Mátraszentimre

	Mátraszentimre
	Mátraszentimre
	Mátraszentimre
Basic data
State :	Hungary
Region :	Northern Hungary
County :	Heves
District since 1.1.2013 :	Gyöngyös
Coordinates :	47 ° 55 ' N , 19 ° 53' E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '35 " N , 19 ° 52' 33" E
Area :	21.29 km²
Residents :	465 (Jan 1, 2011)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+36) 37
Postal code :	3235
KSH kódja:	29045
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Community type :	local community
Mayor :	András József Stuller
Postal address :	Rákóczi u. 16 ; 3235 Mátraszentimre
Website :	www.matraszentimre.hu
	(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Church of the Three Villages

Mátraszentimre is a municipality in Heves county .

geography

Mátraszentimre is the highest municipality in Hungary and is located in the Mátra . It is a popular winter sports area. Galya-tető mountain lies on the western border of the municipality . The Országos Kéktúra long-distance hiking trail also runs through the municipality.

structure

The community consists of six districts:

Mátraszentimre
Mátraszentistván
Mátraszentlászló
Bagolyirtás
Fallóskút
Galyatető

history

The villages in the Upper Mátra were isolated and hardly known. Tourism only developed with the separation of the greater part of the Western Carpathians from the Hungarian territory through the Trianon Peace Treaty . Many hotels and sanatoriums were built in the 1930s.

On the 900th anniversary of the death of King Stephen the Holy in the summer of 1938, the villages of Ötházhuta were renamed Mátraszentimre, Fiskalitáshuta to Mátraszentlászló and Óhuta to Mátraszentistván as part of a public festival . In 1944 the previously independent communities united. In 1948 Galyatető was also incorporated.

In the 1950s, the Piszkéstető observatory was built in the Mátraszentimre district .

In 1991 the Biathlon Junior World Championships took place in Galyatető .