Kiszombor is a more than 800 years old

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Csongrád County Csongrád ( ro, Ciongrad; tr, Conğrad sr, Чонград, Čongrad, archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd'') is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the ...

, in the

Southern Great Plain The Southern Great Plain ( hu, Dél-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes three counties: * Bács-Kiskun * Békés * Csongrád-Csanád See ...

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of southern

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Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 3795 people (2015). It is an agricultural village, near the

Maros River Maros is a town in the South Sulawesi province of Indonesia close to the provincial capital of Makassar. It is the capital of the Maros Regency. Maros is the location of the Indonesian Cereals Research Institute, a branch of the Indonesian ...

. There is a border-crossing point into Romania near the village, where the first village is

Cenad Cenad ( hu, Nagycsanád, during the Dark Ages ''Marosvár''; german: Tschanad; sr, Чанад, Čanad; la, Chanadinum) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Cenad. The village serves as a customs point on t ...

. There is a village-festival on the third weekend of September every year. A number of Hungarian artists appear, play, sing, dance and so on.

Sightseeing for visitors

In the village a number of old architectural heritage from the

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can be seen.

Churches

Rotunda (Szent István tér) The rotunda was built in the 12th century with a circular ground plan outside and with sixfold arched inside. There are only 3 such churches in

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, all 3 in the late

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

(and in the

Carpathian Basin The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large basin situated in south-east Central Europe. The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense, with only th ...

), in the east part of it: Kiszombor, Gerény and

Karcsa Karcsa is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine t ...

. Relatives of this rotunda-type could be found in the

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. The

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s were painted in the 14th century and 18th century. In 1776 a

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church was attached to the rotunda, later in 1910 a big

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was attached to it, the rotunda used to be their

chapel A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...

. File:Kiszombor, körtemplom.jpg, Rotunda, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor-rotunda02.JPG, Inside, Rotunda File:Kiszombor-rotunda03.JPG, Frescos, inside, Rotunda File:Kiszombor - Rotunda - falrészlet.jpg, Details, inside, Rotunda File:Kiszombor - Rotunda - falkép.jpg, Fresco, inside, Rotunda

It was built in Neoromanesque art in 1910 after demolishing the old church in

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. File:IMG 1081 Kiszombor templom.jpg, Roman Catholic Church, Kiszombor

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Rónay big mansion (Móricz Zsigmond u. 1–3.) It was built in

around 1858. There is a 3-storey rampart-like tower on the short west side. Its park was destroyed during the

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. File:Kiszombor - Palace.jpg, Rónay big mansion, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor, Rónay-kastély, déli oldal.jpg, South side, Rónay big mansion, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor, Rónay-kastély, északi oldal.jpg, North side, Rónay big mansion, Kiszombor Rónay mansion (Szegedi u. 1/B) The mansion was built around 1835 in

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. Its designer is unknown. The building was restored in 2005, showing its old beauty, and operates as a restaurant under the nam
Rónay kúria
File:Kiszombor, Rónay-kúria, keleti oldal.jpg, East side, Rónay mansion, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor, Rónay-kúria, nyugati oldal.jpg, West side, Rónay mansion, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor, Rónay-kúria, magtár.jpg, Granary, Rónay mansion, Kiszombor Rónay Tibor mansion (Szent István tér 2.) File:Kiszombor, Rónay Tibor kúriája, keleti oldal.jpg, East side, Rónay Tibor mansion, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor, Rónay Tibor kúriája, nyugati oldal.jpg, West side, Rónay Tibor mansion, Kiszombor

Granary A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most often made of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animal ...

Granary with

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

(Óbébai u. 2.) The building in

was built around 1835. This granary designed and constructed with style is unique in

. File:Kiszombor, emeletes magtár.jpg, Multi-storey granary with portico, Kiszombor File:Kiszombor, emeletes magtár 2.jpg, Multi-storey granary with portico, Kiszombor

References

* Aradi N. (Ed.): A művészet története Magyarországon. (The History of Arts in Hungary). Gondolat, Budapest * Fülep L. (Ed.): A magyarországi művészet története. (The History of the Hungarian Arts). Budapest * Gerevich T.: ''Magyarország románkori emlékei''. (Die romanische Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest, 1938. * Gerő L. : ''Magyar műemléki ABC''. Budapest, 1984 * Gervers-Molnár, V. (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest * Henszlmann, I. (1876): ''Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése'', (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest * Marosi E.: ''A román kor művészete'', (Art of the Romanesque Ages). Corvina, Budapest, 1972, * Szilágyi A. (2008): A Kárpát-medence Árpád-kori rotundái és centrális templomai. (The Rotunda and Central Building Churches in the Carpathian Basin.) Semmelweis Kiadó, Budapest

External links

* in Hungarian
Restaurant Rónay kúria
{{authority control Populated places in Csongrád-Csanád County Romanesque architecture in Hungary Hungary–Romania border crossings