Fegyvernek is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.
Points of interest
- Wilderness Tower ( Gothic church remains, built around 1480)
- Roman catholic church in romantic style. Designed by Károly Gerster with Lajos Frey, Lipót Kauser, ( 1862 – 63 )
- Reformed Church ( 1928 )
- New Catholic Church in Szapárfalva ( 1992 )
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk ( Baroque , 1775 )
- Judge’s Castle
- Szapáry-Schwarz Castle
- Calvary Hill
Events
- National Student Goulash Festival (second or third Saturday in May)
- Blooming Tisza Day (end of June)
- Weapon City Day (August)
Economy
Weapon is the name of a large village with a Szekler-Hungarian runic.
Agriculture
The soils of the settlement and its surroundings are meadow solonets , meadow chernozem and plain lowland lime. In addition to grazing livestock and field production, fruit and vegetable production is also flourishing in the settlement. The backwaters of the Tisza provide particularly good opportunities for the development of fishing and water tourism, and even fishing is an important economic factor in itself.
Industry
Today, only the construction and civil engineering industries are present in the settlement, the rolling mill, the brick factory and the former major processing plants have ceased to exist.
