Verpelét
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Northern Hungary | ||||
| County : | Heves | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Eger | ||||
| District since 1.1.2013 : | Eger | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 51 ' N , 20 ° 14' E | ||||
| Height : | 131 m | ||||
| Area : | 53.18 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 3,824 (Jan 1, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 72 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 36 | ||||
| Postal code : | 3351 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 24147 | ||||
| Structure and administration (as of 2020) | |||||
| Community type : | city | ||||
| Mayor : | Sándor Farkas (Fidesz-KDNP) | ||||
| Postal address : | Kossuth Lajos utca 73 3351 Verpelét |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Verpelét is a Hungarian city in Heves county . With 3811 inhabitants (as of 2017), Verpelét is the second largest town in the Eger district .
geography
Verpelét is located in northern Hungary, about 18 kilometers southwest of the city of Eger . The city is located on the Tarna in a hilly landscape that merges into the Mátra Mountains in the northwest of the municipality . The center is about 130 meters above sea level, the highest point in the municipality is the Remete-tetö at 610 m.
history
The current municipal area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, as evidenced by archaeological finds of the Piliny culture . In the Middle Ages, not far from today's location, there was a moth on flat terrain , which probably only existed for a short time during the Árpáden period and is now preserved as an unexcavated ground monument .
Verpelét was first mentioned in a document in 1252, the name Welpreth is documented from the 14th century . Between 1389 and 1465 the place belonged to the Sirok Castle . After the Turkish army had taken Hatvan in 1544 , they also advanced into the unpaved Verpelét shortly afterwards. During the Turkish rule the population decreased strongly; In 1686 only one and a half tax-paying households were counted. In 1695, Verpelét was destroyed by fire, but quickly rebuilt. In 1701 the place had 134 full-time gainfully employed residents, and this year the market law has been proven for the first time .
During the Hungarian War of Independence , Verpelét was one of the scenes of the Battle of Kápolna on February 26 and 27, 1849 .
From the end of the 18th century there was a Jewish community in Verpelét, to which more than half of the Jews living in the Eger district belonged in 1840. In 1870 the synagogue was opened in the village, next to it there was a school and a yeshiva . During the White Terror of 1919-21, Jews in Verpelét were also victims of looting. After the occupation of Hungary by German troops, the entire Jewish population of the town was deported to the Bagolyuk Ghetto and then to the Auschwitz extermination camp in May 1944 . Only five survivors of the Holocaust returned to Verpelét after the war ended.
Verpelét has had town charter since 2013.
economy
Verpelét has always been characterized by agriculture. In 1920, about 85% of the population was employed in agriculture and the proportion of industry "very low for a place of this size". Viticulture plays an important role on the loess and clay soils of the Tarna Valley, which probably dates back to the 15th century. In the past, the soils were also used for growing tobacco.
Today white and red wines are grown on an area of 592 hectares ; more than a fifth are linden- leaved ( Hárslevelű ). In addition to the obtained therefrom Debrői Hárslevelű include Egri Bikavér and Verpeléter Riesling ( Olaszrizling ) and Muscat ( Muskotály ) of the specialties of the place.
Attractions
- Roman Catholic Church Krisztus Király és Mindenszentek in Baroque style
- Forge, built in 1880, sarnished in 1964
- Burgberg ( Várhegy ), a hill of volcanic origin ( flank volcano ) north of the town center with a view of the Tarna valley
- Former mansion Sztáray-kastély (now used as a primary school)
- Sculpture of the Wine Growers ( Szőlőművelők szobra ), created in 1992 by Károly Radó
- Fish pond ( Halastó ) 3 km northeast of the village
Roman Catholic Church
Wrought
town hall
Fish pond
traffic
Verpelét is on the road no. 2416, a side road from Eger to Gyöngyös . The place is also connected to Kápolna by road No. 2417 and road No. 2415 to Sirok . Verpelét has a train station on the Kisterenye - Kál -Kápolna railway line , on which, however, no passenger trains have been running since 2007.
Personalities
- Kati Kovács (* 1944), singer and actress
Web links
- Official website ( Hungarian )
- Verpelét at tourinform.hu (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History on the City of Verpelét website, accessed on March 24, 2020 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust . tape 3 . NYU Press, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-8147-9378-7 , pp. 1388 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Verpelét. The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot , accessed March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Helmut Klocke: The social structure of a Magyar village. Verpelét in Heves county . In: Hungarian Yearbooks . tape 14 , 1934, pp. 353-384 ( mtak.hu [PDF]).
- ↑ Tivadar Barnat: An economic geography of Hungary . 2nd Edition. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1989, ISBN 978-963-05-4990-5 , p. 370 .
- ↑ Verpeléti hegyközség on the website of the Eger wine region, accessed on March 24, 2020 (Hungarian).