Szarvas
Szarvas [ sɒrvɒʃ ] (Slovak Szarvas ) is a town with 17,731 inhabitants ( 2008) in Hungary in Békés county.
The city is located in the Great Hungarian Plain at an oxbow lake of the river Körös and on the National Road 44 from Kecskemét over the county seat Békéscsaba to Gyula on the Romanian border.
History
The old settlement on the hill of the same name (Hungarian szarvas = deer ) went out in the period of Turkish rule. In 1722 the city was re-founded by Protestant settlement Slovaks. Even today, Szarvas has a Slovak -speaking part of the population with its own primary school.
Sámuel Tessedik (1742-1820), a priest and scientist who planned the strict checkerboard settlement pattern with wide streets that still distinguishes the city from other Hungarian locations, and founded one of the first agricultural schools of Europe.
In the nineteenth century, an arboretum was created by the family Bolza (85 acres ), a main attraction of the city.
Its present meaning Szarvas as the center of an agricultural environment and as the location of two research centers ( for fish farming and irrigation ), an agricultural science college, a teacher training college and other schools. Tourism also is becoming increasingly important ( among other water sports on the Körös oxbow lake, horse riding ). Szarvas is the center of the Körös - Maros National Park.
In September 2011, Hungary's largest and most advanced biogas plant was officially put into operation by the re Bioenergy GmbH. In a one-year construction period, the waste incineration plant with a capacity of around 4 MW, was built (MW).
Attractions
- Old Protestant Church ( evangélikus ótemplom ) from 1788
- Catholic Church of 1812
- Arboretum
- Sámuel - Tessedik Museum ( Muzeum Tessedik Sámuel )
- Mill (1836 )
Sons and daughters of the town
- Endre Bajcsy- Zsilinszky, politicians
- György Ruzicskay, painter
- Árpád Szendy, composer
- Itamar Yaoz - Keszt, Israeli poet and translator