Sárospatak

Sárospatak [ ʃa roʃpɒtɒk ː ] ( German Patak on Bodrog, Slovak Šarišský Potok ) is a small town in Hungary.

Geographical Location

Sárospatak is located in north -eastern Hungary, 70 kilometers from county capital Miskolc. Riverside Bodrog near the Ukrainian and Slovakian borders and has about 15,000 inhabitants. Sárospatak in Borsod -Abaúj -Zemplén is located in the Tokaj wine region, near the wine village of Tokaj lies. For the city is also the place Bodroghalász.

History

The present city dates back to a settlement from the 11th century, which was created at the request of the Hungarian kings as a hunting camp. This place was first mentioned in 1221 as "Villa Potoc ". Only after 1450 did the present form of the name Sárospatak. In the first castle, initially only a fort -like tower, which was built to protect the settlement in 1207 was the daughter of the Hungarian King Andrew II - the later saint Elisabeth was born and baptized.

After the extinction of the dynasty of Árpád, the area later came under the jurisdiction of the Rákóczi family, who presided over the county Semplin and excelled in the 16th century as a follower of Calvinism. The Rákóczi Castle was added by them as a representative castle in the medieval castle. The city has been upgraded by the princes through the expansion of educational institutions to a " Athens on Bodrog " or " Calvinist Athens".

Attractions

  • The Castle of Sárospatak ( Rákóczi castle ). It has become in the history of Hungary has become a symbol of the guided anti-Habsburg struggles. To her, the castle church belongs.

Personalities

  • The later canonized Countess Elisabeth of Thuringia (* 1207, † November 17, 1231 in Marburg Memorial Day: November 19 ) was born here.
  • George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (1593-1648), was one of the most important rulers of the Hungarian history of the 17th century, he died in 1648 Sárospatak. Likewise, died here on April 18, 1660 his widow Lorántffy Zsuzsanna.
  • In Sárospatak Johann Amos Comenius held from 1650 to 1654 as a teacher at. He was here the guest of Prince Rákóczi family and was entrusted to a " Pansophical school" ( comprehensive school ) set up. Here are the two books "The World in Pictures" ( 1658) and " The School as a Game " ( 1656) emerged.
  • Jesuit Father Johann Grueber (* 1623 in Linz, † 1680 in Sárospatak ) was in the group of the first Europeans who visited Lhasa in Tibet in 1661.
  • Imre Bezerédj (1679-1708) was a captain and leader of the Kuruzenaufstandes against the Habsburgs.
  • János Erdélyi, writer and ethnographer worked at the college in the years 1851-1862 Sárospatak and founded the Sárospataki - füzetek (notebooks of Sárospatak ).

Twin Cities

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