Szentlőrinc

Szentlőrinc [ sɛntlø Rints ː ] ( German St. Lawrence, Croatian: Selurinac ) is a small town of 7,400 inhabitants in southern Hungary in Transdanubia Baranya county. It is the economic, cultural and administrative center of the homonymous small area of about 2,000 km ².

Location

The city is located about 20 km southwest of the county seat of Pécs on the highway 6 after Szigetvár (18 km) in a flat, agrarian environment. Only a few kilometers northeast of the landscape to the Mecsek Mountains rises towering over the vast Pannonian plain by about 400 m.

The geographical coordinates of the location are approached 46.1 ° North and 18.0 ° East, the sea level is about 150 meters.

History

In the mid-18th century, the administrative center was built for the goods of the Duke Miklós Esterházy in Szentlőrinc. Its baroque palace, built 1696-1717 and later extended several times, is located on the sprawling church square ( Templom tér ). The Catholic rectory and the Baroque church were around 1718 - shortly after the castle - complete. The church stands today because of their special construction under monument protection, but their establishment dates from the 19th century.

The Koncz - Brantner - house in the Munkácsy Mihály utca was built in the 18th century and was the home of the estate manager of the Esterházy family. Today it houses a large, publicly accessible private collection. Furthermore, the city has a new, comprehensive history museum ( in downtown Passage ) where finds of archeology and themes of geography and ethnology are issued.

Events

The church festival ( fair ) begins each year on 10 August. The " Lawrence Days" include numerous cultural events and a street ball. Regularly also an agricultural fair takes place, the "Day of the farmers " ( Gazdanapok ). The fair is the most important agricultural event of Baranya County.

The beach of the resort is loaded with 36 ° C hot thermal water.

Larger towns

• Within a radius up to 50 km from the towns of Komló, Pécs, Pécsvárad, Sellye, Szigetvár, Kaposvar, Barcs and the Croatian cities Virovitica and Donji Miholjac.

Swell

• Magyarország ( road map 1:200,000 ), Marco Polo Publisher