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Lillafüred Forest Railway
Lillafüred (Miskolc-Lillafüred) is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary. Officially, it is a part of Miskolc, though it is almost 12 kilometres away from the city, in the Bükk Mountains. Lillafüred is a tourist resort. History Count András Bethlen of the Bethlen family, who served as Hungary's Minister of Agriculture in the 1890s, initiated the development of a holiday resort near Lake Hámori. He named it after his niece, Erzsébet (nicknamed: "Lilla") Vay, a member of the Vay family and sister of Elemér Vay, the count of Borsod County at the time. The Lillafüred Palace Hotel, a central feature of the resort, was later constructed by István Bethlen. Tourist attractions Lillafüred Palace Hotel (Palotaszálló) The Lillafüred Palace Hotel was designed by Kálmán Lux and built between 1927 and 1930 in neo-Renaissance style. One of the hotel's restaurants is named after King Matthias. Its stained glass windows show the castles of historical Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kálmán Lux
Kálmán is an ancient Germanic origin Hungarian surname and male given name. Outside Hungary, the name occurs sometimes in the form Kalman. It was derived from the Germanic name: Koloman, Coloman or Kolman. The Germanic name Coloman has been used by Germans since the 9th century. Kalman ( in Yiddish and Hebrew, occasionally spelled Calman in Roman letters) is also a Yiddish given name that is a short form of the Greco-Jewish name Kalonymos (, meaning "beautiful name", a reference to a miracle worked in God's name). Sometimes the long form and short forms are used together, as in the compound name Kalman Kalonymos. A nickname for Kalman is in Yiddish Kalma or Kalme. The Yiddish and Hungarian names are a convergence with separate origins (the Yiddish name first appearing in the Rhineland in the middle ages with the famed Kalonymos family). People with the name Kalman or Kálmán include: Surname * Attila Kálmán (born 1968), Hungarian organist and pianist * Dan Kalman (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottó Herman Museum
The Ottó Herman Museum is the largest museum in Miskolc, Hungary. It holds more than 600,000 artifacts. Its main focus is on archaeology, mineralogy, arts, history, and ethnography. History The museum was founded in 1899 under the name Borsod-Miskolcz Museum (Borsod is the historical county whose capital is Miskolc, and Miskolcz is an archaic spelling of the name of the city.) It became state property in 1949. The museum took the name of the famous polymath Ottó Herman in 1953. Since 1963, it collects artifacts not only from Miskolc and Borsod, but from the whole unified Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. Exhibition sites belonging to the Ottó Herman Museum The museum has several buildings both in Miskolc and in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. The one near Erzsébet square in Miskolc is the oldest. It hosts the mineral collection. The main building on Görgey street was built in 1952; it holds the arts museum, library, and storerooms. The Pannonian Sea Museum is one of the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottó Herman
Ottó Herman born Herrmann Károly Ottó (26 June 1835 – 27 December 1914) was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, journalist, and politician. A polymath recognized as a pioneer of Hungarian natural history research, he made numerous studies on Hungarian spiders, birds, and fishes, and founded the journal ''Natural History Notebooks'' and the ornithological journal '' Aquila''. He is called "''the Father of the birds''" in Hungary. A member of several learned societies including the Royal Hungarian Society of Natural History, Hungarian Linguistics Society, Hungarian Society of Ethnography, he was elected to the Hungarian Parliament. The Ottó Herman Museum of Miskolc was named after him. Biography Herrman was born in Breznóbánya, Kingdom of Hungary (modern day Slovakia) into a Zipser German family. His father Károly Herrmann was a surgeon in the mines and his mother Franciska Ganzstuck was from Hammersberg. He started his schooling at the Lutheran Gymnasiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleolithic Religion
Paleolithic religions are a set of spiritual beliefs and practices that are theorized to have appeared during the Paleolithic time period. Paleoanthropologists Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Annette Michelson believe unmistakably religious behavior emerged by the Upper Paleolithic, before 30,000 years ago at the latest,Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Annette Michelson, "The Religion of the Caves: Magic or Metaphysics?", ''The MIT Press'', Vol, 37, October 1986, pp. 6–17. "cave art born 30,000 years before our era ... would appear to have developed simultaneously with the first explicit manifestations of concern with the supernatural." (p. 6) but behavioral patterns such as burial rites that one might characterize as religious — or as ancestral to religious behavior — reach back into the Middle Paleolithic, as early as 300,000 years ago, coinciding with the first appearance of ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and possibly ''Homo naledi''. Religious behavior is one of the hallmarks of behavio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dripstone Cave
Dripstone may refer to: *Hood mould or dripstone, an architectural feature for handling rain water * Dripstone, a type of speleothem (cave formation) that includes for example stalactites * Dripstone, a type of water filter A water filter removes impurities by lowering contamination of water using a fine physical barrier, a chemical process, or a biological process. Filters cleanse water to different extents, for purposes such as: providing agricultural irrigation, ... made of porous stone * Dripstone, New South Wales {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Cave
The István Cave (''Stephen I of Hungary, St. Stephen's Cave'') is a limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Northern Hungary. The cave was formed in the Triassic period and is about 710 m long. It was discovered in 1913. According to local legend, a dog fell into a 15-metre deep shaft, which was the cave's only natural opening. People found the cave when they rescued the dog. Cavers began to explore the cave in 1927. Another entrance was made for the tourists, and in 1931 the cave was opened to the public. During World War II, the cave was damaged, with many of the stalagmites and stalactites were broken by people seeking refuge from airstrike, air raids. The lighting was repaired only in 1955, and the cave was opened to the public again. The cave is still being explored, but only a part can be visited. Its deepest known area is named ''Hell''. The most beautiful dripstone structures are the ''Mammut's Mouth'', ''Fairyland'', ''Column Hall'' and ''Concert Hall''. Due to water fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Cave
The Anna Cave (also called ''Petőfi Cave'') is a natural limestone cave in Miskolc- Lillafüred, Hungary, near the waterfall. The cave was discovered in 1833, when opening a shaft in the limestone in order to provide the iron furnace at Hámor with water. It soon became a tourist attraction, even Sándor Petőfi visited it in 1847. However, in the second part of the century, when the iron furnaces were closed, the cave was forgotten. It was opened again in 1912. In 1927, when the Palace Hotel was built, new caverns were found. The entrance that's used today was constructed then. The cave has not only limestone structures, but also plant fossils. The cave can be visited all year round. See also * István Cave, a large dripstone cave Dripstone may refer to: *Hood mould or dripstone, an architectural feature for handling rain water * Dripstone, a type of speleothem (cave formation) that includes for example stalactites * Dripstone, a type of water filter A water filter rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garadna
Garadna is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary, in the Encs District. Etymology The name comes from Slavic/Early Slovak adjective ''gradná'' - "belonging to the castle", "an extramural settlement". The name was adopted by Hungarians before the spiratization of Slavic /g/ to /h/. See e.g. Veľká Hradná (Slovakia). History Archeologists found evidences of Neolithic and Imperial Roman German settlements and a former Celtic cemetery. Ploughshares has been found which has been used at the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. There were at least two settlements called Garadna. The first village was first mentioned in 1234 as Grathna and Gradna (Granna), later Fel Garadna and Petri. It was located somewhere near the present-day Hernádvécse and Hernádszurdok, and was owned by Péter, son of Houl. The second village was founded near the present location of the village and it was the possession of the people of the nearby Sárvár. King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szinva
Szinva is a stream in northern Hungary, a tributary to the river Sajó. It originates in the Bükk Mountains. It is long, of which can be found in the city of Miskolc, through which the stream flows from west to east. More than 70 bridges have been built over the stream, and it flows underground in parts of the city centre. The damming of the streams Szinva and Garadna (stream), Garadna formed Lake Hámori in Lillafüred, Miskolc-Lillafüred around 1770. The highest waterfalls of the country (20 metres high) can be found on the Szinva nearby. It is a major tourist attraction. Since the water of most of the water springs of the stream are fed into the water supply system of the city, and the upper reaches of the stream often run dry in summer, water has to be pumped from the lake for the waterfalls to work. Garadna flows into Szinva about after the waterfall. The Szinva was responsible for the Flood in Miskolc, 1878, great flood of 1878, one of the largest floods of the 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanging Gardens
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World listed by Hellenic culture. They were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks. It was said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq. The Hanging Gardens' name is derived from the Greek word (, ), which has a broader meaning than the modern English word "hanging" and refers to trees being planted on a raised structure such as a terrace. According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as ''The Marvel of Mankind'', by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC), for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. This was attested to by the Babylonian priest Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
