Felsőszölnök, the westernmost settlement of Hungary lies at the bottom of the triple-boarder in a picturesque environment. Certificates first mentioned it in 1378 in Latin (Zelnuk Superior). It is worth to visit the Roman Catholic Church furthermore the art exhibition which has been organized in the former vicarage in the centre of the largest Slovenian settlement being...
Written memories mentioned the settlement in 1538; the residents had been serfs of the Szentgotthárd Cistercian Abbey. Orfalu used to have 350 residents but by today it had become the smallest Slovenian settlement. Its separate houses are surrounded by plough lands, orchards, meadows which gives a mosaic character to this land. There is a “skirt-like” bell...
Felsőszölnök, the westernmost settlement of Hungary lies at the bottom of the triple-boarder in a picturesque environment. Certificates first mentioned it in 1378 in Latin (Zelnuk Superior). It is worth to visit the Roman Catholic Church furthermore the art exhibition which has been organized in the former vicarage in the centre of the largest Slovenian settlement being...
The following stage of the northern valley of Raba-countryside is Alsószölnök which has been home of Slovenians, Germans and Hungarians for many centuries. Certificates first mentioned it together with Felsőszölnök, in 1378 in Latin as Zelnuk inferior et superior. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the lordship of Dobra. It is partially a sparse and partially a street like...
The settlement was recognised by a certificate in 1350 as Zakonyfolva.
In Szakonyfalu passing by the Roman Catholic Church, built in honour of the Sickle Blessed Virgin Mary, a real paradise of nature lovers burst upon our view. On the macadam road, which can be cycled, we can reach the forester’s house of Szakonyfalu. In time of the border-line the...