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Coat of arms of Pápa
Pápa (Hungary)
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Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Central Transdanubia
County : Veszprém
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Father
District since 1.1.2013 : Father
Coordinates : 47 ° 19 '  N , 17 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '25 "  N , 17 ° 28' 5"  E
Area : 91.47  km²
Residents : 32,473 (Jan 1, 2011)
Population density : 355 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 89
Postal code : 8500
KSH kódja: 31945
Structure and administration (as of 2012)
Community type : city
Mayor : Tamás Áldozó
Postal address : Fő u. 12
8500 pa
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Pápa (German outdated: Poppa ) [ ˈpaːpɒ ] is a town in Veszprém County in western Hungary with about 33,000 inhabitants.

Location and history

The city, characterized by the baroque, is located on the Tapolcza, about halfway between Győr (Raab) and Lake Balaton . The first written mention dates from the year 1061. The "school town" Pápa has great significance for the surrounding area in the educational sector. Two departments of the Pannonian University of Veszprém can also be found here.

It lies at the intersection of the Bakony Forest and the Little Hungarian Plain . It is also the cultural, economic and tourist center of the region. The city developed into a market town in the 15th century. The Franciscans settled here, and later the Pauline Order . In the late Middle Ages, Pápa was the most important center of Protestantism in western Hungary. Therefore Pápa with its 13 houses of worship is also called the city of churches. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Pápa was repeatedly in Turkish hands and was burned in 1707 on the orders of the imperial general Heister. On June 12, 1809, an avant-garde battle between the French and Austrians took place here.

In 1944 the Jewish population of Pápa was ghettoized and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Latène Age burial ground

In the district of Borsosgyőr, a formerly independent village, Celtic graves were uncovered in the Malomút sand pit in 1965. The local museum Pápa has carried out rescue excavations , whereby it was found that the graves were already badly damaged by the sand mining and earlier fruit crops. Of the total of 18 graves still found, some had already been robbed at the time. Most of the graves were oriented in a south-north direction, six of them in a NE-SW direction. The period of occupancy has been dated from late spring Latène (LTB II, 380–250 BC) to central Latène (LTC I, 250–150 BC). The (warrior) grave 18 was particularly noteworthy, in which an iron lance tip, an iron sword with scabbard, a shield boss , an iron belt hook, as well as ceramic vessels and food accessories were found as grave goods . This grave could be found at the end of the 4th century BC. Until the beginning of the 3rd century BC. To be dated.

Attractions

The Esterházy -Schloss goes to a castle back, the Palatine Nicholas Garai was built from 1408 to 1432. In 1626 it came into the possession of Nikolaus Esterházy by inheritance . The castle was destroyed during the Rákóczi uprising . In 1717 construction began as a baroque palace . From 1743, the construction management was in the hands of Franz Anton Pilgram , whose large-scale plans were only partially implemented. At the end of the 1750s, Bishop Karl Eszterházy († 1799) inherited the castle and had it completed in the shape that has largely been preserved to this day.

Bishop Eszterházy had the large Catholic Church of St. Stephen built between the castle and town between 1774 and 1786 . The plans for the two-tower church, now a landmark of the city, come from Jakob Fellner , the ceiling frescoes from Franz Anton Maulpertsch . A statue of Karl Eszterházy by László Marton has stood in front of the church portal since 2000 .

The White Church (today's Benedictine Church), built by the Paulines in 1744, has a valuable interior decorated with wood carvings. In the foreground is the so-called Moorish Christ from the 17th century. The Franciscan church from the years 1678–1680 is located on Brüderstraße (Barát utca) . Pápa has been the center of the Reformed Church District of Transdanubia since the 16th century. The two-tower reformed large church in neo-renaissance style, which was completed in 1941, is worth seeing. The Reformed College, whose spiritual aura has shaped the life of the city for centuries, was founded in 1531. The current building was erected in 1895–1899. Today it houses a grammar school and the Pápa Reformed Collections complex (library, archive, museum). The Old College (Ókollégium) is located in Sándor Petőfi Street , and next to it is the former home of Sándor Petőfi (1842) with a memorial plaque. The Museum of Church Art has a permanent exhibition in the Reformed Old Church. Opposite is the "blue dye museum". The Kluge family's blue dye workshop was once located here, at that time one of the most important companies of its kind in Europe. The original facility can still be viewed today. The “Apotheke zum Granatapfel” next to the city hospital is also a pharmacy museum. In the center of the city there are still numerous important buildings that have been preserved in their original form. In 1989, the city of Pápa received an award for the exemplary revitalization of the old town. Another famous building in the city is Esterházy Palace, the park of which is a protected area. The library reading room and the former palace chapel were awarded the Europa Nostra Prize after the renovation . The ceiling fresco there is famous. The castle was completely renovated from 1988 to April 2015. In addition to the castle and the large church on the renovated main square, the city has other baroque houses. In the historical part of the small baroque town there are numerous buildings that are under monument protection.

The synagogue was built in 1846.

photos

  • Esterházy Palace

  • Downtown

  • Esterházy Palace, in front of it the large St. Stephen's Church (in 2007, before renovation)

  • Civertanlegipápa1.jpg
  • Civertanlegipápa5.jpg

Sports

The Lombard Pápa football team currently plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság , Hungary's 1st league.

politics

The mayor of the city is called Támas Áldozó. He is also a representative in parliament.

military

The Pápa Air Force Base of the Hungarian Air Force is the main location of the Strategic Airlift Capability . Among other things, the task force, the so-called Heavy Airlift Wing , is stationed here with three C-17 transport aircraft.

Town twinning

Sign of the town twinning in Pápa

Pápa maintains the following city partnerships:

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Pápa , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 574f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sándor Mithay: Korai Kelta sírletek Borsosgyőrből it Kiskamondról. [Finds of early Celtic graves near Borsosgyőr and Kiskamond] Veszprém Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 5, Veszprém 1966, p. 55 ff .; In: Susanne Sievers , Otto Helmut Urban , Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A – K. Announcements of the prehistoric commission in the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , pp. 211-212.
  2. ↑ A Pápai Esterházy kastély története. ( Memento of November 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) esterhazykastely.papa.hu
  3. ↑ Elkészühlt a kastélyépület felújítása (Hungarian)
  4. ↑ Website Pápa - twin cities http://papa.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=917&Itemid=424

Web links

Commons : Pápa  - collection of images, videos and audio files