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Szarvas
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Szarvas (Slovak: Sarvaš, IPA: [sarvaʃ]; German: Sarwasch) is a town in Békés County, Hungary.
Name
[edit]Placename Szarvas originated from the old Hungarian word szarvas, which means deer. Deer also can be found in the coat of arms of the town.
Location
[edit]Szarvas is located in the Great Hungarian Plain upon the Körös River, 170 km (106 mi) southeast from Budapest. Highways 44 and 443, and the Mezőtúr-Orosháza-Mezőhegyes railway line also cross the town.[1] The geographic centre of Hungary was near Szarvas before the Treaty of Trianon; a memorial in a windmill shape now marks that location in a park on a bank of the Körös River across from the Arboretum.[2][3][4]
History
[edit]According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury (Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Kincstár) it was an ethnic Hungarian town in 1495.[5] The Medieval town was ruined due to the Ottoman wars, native Hungarian population fled from the area.[5] It was uninhabited until 1720, when Austrian baron Johann Georg Freiherr von Harruckern (György János Harruckern) invited mainly Slovak settlers from Upper Hungary to the deserted area. They built a brand new town by the help of Sámuel Tessedik, who invited engineers to plan the town.[6] Tessedik also established the first agricultural school in Hungary. Lutheran church was built from 1786 to 1788, the Roman Catholic from 1808 to 1812. Town hall was built in 1820.[6] Hungarians overtook Slovaks in the 1920s, become the majority according to the census was held in 1930.[5]
Since 1990 Szarvas is home to the Ronald S. Lauder Szarvas International Jewish Youth Camp (Hungarian: Szarvasi Nemzetközi Zsidó Ifjúsági Tábor).[7]
Demographics
[edit]According to the 2011 census the total population of Szarvas was 16,954, of whom there were 14,325 (84.5%) Hungarians, 1,822 (10.8%) Slovaks, 489 (2.9%) Romani and 75 (0.4%) Germans by ethnicity. 15.4% did not declare their ethnicity,[8] excluding these people Hungarians made up 99.9% of the total population. In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared a minority one along with Hungarian.[9][10]
In 2011 there were 4,531 (26.7%) Lutheran, 2,601 (15.3%) Roman Catholic and 708 (4.2%) Hungarian Reformed (Calvinist) in Szarvas. 4,087 people (24.1%) were irreligious and 200 (1.2%) Atheist, while 4,601 people (27.1%) did not declare their religion.[9]
Sights
[edit]- Szarvas Botanical Garden (Szarvasi Arborétum)
- Bolza Castle (Bolza-kastély)
- Dry Mill (Szárazmalom)
- Sámuel Tessedik Muzeum (Tessedik Sámuel Múzeum)
- Szarvas Spa (Szarvasi Gyógyfürdő)
- Csáky Castle (Csáky-kastély)
- Mitrovszky Castle (Mitrovszky-kastély)
- György Ruzicskay Art House (Ruzicskay György Alkotóház)
- Lutheran Old Church (Evangélikus ótemplom)
- New Lutheran Church (Evangélikus újtemplom)
- Slovak Country House (Szlovák tájház)
Notable people
[edit]- Roland Lipcsei (1984), Hungarian football player
- Éva Novodomszky (1974), Hungarian journalist and presenter
- Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky (1886-1944), Hungarian politician
- Jon Urbanchek (János Urbancsok) (1936-2024), Hungarian American swimming coach
Sport
[edit]- Szarvasi FC, association football club
Twin towns – sister cities
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References
[edit]- ^ Magyarország autóatlasz, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004, ISBN 963-03-7576-1
- ^ "Historical Centre of Hungary and Memorial Track - National Parks". About Hungary. Hungarian Tourism Ltd. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Geographical center of Hungary". Chesereu Reformed Church. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Arboretum of Szarvas, Szarvas, 5540 Hungary, 46.876976, 20.536938". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ a b c Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; ISBN 963-9545-10-4, CD Atlas
- ^ a b Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, ISBN 963 243 241 X, p. 860, pp. 448-449
- ^ Website of the Szarvas International Jewish Youth Camp
- ^ Gazetteer of Hungary / Szarvas
- ^ a b 2011 Hungarian census, Békés county
- ^ Hungarian census 2011 - final data and methodology
- ^ "Testvérvárosok". szarvas.hu (in Hungarian). Szarvas. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
External links
[edit]
Official website in Hungarian and English
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