Körmend (
Prekmurje Slovene
Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, Eastern Slovene, or Wendish (, , Prekmurje Slovene: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmörski jezik, panonska slovenščina''), is the language of Prekmurje in Easte ...
: ''Karmadén,'' ) is a town in
Vas County
Vas (, ; ; or ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') of Hungary. It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It is part of the Centrope Project.
Geography
Vas County lies in weste ...
, Western
Hungary
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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 an ancient and distinguished Hungarian noble magnate family. The Head of the family bears the title Prince (Fürst) of Batthyány-Strattmann, while other members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf ...
family, one of the most important
aristocrat
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families of Hungary.
Blessed Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann (1870–1931), a famous
ophthalmologist
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a ...
who was beatified by the
Catholic Church
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, 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, association football club
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BC Körmend, basketball club
Notable people
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Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann (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 (1928–2001), actor of the National Theatre
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Péter Besenyei (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, Finland
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Fürstenfeld, Austria
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Kranenburg, Germany
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Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
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Pivdenne, 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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