Szekszárd
Szekszárd | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Hungary | |||
Region : | Southern Transdanubia | |||
County : | Tolna | |||
Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Szekszárd | |||
District since 1.1.2013 : | Szekszárd | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 21 ' N , 18 ° 42' E | |||
Area : | 96.28 km² | |||
Residents : | 33,720 (Jan. 1, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 350 inhabitants per km² | |||
Telephone code : | (+36) 74 | |||
Postal code : | 7100 | |||
KSH kódja: | 22761 | |||
Structure and administration (status: 2014) | ||||
Community type : | city | |||
Mayor : | Rezső Ács (Fidesz-KDNP) | |||
Postal address : | Béla király tér 8 7100 Szekszárd |
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(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) |
Szekszárd [ ˈsɛksaːrd ] ( German Sechshard or Sechsard ) is a Hungarian city in the district of the same name in Tolna County , with almost 34,000 inhabitants (as of 2011). It has the rights of a county itself and is the administrative center of Tolna county , but is on the outskirts.
Attractions
King Béla I founded an abbey here , the ruins of which still reflect the classicistic style of the former county house. The Catholic church in plait style (1805) is one of the largest single-nave sacred buildings in Central Europe. The baroque Trinity column commemorates the plague epidemic from 1738 to 1740.
After Szekszárd, a well-known wine-growing region , which is surrounded by seven hills, got its name. Based on archaeological finds, it is assumed that a wine culture flourished here as early as 2000 years ago at the beginning of Roman times . At that time, a fort could have been founded on this site . The typical grape of this region is the Kadarka - vine , from Dalmatia originates. The red wine of the Szekszárdi bikavér (Szekszárder bull's blood), which is made from three grape varieties typical of this region, including the Kadarka grape, is best known .
The hermit chapel, which is an old pilgrimage site, stands between the Séd brook and the hills cultivated with vineyards . Across the stream is the birthplace of the city's greatest son, the poet Mihály Babits . In the Augusz House, where Franz Liszt was often a guest, a music school was set up and named after the composer.
The Gemencer Forest , which extends in the floodplain of the Danube , is one of the most important natural monuments of Hungary. Although the forest is an important hunting ground in the country, it was incorporated into the Danube-Drava National Park in 1996 . It can be reached on foot from the Gemenc tourist center, which is part of Szekszárd , but also by a narrow-gauge railway , with a riding horse, with your own horse-drawn carriage and also by motorboat. The Museum for Trophies is currently showing an exhibition on "Life in the Flood Area", which deals with the nature of the Gemenc Forest.
The historicist style synagogue was built in 1897.
Culture
Museums and tourism
There is a gingerbread museum in Szekszárd.
Archaeological finds can be found in the Mór Wosinsky Museum.
The museum in the birthplace of the poet Mihály Babits (1883–1941) at Babics Mihály utca 13 shows exhibits on the life and work of the poet and the everyday life of a middle-class family in rural Hungary in the 19th century.
There is a Franz Liszt exhibition on the top floor of the county town hall, as he was often in Szekszárd.
The European long-distance hiking trail E7 runs through Szekszárd and the two long-distance hiking trails " Rockenbauer Pál Dél-dunántúli Kéktúra " and " Alföldi Kéktúra " begin or end .
theatre
On Garay tér , in a former cinema, is the German Stage Hungary , the only theater in the county and the only German-speaking stage in the country that functions as an institution of the self-government of the Hungarian Germans .
Larger places in the area
- Within 10 km: Decs , Harc , Kakasd , Őcsény , Sióagárd and Szálka
- Cities to about 50 km distance: Baja and Tolna , further Bóly , Bonyhád , Dombóvár , Bátaszék , Komló , Mecseknádasd , Mohács (Turks battle), Nagydorog , Nagynyárád , Paks and the big city Pecs (County Baranya ), the adjacent him Pécsvárad (famous Benediktinerstift ), Szedres , Tamási , Uszód , Váralja , Zengővárkony (castle on the slopes of the Mecsek Mountains), Zomba .
Town twinning
Szekszárd lists the following eight municipal partnerships:
city | country | since | Type |
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Bečej | Vojvodina, Serbia | 1975 | Sister city |
Bezons | Île-de-France, France | 1967 | Sister city |
Bietigheim-Bissingen | Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany | 1989 | Sister city |
Făget | Banat, Romania | 1998 | Twin town |
Lugoj | Banat, Romania | 1993 | Sister city |
Ravenna | Emilia-Romagna, Italy | 1996 | partnership |
Tornio | Lapland, Finland | 1986 | Sister city |
Commodity | West Flanders, Belgium | 1993 | Twin town |
sons and daughters of the town
- János Garay (1812-1853), poet
- Mihály Babits (1883–1941), poet and writer
- József Rády (1884–1957), fencer
- Miklós Mészöly (1921–2001), writer
- Judit Csehák (* 1940), doctor and politician
- Erik Bánki (* 1970), politician
- Attila Fiola (* 1990), soccer player
- Gyula Pap (* 1991), chess master
- Eszter Földes (* 1987), actress
traffic
The main road No. 56 and the state road No. 5113 run through Szekszárd, and the M6 motorway three kilometers east of the city center . Szekszárd is connected to the railway line from Sárbogárd to Baja .
Web links
- Official website
- Online lexicon (not evaluated)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mézeskalács Múzeum - a látnivaló. In: mezeskalacs.hu. Retrieved December 8, 2015 .
- ^ Magical Hungary, Szekszárd. (No longer available online.) In: zauberhaftes-ungarn.de. October 26, 2015, archived from the original on December 11, 2015 ; Retrieved December 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ DBU. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
- ^ LdU - State Self-Government of the Hungarian Germans - Web Center. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Testvér-, partnertelepülések :: Szekszárd.hu. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .