Szeghalom is located in the northern part of Békés county , the center of the Szeghalmi district , on the eastern edge of the Dévaványa plain (but is also often mentioned as the capital of Sárrét ). At the end of the 15th century , it was a market town and then depopulated. It has been a continuously inhabited settlement since 1711 , and a city since 1984 . It is located on the right bank of the Berettyó , only a few kilometers away, where the Sebes-Körös and the Berettyó converge , accompanied by beautiful floodplain forests . And if we turn our backs on the rivers, it is the Great Plainwe see the “sea plane” region. The meanders cut during the regulation of the rivers are beautiful excursion places and popular fishing paradises. Here, even in small patches, you can find the flora and fauna corresponding to the geographical location . The industry spared the countryside, only farming could get chemicals into the soil.
Sights
Monuments and listed buildings
- Reformed Church : Built on the foundation of a medieval church in 1784 , in late Baroque style. Its tower was built only in 1794. In 1827 it was enlarged to the shape of a Greek cross. The pillars holding the gallery exude a special atmosphere with their lights and shadows. His pulpit was made in 1834 by a local master. In 1844 the roof and tower burned down, in 1949 it was rebuilt.
- Reformed presbytery and granary
- Old Reformed school
- Pastoral residence : Built in the early 19th century in the classicist style, with a folk-romantic facade. Zoltán Tildy lived here between 1933 and 1945, and President of the Republic between 1946 and 1948.
- Roman Catholic Church : On a man-made hill about 2.5 m high, the baroque was built in 1869 from a granary built around 1800 . The wooden belfry belonging to the church was made in 1892 and is a unique pyramid-shaped wooden tower in the county.
- Wenckheim – D’Orsay Castle : The classicist-romantic mansionwas built around 1800 by the Wenckheim family . Emil D’Orsay added romantic notes to the building. English bearded eyebrows give the characteristic romantic decoration. After 1945 , the castle was used as a pen warehouse. Nowadays, the renovated castle houses the integrated institution of the Miklós Nagy City Library and the Sárrét Museum Collection of Public Interest. There was a serious cellar system under the castle, and there are several beliefs that the tunnel leads to the Kárász Castle at the other end of the city, and to the Castle of the Sebes-Körös Coast according to another version.
- Kárász Castle : Girls’ College, former Kárász Castle and garden dance pavilion, classicist-Neo-Renaissance-eclectic, builtaround 1840 andaround 1890 . In World War II, his left wing and portico were destroyed.
- Péter András Grammar School : In 1907, András Péter, a wealthy farmer, intended 1,500 acres of land for a grammar school to be established in his village. The grammar school has been operating since 1926, the first volume of poems by István Sinka was published by his enthusiastic youth.
- János Simay town hall: formerly a kindergarten, then a museum. Today, the uniform collection of János Túri is a private collection.
- Court building
Public sculptures, memorial sites
- Lajos Kossuth statue (1907): the work of János Horvay
- World War I Memorial (1927): The work of István Gách
- Basket of Abundance (1970): The work of János Konyorcsik
- Sárhajó memorial (1971): the work of András Dohányos
- Spatial Sculpture (1974): The work of Ferenc Kovács
- Bust of Sándor Petőfi (1980): The work of Sándor Mikus
- Monument to Liberation (1980): The work of Makris Agamemnon
- Digger Monument (1983), Kiss Gyula Kovacs works
- Bust of Zoltán Tildy (1989): The work of László Ratki
- II. World War II edifice (1992): the work of Ákos Eleőd
- National Flag Monument (1996): the work of Gyula Sándor
- Francis Szisz Bust (2006) Imre Elek work
- Jewish cemetery next to Füzesgyarmat road
- Kunhalmok
- András Péter’s tomb chapel: located in Szeghalom – Halas-puszta
