Szentgotthárd ( sl, Monošter; german: St. Gotthard) is the westernmost town of

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. It is situated on the

Rába The Rába (german: Raab; hu, Rába; sl, Raba ) is a river in southeastern Austria and western Hungary and a right tributary of the Danube. Geography Its source is in Austria, some kilometres east of Bruck an der Mur below Heubodenhöhe Hill. ...

River near the

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n border.

History

The town took its name from, and grew up round, the

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Szentgotthárd Abbey, founded here in 1183. In 1664, it was the site of the Battle of Saint Gotthard, where an

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army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli defeated the

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so that the Turks had to agree to the

Peace of Vasvár The Peace of Vasvár was a treaty between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire which followed the Battle of Saint Gotthard of 1 August 1664 (near Mogersdorf, Burgenland), and concluded the Austro-Turkish War (1663–64). It held for abou ...

, which held until 1683. A second Battle of Saint Gotthard in 1705 was a victory for Rákóczi's anti-Habsburg Hungarian rebels. During

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, Szentgotthárd was captured by

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troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front on 31 March 1945 in the course of the

Vienna Offensive The Vienna offensive was an offensive launched by the Soviet 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts in order to capture Vienna, Austria, during World War II. The offensive lasted from 16 March to 15 April 1945. After several days of street-to-street f ...

Notable people

Ferenc Joachim Ferenc Joachim (May 21, 1882 – September 16, 1964) was a Hungarian painter of portraits and landscapes in oil, watercolors and pastels on canvas, board and paper. He studied and painted in Budapest and Western Europe. As an untitled member ...

(1882–1964), painter *

Alajos Drávecz Alajos Drávecz ( sl, Alojz Dravec) (29 November 1866 – 28 August 1915) was a Slovenian ethnologist and writer. Born in Rábatótfalu (now Szentgotthárd). His parents were István Drávecz and Rozália Korpics. The young Drávecz and his wife ...

(1866–1915), Slovenian ethnologist and writer *

Ágoston Pável Ágoston Pável, also known in Slovenian as Avgust Pavel (28 August 1886, Cankova, Kingdom of Hungary, today in Slovenia – 2 January 1946, Szombathely, Hungary) was a Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian. E ...

(1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer and poet, graduated here *

János Brenner János (Anasztáz) Brenner (; 17 December 1931 – 15 December 1957) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest and professed member of the Cistercian Order. Brenner studied for the priesthood during a period of communist persecution of religious ...

(1931–1957), Roman Catholic priest, died here *

Irén Pavlics Irén Pavlics ( sl, Irena Pavlič) (15 November 1934 – 2 February 2022) was a Hungarian Slovene author and editor. Pavlics was born in the village of Rábatótfalu (today the suburb of Szentgotthárd), Hungary, in 1934. She graduated from S ...

(1934–2022), Hungarian Slovene author and editor * Tibor Gécsek (born 1964), hammer thrower *

Krisztián Pars Krisztián Pars (; born 18 February 1982) is a Hungarian hammer thrower. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008, and 2012, winning the gold medal in 2012. He also won the 2012 and 2014 European championships. Career His personal be ...

(born 1982), hammer thrower

Twin towns – sister cities

Szentgotthárd is twinned with: *

Delle Delle () is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France. Delle is the last French town on the railway line from Belfort to Berne, in Switzerland. The railway station in Delle is served by ...

, France *

Dilovası Dilovası is a town and district of Kocaeli Province in the Marmara region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on t ...

, Turkey * Frumoasa, Romania *

Izola Izola (; it, Isola ) is a town in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic coast of the Istrian peninsula. It is the seat of the Municipality of Izola. Its name originates from Italian ''Isola'', which means 'island'. History An ancient Roman ...

, Slovenia *

Lendava Lendava (; formerly ''Dolnja Lendava'', in older sources also ''Dolenja Lendava''; hu, Lendva, formerly ''Alsólendva''; german: Lindau, formerly ''Unter-Limbach'') is a town in Slovenia in the region of Prekmurje. It is the seat of the Municip ...

, Slovenia *

Tarvisio Tarvisio (German and fur, Tarvis, sl, Trbiž) is a comune in the northeastern part of the autonomous Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy. Geography The town is in the Canal Valley (''Val Canale'') between the Carnic Alps and Karawanks rang ...

, Italy *

Walldürn Walldürn is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 23 km southwest of Wertheim. The town of Walldürn consists of the ten districts Walldürn-Stadt, Altheim, Gerolzahn, Glashofen, Gottersdor ...

, Germany

References

External links

* in Hungarian, English, German and Slovenian
Page of Opel Hungary (Szentgotthárd plant)
Populated places in Vas County {{Hungary-hist-stub