Szekszárd

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Szekszárd
Szekszárd coat of arms
Szekszárd (Hungary)
Szekszárd
Szekszárd
Basic data
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 Coordinates: 46 ° 21 '21 "  N , 18 ° 42' 14"  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
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )
Tolna county with its capital Szekszárd

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.

Babits Mihály's memorial house

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

Town twinning

Aerial view of the center of Szekszárd

Szekszárd lists the following eight municipal partnerships:

city country since Type
Bečej Becej-grb.png SerbiaSerbia Vojvodina, Serbia 1975 Sister city
Bezons Blason ville for Bezons (Val-d'Oise) .svg FranceFrance Île-de-France, France 1967 Sister city
Bietigheim-Bissingen DEU Bietigheim-Bissingen COA.svg GermanyGermany Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany 1989 Sister city
Făget ROU TM Faget CoA.jpg RomaniaRomania Banat, Romania 1998 Twin town
Lugoj ROU TM Lugoj CoA.jpg RomaniaRomania Banat, Romania 1993 Sister city
Ravenna Provincia di Ravenna-Stemma.svg ItalyItaly Emilia-Romagna, Italy 1996 partnership
Tornio Tornio.vaakuna.svg FinlandFinland Lapland, Finland 1986 Sister city
Commodity Wapen waregem.jpg BelgiumBelgium West Flanders, Belgium 1993 Twin town

sons and daughters of the town

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mézeskalács Múzeum - a látnivaló. In: mezeskalacs.hu. Retrieved December 8, 2015 .
  2. ^ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zauberhaftes-ungarn.de
  3. ↑ DBU. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  4. ^ LdU - State Self-Government of the Hungarian Germans - Web Center. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Testvér-, partnertelepülések :: Szekszárd.hu. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .