal leader Ond had a church built.

The yurt-shaped buildings , in which the treasures of nature are visible, are made of pine and have been bent into the house using an ancient technique.

View of the open-air museum
Village street in the open-air museum of Ópusztaszer.
Information board in the open-air museum of Ópusztaszer.
Genealogical tree exhibited in the Panoptikum .
Floor plans of the monastery and church of Ópusztaszer.
Wooden disc of a sequoia tree with a diameter of 5.4 to 6.3 m, the 80 cm thick cut weighs 7.5 t .