Hatvan
Hatvan - Description
The town was built at the meeting point of the Matra Mountains and the Great Hungarian Plain, on the two banks of the shallow, yet very capricious Zagyva River. Hatvan (meaning sixty) is exactly sixty kilometres far from Budapest, so a lot of people think that the name refers to the geographical location of the town.
But the town, at an important crossing point, received its name - according to some stories - during the time of King St. Ladislaus of the Arpad dynasty (1077-1095), when sixty Petchenegs were settled down here. According to another explanation, the name of the town, which appeared for the first time in 1235 as "Hotvin", referred to the name of a distinguished person from the time of the Hungarian Conquest.
People have lived in the area of the town as far back as the Neolithic Age. The Bronze Age discoveries in the Strazsa Mountains are outstandingly valuable relics. The period is known as "Hatvan culture" all over the world, after the town. Diets and partial diets were held in Hatvan three times during the Middle Ages. The so-called "clamorous" diet was held here in 1525, when in the shadow of the Turkish threat the gentry relieved the palatine of his position, and elected Istvan Werboczy instead.
The fortress of Hatvan, weakly defended with banks and fences, could not prevent the expanding Ottoman Empire taking the town under its authority. It only escaped Turkish rule in 1686, but in 1715 it is already registered as one of the six towns of the county.
Hatvan's Town Hall, one of the most beautiful buildings of the town, is located on the main square. Built in modern style in 1910, the edifice uses some of the walls of a 12th century Premonstratensian monastery and of an 18th century Capuchin cloister. An ornamental well with a lion decorates the square in front of the building.
Source: Nr. 2.nordtour.hu
But the town, at an important crossing point, received its name - according to some stories - during the time of King St. Ladislaus of the Arpad dynasty (1077-1095), when sixty Petchenegs were settled down here. According to another explanation, the name of the town, which appeared for the first time in 1235 as "Hotvin", referred to the name of a distinguished person from the time of the Hungarian Conquest.
People have lived in the area of the town as far back as the Neolithic Age. The Bronze Age discoveries in the Strazsa Mountains are outstandingly valuable relics. The period is known as "Hatvan culture" all over the world, after the town. Diets and partial diets were held in Hatvan three times during the Middle Ages. The so-called "clamorous" diet was held here in 1525, when in the shadow of the Turkish threat the gentry relieved the palatine of his position, and elected Istvan Werboczy instead.
The fortress of Hatvan, weakly defended with banks and fences, could not prevent the expanding Ottoman Empire taking the town under its authority. It only escaped Turkish rule in 1686, but in 1715 it is already registered as one of the six towns of the county.
Hatvan's Town Hall, one of the most beautiful buildings of the town, is located on the main square. Built in modern style in 1910, the edifice uses some of the walls of a 12th century Premonstratensian monastery and of an 18th century Capuchin cloister. An ornamental well with a lion decorates the square in front of the building.
Source: Nr. 2.nordtour.hu
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