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In the Hungarian folk diet, boiled pretzel is one of the festive dishes, known in many parts of the country. Especially famous was the pretzel from the Rábaköz region, the preparation of which was more widespread in the Transdanubian…

The tarhonya is a typical lowland pasta dish, more precisely from the Southern Great Plain, which has spread and become popular throughout the Hungarian food culture. Its origins in the diet of the Hungarian people date back to the Middle…

The knotted lace, similar to the ancient method of making fishing nets still in use today, but with a decorative function, originally from Asia, spread in Europe during the Renaissance and can be seen as a forerunner of the artistic lace…

Hódmezővásárhely’s vast outdoor area harbours extremely good quality clay, which can be used to make good quality bricks. Brick was therefore used for major construction projects from the very beginning, and our earliest – partially…

The 23,000-hectare Puszta of Hódmezővásárhely is one of the sunniest areas in Hungary. Its intact vegetation dates back some three thousand years. Today, 229 species of birds – 68% of the Hungarian bird fauna – occur in the Kardoskút White…

The first photographic studio in Hódmezővásárhely was founded in 1869 by Illés Plohn, who took photographs of the developing Vásárhely, capturing people’s everyday life. The studio was taken over by his son József Plohn in 1887, who,…

The zither has become an integral part of their folk tradition – folk music – over the past nearly 100 years. In the way it is made, tuned and used, it reflects a particular Hungarian taste and demand. We do not know much about the makers…

1. Local history collection of the Németh László Municipal Library. In a broad sense, it collects all materials related to the town of Vásárhely. Thus, books and documents related to natural conditions (soil and climate, flora and fauna),…

The reading circle was a civil organisation founded in Hungary in the second half of the 19th century, which aimed at the education of its members, the expansion of their knowledge, the exchange of ideas and common entertainment. They…

The most popular cake in the folk diet of the 19th century in the whole of the Great Plain, and thus the most famous dish of the time in Vásárhely, was the cottage cheese tart, which was considered the prince of food here. It had a…

In the industrial life of Hódmezővásárhely, ceramics has played a decisive role in the past centuries as well as today. In the 19th century, small pottery workshops developed the folk ceramics tradition, on which, in the 20th century,…

The protected landscape area is located in line with Hódmezővásárhely, on the left bank of the Tisza. The landscape of Mártély is perhaps the most beautiful landscape of the southern part of the Tisza: oxbow lakes, bogs, wet meadows,…

The first pieces of the „furry pillowcases” of Vásárhely were collected in 1904 by Lajos Kiss, later a prominent ethnographer of the town, for the ethnographic room of the industrial and agricultural exhibition held here. Later, similar…

The Kankalin Folk Dance Ensemble was founded in 1962 under the leadership of Istvánné B. Szűcs and has been operating in Hódmezővásárhely ever since. More than half a century ago, the founder of the ensemble set the goal of cultivating,…

From the second half of the 19th century, paprikash was an essential part of the festive diet in Hódmezővásárhely, which was then „the favourite food of rich and poor alike.” Here, they did not cook stew but paprikash, which was…

The local dumplings, means derelye, or dörőlye (as it is known in the local dialect), is an old dish of Hungarian cuisine, but it has been known by this name only since the end of the 18th century. It played an important role in the diet…

The bag soup is one of the old, popular dishes of Hódmezővásárhely, which was prepared by the older women a few decades ago, but nowadays it has disappeared from the selection of everyday dishes. It is made from flour, eggs, salt and…

Our local vocabulary was the Ö(øː)-ző language, spread over a large area of the Great Plain, in islands that converged, but there wOur local vocabulary was the Ö(øː)-ző language, spread over a large area of the Great Plain, in islands that…