Szarvas

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Field	Value
official_name	Szarvas
other_name	Sarvaš
settlement_type	Town
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
image_skyline	Szarvas ótemplom.JPG
image_caption	Old Lutheran church (1786–1788)
image_shield	HUN Szarvas Címer.svg
image_flag	Flag of Szarvas.svg
coordinates
pushpin_map	Hungary
pushpin_label_position
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
subdivision_type1	County
subdivision_name1	Békés
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Szarvas
area_total_km2	161.57
population_as_of	2011
population_total	16954
population_density_km2	114.35
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	5540
area_code_type	Area code
area_code	(+36) 66
website
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Szarvas (, ; ) is a town in Békés County, Hungary.

Name

Placename Szarvas originated from the old Hungarian word szarvas, which means deer. Deer also can be found in the coat of arms of the town.

Location

Szarvas is located in the Great Hungarian Plain upon the Körös River, 170 km southeast from Budapest. Highways 44 and 443, and the Mezőtúr-Orosháza-Mezőhegyes railway line also cross the town. The geographic centre of Hungary was near Szarvas before the Treaty of Trianon; a memorial in a windmill shape now marks that location in a park on a bank of the Körös River across from the Arboretum.

History

According to the Hungarian Royal Treasury () it was an ethnic Hungarian town in 1495. The Medieval town was ruined due to the Ottoman wars, native Hungarian population fled from the area. It was uninhabited until 1720, when Austrian baron Johann Georg Freiherr von Harruckern (György János Harruckern) invited mainly Slovak settlers from Upper Hungary to the deserted area. They built a brand new town by the help of Sámuel Tessedik, who invited engineers to plan the town. Tessedik also established the first agricultural school in Hungary. Lutheran church was built from 1786 to 1788, the Roman Catholic from 1808 to 1812. Town hall was built in 1820. Hungarians overtook Slovaks in the 1920s, become the majority according to the census was held in 1930.

Since 1990 Szarvas is home to the Ronald S. Lauder Szarvas International Jewish Youth Camp ().

Demographics

According to the 2011 census the total population of Szarvas was 16,954, of whom there were 14,325 (84.5%) Hungarians, 1,822 (10.8%) Slovaks, 489 (2.9%) Romani and 75 (0.4%) Germans by ethnicity. 15.4% did not declare their ethnicity, excluding these people Hungarians made up 99.9% of the total population. In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared a minority one along with Hungarian.

In 2011 there were 4,531 (26.7%) Lutheran, 2,601 (15.3%) Roman Catholic and 708 (4.2%) Hungarian Reformed (Calvinist) in Szarvas. 4,087 people (24.1%) were irreligious and 200 (1.2%) Atheist, while 4,601 people (27.1%) did not declare their religion.

Sights

Szarvas Botanical Garden (Szarvasi Arborétum)
Bolza Castle (Bolza-kastély)
Dry Mill (Szárazmalom)
Sámuel Tessedik Muzeum (Tessedik Sámuel Múzeum)
Szarvas Spa (Szarvasi Gyógyfürdő)
Csáky Castle (Csáky-kastély)
Mitrovszky Castle (Mitrovszky-kastély)
György Ruzicskay Art House (Ruzicskay György Alkotóház)
Lutheran Old Church (Evangélikus ótemplom)
New Lutheran Church (Evangélikus újtemplom)
Slovak Country House (Szlovák tájház)

Notable people

Roland Lipcsei (1984), Hungarian football player
Éva Novodomszky (1974), Hungarian journalist and presenter
Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky (1886-1944), Hungarian politician
Jon Urbanchek (János Urbancsok) (1936-2024), Hungarian American swimming coach

Sport

Szarvasi FC, association football club

Twin towns – sister cities

Szarvas is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Testvérvárosok|url=https://www.szarvas.hu/varosunk/testvervarosok |website=szarvas.hu|publisher=Szarvas|language=hu|access-date=2021-04-09}}

ROU Baraolt, Romania
ITA Bucine, Italy
FIN Keuruu, Finland
SVK Malacky, Slovakia
SVK Poprad, Slovakia
ROU Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania
ROU Vlăhița, Romania

References

Magyarország autóatlasz, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004, {{ISBN. 963-03-7576-1
"Historical Centre of Hungary and Memorial Track - National Parks". Hungarian Tourism Ltd..
"Geographical center of Hungary".
"Arboretum of Szarvas, Szarvas, 5540 Hungary, 46.876976, 20.536938". Google.
Károly Kocsis (DSc, University of Miskolc) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, Budapest University) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; {{ISBN. 963-9545-10-4, CD Atlas
Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, {{ISBN. 963 243 241 X, p. 860, pp. 448-449
[http://szarvascamp.eu/ Website of the Szarvas International Jewish Youth Camp]
[http://www.ksh.hu/apps/hntr.telepules?p_lang=HU&p_id=23870 Gazetteer of Hungary / Szarvas]
[https://www.ksh.hu/nepszamlalas/tablak_teruleti_04 2011 Hungarian census, Békés county]
[https://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/idoszaki/nepsz2011/nepsz_03_00_2011.pdf Hungarian census 2011 - final data and methodology]

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