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Mosonmagyaróvár

The town of Mosonmagyaróvár is situated at the crossing point of the rivers Mosoni-Danube and Lajta, at about 30 km from Bratislava and 80 km from Vienna. The international cycle path (EuroVelo No. 6.) along the Danube leads through the town. 

Attractions

The town’s important tourist attraction is its thermal water. The thermal spa fed by this thermal water is open all year round. The water is acknowledged medicinal water and belongs to the five best quality ones in Europe according to its classification.

The Fort of Óvár is a construction with an irregular quadratic ground-plan built in the 13th century upon the ruins of the Roman settlement and reconstructed several times since then. In 1818 an agricultural-type high level educational institution was founded in the fort by Prince Albert Casimir of Saxony-Teschen, the son-in-law of Queen Maria Theresa of the House of Habsburg. The university of today to be found in the fort (the Western-Hungarian University’s Department of Agriculture and Food Industry) is its legal successor. On the Deák Square stands the Baroque statue erected in 1744 for Saint John of Nepomuk.

The one-storey house of the former archducal castle of the Habsburgs can also be seen on the square. The Town Hall of our days, the former ‘Hundred House’ was built in 1892 in Neo-renaissance style. The main adornment of the Fő Street is the so-called Cselley-house. In the building with even Gothic marks, there is the Hansági Regional Museum housing an arts and crafts exhibition, the Gyurkovics-Collection, and in the wagon-vaulted cellar, a ‘lapidarium’ (ancient stone collection) from the Roman age.

In the Magyar Street – pedestrian street – stands the Saint Gotthard parishchurch built in the 18th century. The crypt of the church is the burying-place of Archduke Friedrich of Austria, member of the House of Habsburg and his wife. The sculpture of St. Ladislaus next to the church was set up by public subscription in 1993.

The Gyásztér (Mourning Square) is in Ipartelep. On this square there is a symbolic

cemetery with a three-figure monument to the memory of the victims died in a volley of shots during the 1956 revolution.

The Hansági Museum that is one of the first founded museums in the country stands opposite to the Town Hospital. The parish-church St. John of Nepomuk in Moson is a building in Baroque style built in the middle of the 18th century. In front of the church the sculpture of King St. Stephen was inaugurated on 20th of August 2000, on the Millennium Memorial Day.

The process has begun many years ago as a result of which the newest attraction of Mosonmagyaróvár (Latin: Ad Flexum), the FUTURA Science Centre could open up its doors in the summer of 2012. In the building of the near 300 years old granary an interactive natural science centre will be established, where visitors can get familiar with the natural sciences through the four elements: water, air, earth and fire. The extremely exciting exhibitions of FUTURA will help the children and teenagers to learn while playing interesting and adventuresome games. Visit FUTURA with your family, class or friends and live an extraordinary experience.

History

Mosonmagyaróvár was already known in the Roman age as a watch-post along the limes under the Latin name Ad Flexum. After the Conquest it was used as a reeve-site, later it became a shire town. Moson and Magyaróvár united in 1939 and together with the village of Lucsony that joined Magyaróvár as early as 1905 they constitute the town of today with a population of 32.000 people.

 

(Source: Szigetköz TDM