Egerszalók
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Northern Hungary | ||||
| County : | Heves | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Eger | ||||
| District since 1.1.2013 : | Eger | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 52 ' N , 20 ° 20' E | ||||
| Height : | 150 m | ||||
| Area : | 23.11 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 1,884 (Jan 1, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 82 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 36 | ||||
| Postal code : | 3394 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 24758 | ||||
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| Community type : | local community | ||||
| Mayor : | István Varga (Fidesz-KDNP) | ||||
| Postal address : | Sáfrány út 7 3394 Egerszalók |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Egerszalók is a Hungarian community in the county Eger in Heves county . The place is best known for its limestone terraces .
geography
Egerszalók is located in northern Hungary , seven kilometers southwest of the city center of Eger . The place is about 150 meters above sea level in the valley of the Laskó , a tributary of the Tisza , which crosses the municipality in a north-south direction. The Laskó is dammed three kilometers north of the town center to the 1.2 km² large Egerszalóki víztározó .
The area around Egerszalók is characterized by viticulture , which, with 420 hectares of vineyards, takes up almost one fifth of the municipal area.
history
Egerszalók was first mentioned in 1248 under the name terra Zolouk and was the home of the noble family of Szalók , after whom the place was named. Wine was probably already being grown in the area at the time of the Mongol Storm . At the beginning of Turkish rule in 1550, 17 families were counted in the village. The place was depopulated several times during the following two centuries, but each time it was soon repopulated. From 1579 he was called Egyházasszalók (from ung. Egyház : church).
In 1731 31 Danube Swabians settled in Egerszalók, and from the middle of the 18th century also an increasing number of ethnic Hungarians. The village was dominated by agriculture, with viticulture making up about a third of the area under cultivation. At the end of the 19th century, Egerszalók had the status of a large municipality and had 1338 inhabitants.
After the Second World War, a large number of workers migrated to nearby Eger. This trend was reversed again from the 2000s. The population of Egerszalók increased by around 150 between 2011 and 2019.
Attractions
Sintered terraces
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On the southern outskirts of Egerszalók are the sinter terraces , which are colloquially referred to as salt mounds (sódomb) . They have been in existence since 1961, when unsuccessful test boreholes in search of oil reached a reservoir with warm karst water that was about 400 meters deep . Since the borehole could not be closed again, thermal water at between 65 and 68 ° C has escaped at this point .
Due to the high calcium content of the water (around 630 mg / l) and the pressure and temperature difference between the reservoir and the surface, the calcium was deposited on the surface in the form of lime ( precipitation ). With the help of artificially created canals, the water from the former borehole, which is located on a hill, is transported to changing places on the slopes of the hill. In the course of time, the extensive travertine terraces were created , which in 2013 took up an area of 822 square meters. Occasionally they are referred to as "small" or "Hungarian Pamukkale" in reference to the - much older and larger - sinter terraces in Pamukkale .
The thermal water initially flowed unhindered down the slope before it was collected in a concrete-lined basin on the initiative of the residents in 1971. For several decades this served as a 24/7 public bathing area before today's hotel and thermal bath complex was built below the sintered terraces in the mid-2000s. Most of the thermal water today comes from the Mária spring opened in 1987, the water of which was declared medicinal water in 1992 .
The sinter terraces were placed under nature protection in 1986 and later fenced in to protect them against erosion .
More Attractions
- Medicinal and thermal baths (Gyógy- és Thermal Fürdő) , next to the sinter terraces and the Hotel Saliris Resort
- Roman Catholic Church Szűz Mária , built in 1738 in Baroque style, with a Baroque parish (1831–1834)
- Roman Catholic Chapel Szent Vendel in the Kristálydomb district
- Cave dwellings (Barlanglakások) on Sáfrány utca
- Old stone bridge (Öreg kőhíd) over the Laskó from the 19th century
Thermal bath with hotel complex
Roman Catholic Szűz Mária Church
traffic
Egerszalók is connected to the neighboring towns of Eger and Verpelét by road No. 2416 . The neighboring towns of Egerszólát and Demjén and 3-as főút in Kerecsend can also be reached via secondary roads . The next train station and the next motorway connection (to the M25 ) are both seven kilometers away in Eger.
Web links
- Official website ( Hungarian )
- Egerszalók on the Eger tourist website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egerszalóki hegyközség on the website of the Eger wine-growing region, accessed on May 14, 2020 (Hungarian).
- ↑ A település múltja. History on the Egerszalók Municipality website, accessed on May 14, 2020
- ↑ Eger-Szalók in A Pallas nagy lexikona (Hungarian).
- ↑ a b c Borbála Benkhard: Travertine Mound of Egerszalók: The Hungarian Pamukkale . In: Dénes Lóczy (Ed.): Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary . Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-08997-3 , pp. 201-207 .
- ↑ Rick Steves, Cameron Hewitt: Rick Steves' Budapest . 6th edition. Hachette, 2019, ISBN 978-1-64171-088-6 , pp. 453–454 ( limited preview in Google Book search).