Csurgó
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Southern Transdanubia | ||||
| County : | Somogy | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Csurgó | ||||
| District since 1.1.2013 : | Csurgó | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 15 ' N , 17 ° 6' E | ||||
| Area : | 59.6 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 5,248 (Jan 1, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 88 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 82 | ||||
| Postal code : | 8840 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 21315 | ||||
| Structure and administration (as of 2020) | |||||
| Community type : | city | ||||
| Structure : | Csurgó, Alsok | ||||
| Mayor : | János Füstös (Fidesz-KDNP) | ||||
| Postal address : | Széchenyi tér 2 8840 Csurgó |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Csurgó [ tʃurɡoː ] is a Hungarian city in the district of the same name in Somogy County , about five kilometers from the border with Croatia . The district Alsok belongs to the city . Nationwide, the city is best known as the center of the Reformed Church in Hungary , which has run a high school there since the 18th century.
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1019. The core of the settlement is said to have been a convent in the 12th and 13th centuries , which sources assign to different orders. Templar knights are mentioned as Conventual , other sources speak of the Order of St. John . In 1405 Csurgó was promoted to town. In the 15th century a castle was built here by the Zriny family , but it was destroyed in the 18th century and no longer exists today. From 1543 the songwriter and lute player Sebestyén Tinódi lived in the city for two years after his liege lord Valentin Török was captured by the Turks in 1541 and abducted from Hungary. The Hungarian historian of the 16th century, Miklós Istvanffy , mentions the place under the spelling Chorgó in his description of the Turkish wars . Around 1600 there was an immigration of Slovenian Protestants who fled to Hungary from the Habsburg Counter-Reformation . Later these Reformed Slovenes mixed with their Hungarian co-religionists, which slowly led to the disappearance of the Slovenian language. After the Turkish Wars, the Habsburgs handed over control of the city to the Festetics aristocratic family, and Slovak and Croatian refugees settled here, as well as Germans who were summoned as settlers . There was also a Jewish community in the city, which produced some nationally known rabbis , including Mordechai Benet (1753-1829, later rabbi in the Moravian Nikolsburg ), Ludwig Lichtstein and Ludwig Venetians.
In 1799 the Hungarian poet Mihály Csokonai Vitéz lived in the city for a short time and taught at the reformed grammar school as an assistant teacher. This is where his comical epic “Dorothea or The Triumph of Women in Carnival” was created . At the beginning of the 19th century the city consisted of two parts. The Catholic Church was in Old Csurgó and the Reformed Church in New Csurgó. The ruin of the castle was exactly in the middle between the two districts. In 1826 there were 1240 inhabitants, including 690 Catholics, 500 Reformed and 50 Jews. This composition changed to 1000 Catholics, 700 Reformed, 120 Evangelical Lutheran and 80 Jews by 1858. The majority of the Hungarian residents were Reformed, but some were also Catholic. The Slovaks and Croats were mostly Catholic and the German residents Catholic or Lutheran.
The city, located on the road from Vienna to Szigetvár , was known for its orchards and white wine growing, as well as for the fertile arable land and rich pastures all around. With the beginning of the industrial revolution , however, the centers of economic development shifted and Csurgó was therefore downgraded to the status of a minor town in 1850 . With the construction of the Dombóvár – Gyékényes line, Csurgó got a connection to the railway network in 1872, but this could not significantly change the geographical edge of the city. Csurgó remained a small rural town. It was not until 1989 that it regained full city status. The railway section between Somogyszob and Gyékényes , on which Csurgó is located, was only electrified in 1994.
Town twinning
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Haimhausen (Germany / Bavaria) -
Cristuru Secuiesc (Romania) -
Aumale (France / Dep. Seine-Maritime) -
Markelo , Netherlands -
Vráble , Slovakia -
Fehérvárcsurgó , Hungary -
Vrsar , Croatia -
Yuzawa , Japan
traffic
Roads No. 6808 and No. 6819 meet in Csurgó. The city is connected to the railway line from Gyékényes to Dombóvár .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helyi önkormányzati választások 2019 - Csurgó (Somogy megye). Nemzeti Választási Iroda, accessed February 28, 2020 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Magyarország helységnévtára: Csurgó. Központi Statisztikai Hivatal, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Hungarian).
- ^ F. Ludwig: Newest Conversations Lexicon; or, Allgemeine Deutsche Real-Encyclopaedie fuer educated states , Volume 4, 1826, pages 640-641
- ↑ Victor Hornyansky: Geographical Lexicon of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Serbian Voivodeship with the Temescher Banate , Heckenast, 1858, page 78: Csurgó, Hungarian market, Comitat Sümeg