Kővágóörs () is a village in
Veszprém county
Veszprém (, ; ) is an administrative county (''vármegye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county.
Veszprém county
Veszprém county lies in western Hungary. It covers the Bakony hills and the norther ...
,
Hungary
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. It is one of the largest settlements in the
Káli basin. It has 914 inhabitants (2001).
History
Kővágóörs is landscape protection area, built on a unique
geological
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formation, the fossil sand hill of the
Pannon-age Sea.
Stone was quarried throughout centuries here. Excellent millstones (raw material of bastions and buildings) could be prepared from this kind of stone, thus the first part of the name of the village - "''stone cutting''" ("''kővágó''").
Today people call this phenomenon of nature the “''sea of stones''”.
The second part of the town's name originates from the ''Örs'' clan. This area was the clan's principal territory at the time of
Árpád’s conquest of Hungary, accordingly Kővágóörs was seat of “alispán” or “
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” (
comes
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).
Three surrounding medieval villages (Ecser, Sóstókál, and Kisörs) were destroyed at the time of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the ruins of their respective churches can be seen nearby.
The poet
Mihály Barla
Mihály Barla Slovene ''Miháo Barla'' (circa 1778 – February 4, 1824) was a Slovenian Lutheran pastor, writer, and poet.
He was born in Murska Sobota. He studied in Sopron, in the Evangelical Lyceum, by 1803 studied in the University of Jena. ...
lived here.
Sights
* The village has two churches: the older one nowadays used by Lutheran people was built in 1264 and was renovated in Baroque style in the 18th century; the Baroque Catholic church built in front of the Lutheran one was consecrated in 1802.
* The “''sea of stones''” (read more about it in the history of Kővágóörs)
* Museum of
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre
People
*
Mihály Barla
Mihály Barla Slovene ''Miháo Barla'' (circa 1778 – February 4, 1824) was a Slovenian Lutheran pastor, writer, and poet.
He was born in Murska Sobota. He studied in Sopron, in the Evangelical Lyceum, by 1803 studied in the University of Jena. ...
*
Rudolf Czipott, lived here
*
Samuel Gold, a Jewish chess player, born here
Sources
*
Somogyi Győző -
Szelényi Károly „The Kál Basin by Lake Balaton” 1992
External links
*
Hungarian Wikipedia article
Street map (Hungarian)
References
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Populated places in Veszprém County