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Feldebrő is a village in
Heves county Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun-S ...
in
Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...
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Feldebrő stands in the valley of the Tarna River, at the southeastern foot of the
Mátra The Mátra ( sk, Matra) is a mountain range in northern Hungary, between the towns Gyöngyös and Eger. The country's highest peak, Kékestető (1014 m), belongs to this mountain range. The Mátra is part of the North Hungarian Mountains a ...
Mountains. Nearby villages include Vécs,
Aldebrő Aldebrő is a village in Heves County, Hungary, beside of the Tarna River. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 675 (see Demographics). The village located beside of the (Nr. 84) Kisterenye–Kál-Kápolna railway line and 3,8 km far from t ...
,
Tófalu Tófalu is a village in Heves County, Hungary. 35 Jews lived in the village in 1880 and in 1944 about 20 of them were murdered in the Holocaust of the Jews of Hungary. In 1950 the village merged with the village of Aldebrő Aldebrő is a vill ...
, Kerecsend,
Egerszólát Egerszólát is a small village in Heves county, in the north-eastern part of Hungary, west of Eger. It is located in Eger wine region and is famous in Hungary for its white wine called 'Egerszóláti Olaszrizling Egerszóláti Olaszrizling is ...
, and Verpelét. The village belongs to the Archdiocese of
Eger Eger ( , ; ; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights. Eger is best known for its castle, thermal baths, baroque bu ...
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Origin of the name of the village

The name of the village comes from the Hungarian word debrő "broad valley." It may be related to the Slavic dialect term debra "floodplain."


Sightseeing

During the Árpád period the village belonged to the Aba family. It may have been one of that family's principle seats, given that a Hungarian king was buried in the church. The original church in the form of a Greek cross was built in the 11th century; it contained the tomb of King
Samuel Aba of Hungary Samuel Aba ( hu, Aba Sámuel; before 990 or 1009 – 5 July 1044) reigned as King of Hungary between 1041 and 1044. He was born to a prominent family with extensive domains in the region of the Mátra Hills. Based on reports in the ''Gesta ...
. The building was later transformed into a three-nave church, but the original crypt was preserved.


References

* Henszlmann, Imre (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 * Gerő, László (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. (Hungarian Architectural Heritage ABC.) Budapest * Gerevich Tibor: Magyarország románkori emlékei. (Die romanischen Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest, 1938.


External links


Feldebrő Official Homepage

European vine tours poratl

Feldebrő on Vendégváró homepage

Feldebrő in the szeporszag.hu homepage

Aerial photos

Feldebrő – railway station
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