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Losonc
Lučenec
Losonc
Hungarian:
Losonc
Slovak:
Lučenec
German:
Lizenz
Latin:
Lutetia Hungarorum
Historical Hungarian county:
Nógrád
Country:
Slovakia
District:
Banskobystrický kraj
River:
Kriványi Brook
Altitude:
186 m
GPS coordinates:
48.328499, 19.669265
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Population
Population:
28k
Hungarian:
13.1%
Population in 1910
| Total | 12939 |
|---|---|
| Hungarian | 82.18% |
| German | 3.3% |
| Slovak | 12.94% |
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The small Hungarian agricultural town is situated in the Nógrád Basin by the Krivány stream. It suffered much from the devastations of foreign invaders. In the middle of the 15th century it was captured by Czech marauders, who turned the church into their hideout. A hundred years later Turks captured the town. In 1849 during the Hungarian War of Independence the Russian intervention army burned it to ashes as a revenge for the resistance. In January 1919 the town, which was still inhabited by Hungarians, was invaded by the Czechoslovak Legion. The invaders tore down the statue of Kossuth Lajos, the leader of the Hungarian War of Independence, in a despicable way, under cover of night, and dragged it across the town. After the Second World War the Hungarian population, which had survived all hardships so far, was driven away by the barbaric conquerors.
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895
Arrival of the Hungarians
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895
The alliance of the seven Hungarian tribes took possession of the then largely uninhabited Carpathian Basin. Until then, the sparse Slavic population of the north-western Carpathians had lived under Moravian rule for a few decades after the collapse of the Avar Khaganate in the early 9th century.
1000
Foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom
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1000
The Kingdom of Hungary was established with the coronation of King Stephen I. He converted the Hungarians to Christianity and created two archdioceses (Esztergom and Kalocsa) and ten dioceses. He divided Hungary into counties led by ispáns, who were appointed by the king.
12th century
It belonged to the abbey of Losoncapátfalva.
1241-1242
Mongol Invasion
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1241-1242
The hordes of the Mongol Empire invaded Hungary and almost completely destroyed it. One third to one half of the population was destroyed. The Mongols also suffered heavy losses in the battle of Muhi and they could not hunt down the king. After their withdrawal, King Béla IV reorganized Hungary. He allowed the feudal lords to build stone castles because they were able to successfully resist the nomadic Mongols. The vast majority of stone castles were built after this. The king called in German, Vlach (Romanian) and Slavic settlers to replace the destroyed population.
1247
First mentioned. It was called Luchunch.
1301
The extinction of the House of Árpád
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1301
The House of Árpád, the first Hungarian royal dynasty, died out with the death of King Andrew III. Hungary was ruled by oligarchs, the most powerful of whom was Csák Máté, whose main ally was the Aba family. King Charles I (1308-1342), supported by the Pope, eventually emerged as the most prominent of the contenders for the Hungarian throne. But it took decades to break the power of the oligarchs.
1440
After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ulászló to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for László, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title "Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa", and gave him the castle of Zólyom.
1440-1441
The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).
1442
The Czech Hussite plunderers led by Jan Jiskra broke into the town.
1449–1450
A war was fought to drive out the Hussite marauders from Hungary with little success.
March 28, 1450
A peace was negotiated in Mezőkövesd, but Jiskra soon broke it.
September 7, 1451
Hunyadi János launched a campaign against Jiskra and the Hussites. The Hussites converted a monastery on the Saint King's hill near Losonc to a fort. Hunyadi besieged it. Jiskra left the castle of Gács to break the siege. Hunyadi hurried to fight him. At this moment the Hungarian army left behind to maintain the siege started to flee because of a betrayal (he had many rivals among the barons of Hungary). Hunyadi was attacked from both sides and was defeated.
1462
The army of King Matthias of Hungary, under the command of Szapolyai Imre and István defeated the Hussites. Soon their leader, Jiskra also surrendered and handed over his castles to the king.
1526
Battle of Mohács and the splitting of Hungary into two parts
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1526
Sultan Suleiman I launched a war against Vienna, instigated by the French. Ferdinand I, Duke of Austria, was the brother-in-law of King Louis II of Hungary. The army of the Ottoman Empire defeated the much smaller Hungarian army at Mohács, and King Louis II died in the battle. A group of the barons elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the throne, who promised to defend Hungary from the Turks. He was the younger brother of the most powerful European monarch Emperor Charles V. But the nobility chose the most powerful Hungarian baron, Szapolyai János, who was also crowned as King John I. The country was split in two and a decades-long struggle for power began.
1541
The Turkish occupation of the capital, Buda, and the division of Hungary into three parts
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1541
The Turks conquered Buda, the capital of Hungary, after the death of King John I. The central part of the country was under Turkish rule for 150 years. The western and northern parts (including present-day Slovakia) formed the Kingdom of Hungary ruled by the Habsburg emperors. The eastern parts (now mainly under Romanian rule) were ruled by the successors of King John I of Hungary, who later established the Principality of Transylvania.
1554
When the neighboring castle of Fülek fell to the Ottoman Empire, Losonc also came under Turkish rule.
1570
The establishment of the Principality of Transylvania
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1570
John II (John Sigismund), the son of King John I of Hungary, renounced the title of King of Hungary in favor of King Maximilian of the House of Habsburg, and henceforth held the title of Prince. This formally created the Principality of Transylvania, which was the eastern half of Hungary not ruled by the Habsburgs and was also a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. John II died in 1571, after which the three nations of Transylvania (the Hungarian nobility, the Székelys and the Saxons) elected the prince.
1593
Fülek was taken back from the Ottomans in the Fifteen Years' War by the Imperials. Losonc was also liberated.
1619
The campaign of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1619
At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania went to war against the Habsburg emperor as an ally of the rebelling Czech-Moravian-Austrian estates. The whole Kingdom of Hungary joined him, only the Austrian defenders of Pozsony had to be put to the sword. With his allies, he laid siege to Vienna. However, he was forced to abandon the siege because the Habsburg-loyal Hungarian aristocrat Homonnai Drugeth György attacked his heartland with Polish mercenaries. On 25 August 1620, the Diet of Besztercebánya elected Bethlen Gábor King of Hungary as vassal of the Turks. He continued to fight after the defeat of the Czechs at White Mountain on 8 November 1620, but without real chance to achieve decisive victory, he decided to come to an agreement with Emperor Ferdinand II.
1619
The town surrendered to Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania.
1621
Bethlen Gábor kept the Holy Crown of Hungary in the town.
31 December 1621
Peace of Nikolsburg
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31 December 1621
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand II. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and later it was supplemented with the freedom of religion. Bethlen renounced the title of King of Hungary in exchange for seven counties of the Upper Tisza region (Szabolcs, Szatmár, Bereg, Ugocsa, Zemplén, Borsod, Abaúj) for the rest of his life, other estates in Hungary as his private property and the imperial title of Duke of Oppeln and Ratibor (Opole and Racibórz), one of the Duchies of Silesia. Prince Bethlen went to war against the Habsburgs in 1623 and 1626, but was unable to negotiate more favourable terms.
1686
Recapture of Buda and the liberation of Hungary from the Turks
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1686
The army of the Holy League recaptured Buda from the Turks by siege. In 1687, the Imperial army invaded the Principality of Transylvania. The liberation was hindered by the French breaking their promise of peace in 1688 and attacking the Habsburg Empire. By 1699, when the Peace of Karlóca was signed, all of Hungary and Croatia had been liberated from the Ottoman Empire with the exception of Temesköz, the area bounded by the Maros, the Tisza and the Danube rivers. It was not until the Peace of Požarevac in 1718 that Temesköz was liberated from the Turks. However, the continuous war against the Turkish invaders and the Habsburg autocracy, which lasted for more than 150 years, wiped out large areas of the Hungarian population, which had previously made up 80% of the country's population, and was replaced by Vlachs (Romanians), Serbs and other Slavic settlers and Germans. The Habsburgs also favoured the settlement of these foreign peoples over the 'rebellious' Hungarians.
1686
The town was liberated from the Turks.
1703-1711
Hungarian War of Independence led by Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II
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1703-1711
After the expulsion of the Turks, the Habsburgs treated Hungary as a newly conquered province and did not respect its constitution. The serfs rose up against the Habsburg ruler because of the sufferings caused by the war and the heavy burdens, and they invited Rákóczi Ferenc II to lead them. Trusting in the help promised by King Louis XIV of France, he accepted. Rákóczi rallied the nobility to his side, and soon most of the country was under his control. The rebels were called the kurucs. In 1704, the French and the Bavarians were defeated at the Battle of Blenheim, depriving the Hungarians of their international allies. The Rusyn, Slovak and Vlach peasants and the Saxons of Szepes supported the fight for freedom, while the Serbs in the south and the Saxons in Transylvania served the Habsburgs. Due to lack of funds Rákóczi could not raise a strong regular army, and in 1710, Hungary was also hit by a severe plague. Rákóczi tried unsuccessfully to forge an alliance with Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. In his absence, without his knowledge, his commander-in-chief, Károlyi Sándor, accepted Emperor Joseph I's peace offer. The Peace of Szatmár formally restored the Hungarian constitution and religious freedom and granted amnesty, but did not ease the burden of serfdom. Rákóczi refused to accept the pardon and went into exile. He died in Rodosto, Turkey.
June 1755
Most of the town was destroyed on a fire.
from 1785
It gained the status of an oppidum (agricultural town).
1848-1849
Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
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1848-1849
Following the news of the Paris Revolution on 22 February 1848, the Hungarian liberal opposition led by Kossuth Lajos demanded the abolition of serfdom, the abolition of the tax exemption of the nobility, a parliament elected by the people, and an independent and accountable national government. The revolution that broke out in Pest on 15 March expressed its demands in 12 points, which, in addition to the above mentioned, included the freedom of the press, equality before the law, the release of the political prisoners and the union with Transylvania. A Hungarian government was formed, Batthyány Lajos became prime minister, and on 11 April Emperor Ferdinand V ratified the reform laws. On August 31 the Emperor demanded the repeal of the laws threatening with military intervention. In September the Emperor unleashed the army of Jelacic, Ban of Croatia, on Hungary, but they were defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Pákozd on 29 September. An open war began for the independence of Hungary. The Habsburgs incited the nationalities against the Hungarians. The Rusyns, the Slovenes and most of the Slovaks and Germans supported the cause persistently, but the Vlachs (Romanians) and the Serbians turned against the Hungarians. The glorious Spring Campaign in 1849 led by General Görgei Artúr liberated almost all of Hungary. On 1 May 1849, Emperor Franz Joseph, effectively admitting defeat, asked for the help of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who sent an intervention army of 200,000 soldiers against Hungary. The resistance became hopeless against the overwhelming enemy forces and on 13 August Görgei Artúr surrendered to the Russians at Világos. Bloody reprisals followed, and on 6 October 1849, 12 generals and a colonel of the Hungarian Revolution, the martyrs of Arad, were executed in Arad. On the same day, Batthyány Lajos, the first Hungarian Prime Minister, was executed by firing squad in Pest. The Habsburgs introduced total authoritarianism in Hungary, but they also failed to fulfil their promises to the nationalities that had betrayed the Hungarians.
March 24, 1849
Beniczky Lajos defeated the Imperial troops stationed in Losonc in a raid.
August 1, 1849
A squad of 90 Russian soldiers arrived in Losonc. The officers were having breakfast at the Dragon Tavern, when a group of 150 guerrillas attacked them. They shot down three officers and took many captives.
August 9, 1849
The Russian troops of Grabbe set the town on fire as a revenge after having suffered a defeat at Gesztely from the Hungarian general Leiningen-Westerburg Károly on the 28th of July.
1867
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
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1867
The Habsburg Empire was weakened by the defeats it suffered in the implementation of Italian and German unity. The Hungarians wanted to return to the reform laws of 1848, but they did not have the strength to do so. Emperor Franz Joseph and the Hungarian opposition, led by Deák Ferenc, finally agreed to restructure the Empire and abolish absolutism. Hungary was given autonomy in its internal affairs, with its own government and parliament, which was essential for the development of its economy and culture. However, foreign and military affairs remained in the hands of the Habsburgs and served their aspiration for becoming a great power. The majority wanted Hungary's independence, but they were excluded from political power.
1871
Losonc got a railway connection from Budapest on the Fülek - Losonc - Zólyom - Ruttka line.
1914-1918
World War I
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1914-1918
As part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Hungary took part in the war on the side of the Central Powers.
November 1918 - January 1919
The Czech, Romanian and Serbian occupation of Hungary
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November 1918 - January 1919
In Hungary, the freemasonic subversion brought the pro-Entente Károlyi Mihály to power. The new government, naively trusting the Entente powers, met all their demands and disbanded the Hungarian military, which rendered the country completely defenseless in the most dire need. Under French and Italian command, Czech, Romanian and Serbian troops invaded large parts of Hungary, where they immediately began the takeover. They fired Hungarian railway workers, officials and teachers, banned the use of the Hungarian language, abolished Hungarian education, and disposed of everything that reminded them of the country's Hungarian past. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were forced to leave their homeland, and the forcible assimilation of the remaining Hungarians was begun.
January 3, 1919
The Czechoslovaks invaded Losonc.
January 8, 1919
The Czechoslovak invaders tore down the statue of Kossuth Lajos by a rope. The head of the statue broke off in the process, and afterwards the statue was dragged across the town and put in the stables of the artillery barracks.
21 March - 1 August 1919
Communist takeover and the Northern Campaign
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21 March - 1 August 1919
After the Entente put vast areas with a Hungarian population under foreign administration, the pro-Entente government resigned and the traitorous Prime Minister Károlyi Mihály handed over power to the communists, who had little support anyway. They raised the Hungarian Red Army, which liberated large parts of northern Hungary from Czech occupation in the 'Northern Campaign'. The aim was to unite with the Russian Red Army, which ultimately failed because of the Russians' defeat. French Prime Minister Clemenceau promised the Jewish Kun Béla that he would recognise the Hungarian Soviet Republic and invite it to the peace conference if it would call back the army from northern Hungary. Calling back the army demoralized the soldiers, who fought for their homeland and not for communism. Clemenceau broke his promise and let the Romanian horde cross the Tisza River and capture Budapest.
May 30, 1919
The army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic took back Losonc from the Czechoslovak invaders.
4 June 1920
Trianon Dictate
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4 June 1920
Hungary was forced to sign the Treaty of Trianon, although the country was not invited to the peace talks. Hungary lost two thirds of its territory that had belonged to it for more than 1000 years. One-third of the Hungarian population came under foreign rule. On the basis of the national principle, countries with a more mixed and less ethnically balanced composition than the former Hungary were created, such as Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). For example, while 48% of the population of the territory ceded to Czechoslovakia was Slovak and 30% Hungarian, 54% of the population of the former Hungary was Hungarian and 10.6% Slovak. And in the territory that is now part of Serbia, the Hungarians outnumbered the Serbs. The part of the territory allocated to Romania from Hungary was larger than the remaining territory of Hungary, despite the fact that there were 10 million Hungarians and less than 3 million Romanians in the former Hungary. While Hungary used to have the most liberal nationality policy in Europe, the successor states had no respect at all for the national and cultural rights of the indigenous Hungarians and engaged in forced assimilation. The Trianon Dictate destroyed the organic economic unity of the region. Before the First World War, Hungary had a dynamic economy, more advanced than Spain's. After 1920, the successor states formed the so-called "Little Entente", putting Hungary under an economic blockade and sabotaging it on the international stage.
2 November 1938
First Vienna Award
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2 November 1938
Under the First Vienna Award, Hungary regained 11,927 km2 of territory from Czechoslovakia. Its population was 869 thousand people, 86.5% of whom were Hungarian. France and Great Britain did not take part in the decision taken by Germany and Italy, citing disinterest, but acknowledged its validity.
November 2, 1938
Losonc returned to Hungary according to the First Vienna Award.
Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
Soviet occupation
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Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
The Soviet Red Army occupied Hungary and Slovakia, which resulted in the recreation of Czechoslovakia.
5 April 1945
Beneš decrees and the persecution of Hungarians
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5 April 1945
In Hungarian-majority Kassa, the president of occupying Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, promulgated his government program, the so-called Beneš decrees. As part of this, the Hungarian population was deprived of their rights. Their complete expulsion was planned, with the support of the Soviet Union, and only the veto of the USA prevented it. Under the 'Reslavakization' programme, only those Hungarians who recognised themselves as Slovaks were allowed to regain their rights, thus renouncing all linguistic and cultural rights. In the violent expulsions that followed, nearly 200,000 Hungarians were deprived of their property and expelled from their homeland on the basis of their nationality.
1945
One of many internment camps where the Czechoslovaks gathered the native Hungarians and Germans they wanted to expel because of their nationality operated in Losonc.
1947
Paris Dictate
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1947
The Paris Dictate, in accordance with Soviet interests, did not recognise the just territorial revisions made by the two Vienna decisions and handed the reclaimed Hungarian-majority territories back to Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia, where the Hungarians were subjected to severe atrocities, expulsions and deprivation of rights. It also seceded three more villages south of Pozsony from Hungary to Czechoslovakia.
1 January 1993
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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1 January 1993
Czechoslovakia disintegrated due to ethnic differences between Czechs and Slovaks, shortly after the withdrawal of Soviet tanks. Slovakia was formed entirely from territory carved out of historic Hungary, and Slovak national identity is still largely based on falsified history and artificial hatred of Hungarians. Despite deportations, expulsions, forced assimilation and strong economic pressure, there are still nearly half a million Hungarians living in the country.
Source: Wikipedia, felvidek.ma , korkep.sk , arcanum.hu - Bánlaky József: A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme
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Churches, religious buildings
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Visitation
Kostol návštevy Panny Márie
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church
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church
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Roman Catholic
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Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Visitation
History
The church was built in 1783 in Baroque style upon an earlier Gothic church. The church was enlarged in 1792, and renovated in 1850 and in 1895.
Calvinist Church
Kalvínsky kostol
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church
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church
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Calvinist Church
History
Its predecessor was built by Lambert, Palatine of Hungary, the son of the daughter of King László I of Hungary. In the 15th century the leader of the Czech Hussite marauders, Jiskra, turned it into a fortified church. The Calvinists took it into their possession in 1608. The church was seriously damaged in August 1849, when the town was burned by the Russian troops, which were called in by the Habsburg ruler to intervene in the Hungarian War of Independence on his side. It was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style between 1851 and 1863 according to the plans of Wagner János. It was consecrated in 1864. At the beginning of the renovation in 1851 graves containing gold and silver jewels were found in the church. The so called "Treasure of Losonc" can be seen in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. The church was heavily damaged in the fights at the end of World War ll. Behind the Soviet tanks the Czechoslovak administration crept back to the Hungarian town. The Czechoslovak president Benes arbitrarily deprived the Reformed Church of all its possessions in his decrees, so they could not renovate the building. The Reformed Church recovered the building in 2005 and started to use it as it was originally intended. On July 21, 2015 a plaque was unveiled commemorating the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the church and also the 10th anniversary of its recovery.
Lutheran Church
History
It was built in late Classicist style in 1859 on the place of the former church built in 1784.
Roman Catholic Vicarage
Rímskokatolícky farský úrad
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parish
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parish
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Roman Catholic
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Roman Catholic Vicarage
History
The vicarage was built between 1780 and 1792 in late Baroque style. In 1849 the church was looted and burned by the Russian troops, which were called in by the Habsburg ruler to intervene in the Hungarian War of Independence on his side. A new vicarage was built on the same place by Bartakovics Béla, the bishop of Rozsnyó. lt was renovated in 1897.
Neolog Synagogue, Jewish Exhibition
Synagóga Lučenec
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synagogue
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museum, event center
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Jewish
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Concerts and other events are organized in the building.
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Neolog Synagogue, Jewish Exhibition
History
It was finished in 1925.
Public buildings
Town Hall, Town Museum of Losonc
Radnica
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town hall
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town hall, museum
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Town Hall, Town Museum of Losonc
History
It was built between 1893 and 1894 in Art Nouveau style.
Cultural facilities
former Hungarian Royal State Grammar School
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school
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school
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Kármán József Hungarian Language Primary School and Kindergarten
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former Hungarian Royal State Grammar School
History
The building was constructed in 1883 for the Hungarian State Grammar School. It is now a Hungarian language elementary school and kindergarten named after Kármán József.
Vigadó
Reduta
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dancing / concert hall
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hotel / tavern / guesthouse, restaurant / confectionery / café
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Hotel Reduta
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Vigadó
History
The dancing and concert hall was built in 1816 and was reconstructed in 1856.
Private buildings
Museum and Plaque of Szabó Gyula
History
Szabó Gyula (1907 1972) was an important Hungarian painter, graphic and poet, who lived and worked in Losonc.
Szilassy Manor
Silašiho Kaštiel
Ladislav Luppa / CC0
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mansion / manor house
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abandoned
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Szilassy Manor
History
It was a Baroque manor house built in the 17th century. Szilassy József Sr. (1755-1835) reconstructed it in Classicist style.
Rakottyai Villa
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villa
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day nursery / kindergarten
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Kindergarten
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Rakottyai Villa
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It was built as the family villa of Rakottyai György, owner of the enamel factory, in 1910. It was planned by Lehner Ödön (1845-1914), the greatest representative of Hungarian Art Nouveau architecture.
Museum and Gallery of Nógrád
Novohradské múzeum a galéria
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house
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museum, gallery
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The museum exhibits archaeological finds, glass and enamel products, furnitures from the Forgách Castle in Gács and the paintings of the famous Hungarian painter Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar.
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Museum and Gallery of Nógrád
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Kubinyi House
History
The house of Kubinyi Ferenc (1796-1874) and his wife, Losonczi Gyürky Franciska. Kubinyi Ferenc was born in the neighboring village of Videfalva, but he lived in Losonc. He was a natural scientist and also the representative of Nógrád County in the Parliament of Hungary in the 1830's years. He was one of the leaders demanding reforms besides Kossuth Lajos and Széchenyi István. His house was the center of social life in Losonc, where charity events were also held.
Memorials
former Statue of Kossuth Lajos, Statue of the Defender of Nógrád
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statue / memorial / relief
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former Statue of Kossuth Lajos, Statue of the Defender of Nógrád
History
The statue of Kossuth Lajos, the leader of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848-1849, was unveiled on September 19, 1910 in the middle of the Kubinyi square. It was the artwork of Holló Barnabás. The statue was destroyed by the invading Czechoslovak soldiers in January 1919. The stone statue of the Hungarian freedom fighter that was originally on its pedestal is now in the garden of the Gallery of Nógrád. In 2002 a new statue was placed in its place made of wood and tin called "defender of Nógrád" with an explanation text in Slovak and Latin. Nógrád was the name of the Hungarian county, which once Losonc also belonged to. The southern part of this historical county still belongs to Hungary and is called Nógrád County.
Remains of the Statue of Kossuth Lajos
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Remains of the Statue of Kossuth Lajos
History
The statue of Kossuth Lajos, the leader of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848-1849, was unveiled on September 19, 1910 in the middle of the Kubinyi square. It was the artwork of Holló Barnabás. The statue was destroyed by the invading Czechoslovak soldiers in January 1919. The stone statue of the Hungarian freedom fighter that was originally on its pedestal is now in the garden of the Gallery of Nógrád.
Memorial of Kármán József, former Memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence
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Memorial of Kármán József, former Memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence
History
On March 24, 1877 the memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence was unveiled on the Kubinyi square next to the Calvinist church. The stone obelisk was raised in memory of the troop of Maj. Beniczky Lajos, which routed the several times larger Imperial troop on March 24, 1849 during the Hungarian War of Independence. In 1945 it was destroyed by the Czechoslovak administration, which systematically removed every memorial that reminded them of the country's Hungarian past.
The statue of Kármán József was originally unveiled in 1896 in front of the Hungarian Royal State Grammar School. The Czechoslovak invaders removed it in 1945. It was set up again on March 24, 1969, where once the memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence stood. Kármán József (1769-1795) was a Hungarian writer (Fanni hagyományai, a sentimentalist novel), publisher of the literary journal Uránia, and theater organizer of the Enlightenment Era.
Plaque of Kármán József
History
The birthplace of Kármán József on Nagybég Street was marked with a dark granite plaque in 1896. The old house was demolished in 1926, but the plaque was placed back on the wall of the new building. In 1945 the Czechoslovak administration disposed of the plaque. A new Hungarian-Slovak language plaque was unveiled on March 24, 1969 with the following text: "Kármán József, Hungarian writer, was born here on March 14, 1769". Kármán József (1769-1795) was a Hungarian writer (Fanni hagyományai, a sentimentalist novel), publisher of the literary journal Uránia, and theater organizer of the Enlightenment Era.
Plaque of Petőfi Sándor
History
The great Hungarian poet of the Revolution and War of Independence between 1848 and 1849 made a journey in northern Hungary in 1845. The last station of his journey was the town of Losonc, where he spent one week and wrote two poems. On the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet, on July 30, 1899 a plaque was unveiled on the wall of the house, where he once stayed. As every Hungarian memorial, this plaque was also removed by the Czechoslovak administration in 1945. The local organization of the Csemadok managed to get the plaque replaced in 1950 on the 105th anniversary of Petőfi's visit in Losonc in a public ceremony. The following is written on it: "Petőfi Sándor stayed here in 1845, July 30, 1899".
Plaque of the Consecration of the Calvinist Church
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plaque
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plaque
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Plaque of the Consecration of the Calvinist Church
History
On July 21, 2015 a plaque was unveiled commemorating the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the church and also the 10th anniversary of its recovery.
Museums and Galleries
Neolog Synagogue, Jewish Exhibition
Synagóga Lučenec
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
museum, event center
Church:
Jewish
Note:
Concerts and other events are organized in the building.
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Neolog Synagogue, Jewish Exhibition
History
It was finished in 1925.
Town Hall, Town Museum of Losonc
Radnica
Originally:
town hall
Currently:
town hall, museum
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Town Hall, Town Museum of Losonc
History
It was built between 1893 and 1894 in Art Nouveau style.
Museum and Plaque of Szabó Gyula
History
Szabó Gyula (1907 1972) was an important Hungarian painter, graphic and poet, who lived and worked in Losonc.
Museum and Gallery of Nógrád
Novohradské múzeum a galéria
Originally:
house
Currently:
museum, gallery
Note:
The museum exhibits archaeological finds, glass and enamel products, furnitures from the Forgách Castle in Gács and the paintings of the famous Hungarian painter Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar.
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Museum and Gallery of Nógrád
History
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It was called Luchunch.@#6|@1440|After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for L\u00e1szl\u00f3, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title \u0022Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa\u0022, and gave him the castle of Z\u00f3lyom.@1440-1441|The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).@1442|The Czech Hussite plunderers led by Jan Jiskra broke into the town.@1449\u20131450|A war was fought to drive out the Hussite marauders from Hungary with little success.@March 28, 1450|A peace was negotiated in Mez\u0151k\u00f6vesd, but Jiskra soon broke it.@September 7, 1451|Hunyadi J\u00e1nos launched a campaign against Jiskra and the Hussites. The Hussites converted a monastery on the Saint King's hill near Losonc to a fort. Hunyadi besieged it. Jiskra left the castle of G\u00e1cs to break the siege. Hunyadi hurried to fight him. At this moment the Hungarian army left behind to maintain the siege started to flee because of a betrayal (he had many rivals among the barons of Hungary). Hunyadi was attacked from both sides and was defeated.@1462|The army of King Matthias of Hungary, under the command of Szapolyai Imre and Istv\u00e1n defeated the Hussites. 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They shot down three officers and took many captives.@August 9, 1849|The Russian troops of Grabbe set the town on fire as a revenge after having suffered a defeat at Gesztely from the Hungarian general Leiningen-Westerburg K\u00e1roly on the 28th of July.@#30|@1871|Losonc got a railway connection from Budapest on the F\u00fclek - Losonc - Z\u00f3lyom - Ruttka line.@#31|@#32|@January 3, 1919|The Czechoslovaks invaded Losonc.@January 8, 1919|The Czechoslovak invaders tore down the statue of Kossuth Lajos by a rope. 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