Sárvár
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Sárvár (German Kotenburg / Rotenturm an der Raab Slov. Mala Sela) |
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Western Transdanubia | ||||
| County : | Vas | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Sárvár | ||||
| District since 1.1.2013 : | Sárvár | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 15 ′ N , 16 ° 56 ′ E | ||||
| Residents : | 14,717 (Jan. 1, 2011) | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 95 | ||||
| Postal code : | 9600 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 21306 | ||||
| Structure and administration (as of 2016) | |||||
| Community type : | city | ||||
| Mayor : | István Kondora (Fidesz-KDNP) | ||||
| Postal address : | Várkerület 2–3 9600 Sárvár |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Sárvár [ ˈʃaːrvaːr ] ( German : Kotenburg or Rotenturm an der Raab; Slovenian : Mala Sela) is a city in Hungary . It is located on the road 84 between Sopron (Ödenburg) and Lake Balaton in Vas County . The city has about 15,000 inhabitants and, as a district town, is an administrative center. In 2016, Sárvár was awarded the honorary title of “ Reformation City of Europe ” by the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe .
history
The west Hungarian city was important in the late Middle Ages . It has one of the few Hungarian water castles . The city name, which could be translated as “Schlammburg”, could indicate that the fortress was the nucleus of the city and was originally located in a swamp and moor landscape at the confluence of the Güns and the Raab . However, the translation of Sárvár as “clay castle” would be just as plausible. The clay castle type with palisades on an earth wall was common at least in the early medieval kingdom of Hungary .
During the Renaissance , the city was the center of the Hungarian Reformation and was therefore also called the "Hungarian Wittenberg". The Grammatica Hungarolatina by Melanchthon pupil and humanist János Sylvester (Sárvár 1539), the first printed Hungarian-language book, as well as his Hungarian translation of the New Testament (Sárvár 1541) were printed here. In addition, Mátyás Bíró Dévai worked here , the most important Hungarian reformer and author of the first Hungarian catechism (Sárvár 1538).
Castle complex
The fort-like former moated castle Nádasdy was built in the Renaissance around 1560 in place of an older complex and later rebuilt in Baroque style. Elisabeth Báthory lived here at the beginning of the 17th century . The victorious battles of her husband Ferenc Nádasdy , the "Black Knight", against the Turks are depicted in pictures by the Viennese painter Hans Rudolf Müller from 1653 in the grand hall of the complex . The last owners of the castle were the Bavarian Wittelsbachers .
Health resort and thermal bath
Sárvár is located on the Hungarian spa road that leads from Sopron via Bük to Keszthely and Hévíz on Lake Balaton . The city now houses a thermal bath . During drilling in 1961, thermal water containing alkali hydrogen carbon was encountered at a depth of 998 m, which emerges at a temperature of 92 ° C. The water from Sárvár is characterized by a very high sodium chloride content of 43 g / l. It also contains iodine , bromine , fluorine and boric acid . At the beginning of the 2000s, a new facility was built in the immediate vicinity of the old thermal bath. The city and the thermal baths are an excursion destination for day tourists from the neighboring Austrian federal states and Vienna . In addition, new hotels were built . The thermal baths were brought up to international level in 2010 with EU funds.
Culture and sights
In addition to the castle complex, the city's sights include the arboretum , a park with a very old population of trees, the construction of which began in the 16th century during the reign of Ferdinand I of Habsburg (1503–1564). In addition to native plants, exotic plants such as Japanese acacias and Gleditschia also grow there . Some of the ash and English oak are 300 to 400 years old.
The city's annual cultural programs include the “International Hussar Meeting ” in the first half of September , the “History Days” and the pumpkin festival at the end of October .
Sports
A few kilometers outside of Sárvár in Ostffyasszonyfa is the Pannonia Ring , one of the most famous motorcycle racing tracks in Europe.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- András Beythe (1564–1599), botanist
- István Károly Horváth (1931–1966), philologist, teacher and translator
- László Kabos (1923–2004), cabaret artist and actor
- János Stekovics (* 1959), editor, photo reporter, publisher
- Gáspár Stekovics (* 1966), painter
- József Vass (1877–1930), Christian politician
- Kinga Tóth (* 1983), writer
- Zoltán Stieber (* 1988), soccer player
Other personalities associated with the city
- Mátyás Bíró Dévai , important Hungarian reformer
- János Sylvester , humanist, Bible translator
- Ludwig III. , the last Bavarian king , died here in exile in 1921
Town twinning
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Seini , Romania
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Sonntagberg , Austria
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Steinheim an der Murr , Germany, since May 1990 -
Uherské Hradiště , Czech Republic
Web links
- Aerial photos over Sárvár. In: civertan.hu
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b On the importance of Sárvár in the history of the Reformation see the city portrait of the Reformation City of Sárvár from the project Reformation Cities of Europe. In: reformation-cities.org/cities, accessed on July 18, 2016.
- ↑ -red: bathing in EU millions. What Hungary spends EU money on: three examples from tourism ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Pester Lloyd . March 24, 2010, accessed March 27, 2010.
- ↑ Information on the partnership on the homepage of the city of Steinheim an der Murr ( Memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: stadt-steinheim.de, accessed on July 18, 2016.