Körmend ( sl, Kermendin,
Prekmurje Slovene
Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, East Slovene, or Wendish ( sl, prekmurščina, prekmursko narečje, hu, vend nyelv, muravidéki nyelv, Prekmurje dialect: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmör ...
: ''Karmadén,'' ger, Kirment) is a town in
Vas county , Western
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 to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
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Places of interest
The town is especially well known for its castle which used to belong to the
Batthyány
The House of Batthyány () is the name of an ancient and distinguished Hungarian Magnate family. Members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf/Gräfin) Batthyány von Német-Ujvar respectively, while the title of Prince (Fürst) vo ...
family, one of the most important
aristocrat families of Hungary.
Blessed Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann (1870–1931), a famous
ophthalmologist who was beatified by the
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
, lived in the castle with his family for nearly 10 years. He turned one of the wings of the castle into an ophthalmology clinic where he treated poor patients for free.
Today, the castle belongs to the Hungarian state.
Sport
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Körmendi FC
Körmendi Football Club is a professional football club based in Körmend, Vas County, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered ...
, association football club
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BC Körmend
BC Körmend, named Egis Körmend for sponsorship reasons, is a Hungarian professional basketball club, based in Körmend. The club was founded in 1962 and has won the domestic championship three times (1987, 1996, 2003) and the domestic cup seven ...
, basketball club
Notable people
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Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann
Edmund Gustavus, 6th Prince Batthyany-Strattmann (20 November 1826 – 29 October 1914), usually known in English as Count Batthyany, was a prince and count of the Holy Roman Empire, a landowner and yachtsman, and a notable figure in Europe and ...
(1826–1914), nobleman
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László Batthyány-Strattmann (1870–1931), doctor and nobleman
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Sándor Bejczy (1920–2004), politician
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Imre Sinkovits
Imre Sinkovits (21 September 1928 in Budapest – 18 January 2001 in Budapest) was a Hungarian actor.
Career
After a year in Downtown Theatre and another in Youth Theatre, in 1949 he got a job in National Theatre, where he stayed until ...
(1928–2001), actor of the National Theatre
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Péter Besenyei
Péter Besenyei (born 1956) is a Hungarian aerobatics pilot and world champion air racer.
Biography
He was born on 8 June 1956 in Körmend, Hungary. He lived near the airport of Budapest and became interested in flying when he was a child. F ...
(born 1956), aerobatic pilot
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Soulwave (formed 2007), alternative rock band
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Krisztián Pars (born 1982), hammer thrower
Twin towns – sister cities
Körmend is
twinned with:
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Heinävesi
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, Finland
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Fürstenfeld
Fürstenfeld (; hu, Fölöstöm) is a town and a district in southeastern Austria. It is situated within the Austrian federal state of Styria, near the border of Hungary.
According to the 2005 census, Fürstenfeld has 5,986 citizens within its c ...
, Austria
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Kranenburg, Germany
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Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (; german: Rosenau unter dem Radhoscht) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Rožnov pod Radhoštěm is made up of one administrativ ...
, Czech Republic
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, Ukraine
References
External links
* in Hungarian and German
Street map of KörmendKörmend in wiki.utikonyvem.hu
Populated places in Vas County
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