Gyöngyössolymos is a village in

Heves County Heves county (, ) 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 (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

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, beside of the Gyöngyös creek, under the

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mountain ranges. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 2820 (see Demographics). The village located 4.6 km from (Nr. 85) Vámosgyörk–Gyöngyös railway line, 5.2 km from the main road 3 and 12.1 km from the

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. The closest train station with public transport in

Gyöngyös Gyöngyös is a town in Heves County, Hungary, beside of the Gyöngyös creek, under the Mátra mountain ranges. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 27,957 (see Demographics). The town is located 8.4 km from the M3 motorway and 80.8 km ...

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, but a

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line also going across the village.

History

Based on archaeological findings, the area was already inhabited in the

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. The first written mention of it dates from 1212, when King Andrew II donated an estate in the village to the

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. The settlement was owned by the Solymosy family, which built the settlement's church in the 14th century. The sources refer to the settlement as ''Solomus, Sumus, Solimus''. A certificate from 1320 mentions the ''Dezsővár'' built by Dezső Solymosy north of the village, the ruins of which have not survived. The church was rebuilt in the

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between 1769 and 1772, and its furnishings are in the

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style of the 19th century. The economic life of the village was determined by the mill industry from the 18th century, a

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in the basement, which is now a museum, preserves the memory of this. Increased

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activity justified the construction of the first

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line to the Nagy valley in 1906, and the connecting line with

was built in 1918. Most of the lines were , and now only one line remains, which leads to the ''Szalajka House'' and operates for . A wildlife showing place, a spring and an

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have been established around the house. The Szalajka House was a former glass huta 8,7 km far from the village by railway and 4,1 km far from

Mátraszentimre Mátraszentimre () is a village in Heves County, Hungary, in the Mátra mountain range, between the Darázs, Teréz and Nagy-Átal-kő mountains. The Galya-tető peak is inside of the village territory, east from the center. As of 2022 census, it ...

on marked hiking trail.

Demographics

According the 2022 census, 91.5% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity, 0.7% were

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, and 8.1% were did not wish to answer. The religious distribution was as follows: 40.1%

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, 3.4%

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, 0.6%

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, 10.1% non-denominational, and 42.4% did not wish to answer. 12 people live in an outskirt 1.0 km away of the village. Population by years:

Politics

''Mayors since 1990'': * 1990–2006: László Lukács (independent) * 2006–2014: Gyula Zsolt Szolcsák (independent) * 2014–2019: Zsuzsanna Nádudvari, Mrs. Nyilas (independent) * 2019–2024: Miklós Asztalos (independent) * 2024: Gyula Zsolt Szolcsák (independent)

References

Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub