Lengyeltóti is a town in
Somogy county, Hungary.
The settlement is part of the
Balatonboglár wine region
The Balatonboglár wine region, also known as the South Balaton wine region, is the only one wine region in Somogy County, Hungary. The area consists of 37 settlements, mainly located on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, but also some near Kap ...
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A Balatonboglári borvidék hegyközségi tanácsának alapszabálya (PDF)
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The town can be found south from Fonyód, along the highway to Somogyvár
Somogyvár () is a village in Somogy County, Hungary.
Geography
It is situated south from Lengyeltóti, between Lengyeltóti, Öreglak and Somogyvámos.
History
It is a historical tradition that, after the death of Géza, Grand Prince of the H ...
, the old seat of the county. The highway went from the Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton () is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the List of largest lakes of Europe, largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the larges ...
to the southern part of the country. The town sits on the top of a hill. Its name: Tóti meant Slavonic people in Hungarian, so probably the old village was populated partly by Slavonic people. First charters mention the village in 1116.
Historical sights
The Lengyeltóti Roman Catholic Church is an extraordinary heritage. In the 90s it was known only as a modern times church in eclectic style. During the renovation in 1989 it turned out that walls of an Árpád age church can be found in the southern part of the eclectic new church.
The archeological restoration revealed the 12th-century church with pair of western towers and three apses in the east side of the east–west nave. The architectural markers date the church back to the 1100 years. The village name had not been mentioned in the list of 1333 Roman Pope episcopal church tax collection, so it is probable that some of the orders at that time in Hungary owned the monastery church.
Twin towns — sister cities
Lengyeltóti is twinned with:
* Lupeni
Lupeni (; German: ''Schylwolfsbach'', Hungarian: ''Lupény'') is a mining city in the Jiu Valley in Hunedoara County, Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. It is one of the oldest and largest cities in the Jiu Valley. It is located ...
, Romania
* Dielheim, Germany
* Węgierska Górka, Poland
* Lechnica, Slovakia
* Đurđevac
Đurđevac is a town in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia.
History
Until 1918, Đurđevac (named ''Militär Sanct Georgen'' before 1850) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in ...
, Croatia
External links
Image and history of the Lengyeltóti churchImages of the Romanesque church of LengyeltótiStreet map
References
Populated places in Somogy County
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
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