Sárvár

Sarvar [ ʃa ː rva ː r] ( German: Kotenburg or Red Tower at the Raab ) is a city in Hungary. It lies on the road 84 between Sopron ( Sopron ) and Lake Balaton in Vas County. The city has about 15,600 inhabitants and is the county town as an administrative center.

History

The western Hungarian city was very important in the late Middle Ages. It has one of the few Hungarian water castles. The city's name, which could be applied with "mud castle " might suggest that the fortress was the nucleus of the city and was originally located in a marsh and moorland at the confluence of Güns and Raba. Also plausible, however, would be the translation of Sarvar as " Lehmburg ". The type of Lehmburg with palisades on a mound was in use at least in the early medieval Hungary.

During the Renaissance, the city was the center of the Hungarian Reformation.

Castle

The castle-like former water Nádasdy Castle was built in the Renaissance around 1560 instead of an older facility and later Baroque style. At the beginning of the 17th century here lived Elizabeth Báthory. In the ceremonial hall of the plant the victorious battles of her husband Ferenc Nádasdy, the " Black Knight ", against the Turks have shown in pictures of the Viennese painter Hans Rudolf Mueller of 1653. The last owner of the castle were the Bavarian Wittelsbach.

Resort and thermal spa

Sarvar is located in the Hungarian baths road that leads from Sopron to Keszthely and Hévíz about Buk at Lake Balaton. The city is now home to a modern spa. When drilling in 1961 were encountered at a depth of 998 m on alkaline hydrogen- carbon- containing thermal water that emerges at a temperature of 92 ° C. The water of Sarvar is characterized by a very high sodium chloride content of 43 g / l. Additionally, there are iodine, bromine, fluorine, and boric acid. The early 2000s, a new plant was built in the immediate vicinity of the old thermal spa. The city and the spa are popular destination for day-trippers from the neighboring Austrian provinces and Vienna. In the newly created top quality hotel visitors will find now also available for longer stays adequate offers. The spa itself is also brought up to international standards with EU funds in 2010.

Culture and sights

Among the attractions of the city next to the castle grounds include the Arboretum, a park with a very old trees, with its investment in the 16th century during the reign of Ferdinand I of Habsburg was started. There, in addition to numerous domestic as well as numerous exotic plants such as Japanese acacia and Gleditschien grow. Some of the ash and oak trees are 300 to 400 years old.

The annual recurring cultural programs in the city include in the first half of September, the "International Hussars meeting," the "History Day " and the end of October, the Pumpkin Festival.

Sports

A few kilometers outside of Sarvar is located in Ostffyasszonyfa the Pannonia Ring, one of the most famous motorcycle race circuits of Europe.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• András Beythe (1564-1599), botanist
• István Károly Horváth (1931-1966), philologist, teacher and translator
• Kabos László (1923-2004), comedian and actor
• János Stekovics ( b. 1959 ), editor, photojournalist, publisher
• Gáspár Stekovics (born 1966 ), painter
• Vass József (1877-1930), Christian politician

Other personalities associated with the city

• Ludwig III. , The last King of Bavaria, died here in 1921 in exile.