Tiszaföldvár is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.
Tiszaföldvár is located in the Szolnok-Túri plain micro-region of Nagykunság, belonging to the Middle Tisza Region , south of Szolnok , in the lower section of the Central Tisza Landscape Protection Area , in the middle section of the Tisza River, on the left bank, in the northern part of Tiszazug. The closest to the city is Martfű to the north , Cibakháza to the south and Mezőhék to the east . It is located about 130 km from Budapest .
Sights
- Inner Reformed Great Church
It is located in the central part of the city. It was built in the late Baroque style and was consecrated in 1788. A single-nave structure with a gallery tower in front of the facade. A II. According to the grace decree issued by József , its entrance opens onto a side road, its tower is also located on the farthest side of the church measured from the main road. Thus, the church is about “turning its back” on the main road. At each end of the nave is a choir supported by three arches, and on the left side is a wooden porch. Its organ is also suitable for concerts. The ceiling is coffered, the walls are white, the benches are gray, only the turkeypulpit decoration and the roses in the center of the cassettes are gilded. In the church garden you can see several precious tombstones of the old cemetery. From the bell tower of the tower you can see the whole settlement. The current main entrance overlooking the main square only got its more ornate, baroque form during the 1929 renovation.
- Evangelical church
The church was built in 1855 in the late classicist style . Single-nave building with a shrine with a straight closure. The high portico with gabled tympanum in front of the main entrance is supported by two corner pillars and two columns. The central, square part of the ship has a Czech glass vault. The area above the altar and the porch next to the tower are covered with a longitudinal vault. Decorated in a classicist style. During the last façade renovation, its classicist sections were unfortunately partly covered with polystyrene foam, so the original forms of the classicist façade are awaiting restoration.
In 1894, a two-tower, colored brick church built in the Neo-Romanesque-Neo-Gothic style was built in honor of the Virgin Mary and St. Stephen . In its sanctuary there is a window depicting the Virgin Mary, and in the sacristy there is a window depicting St. John the Baptist . The altarpiece depicts St. Stephen as he offers the crown to the Virgin Mary. The “Holy Land Exhibition” in the church consists of a collection of ward trips to the Holy Land. The cave of Lourdes was built in the church garden, surrounded by arrow-shaped marble plaques indicating the direction and distance of the largest shrines of Mary.
- Church of the Heart of Jesus (Roman Catholic)
The only Hungarian copy of the Turin Shroud , the work of the artist László Dinnyés from Kunszentmiklós, is kept in the Roman Catholic church on János Döbrei Road on the sandy part . On the 436 x 110-centimeter canvas, he put exactly everything on display on the original Turin death cover.
- Officer’s apartment
On the left side of Kossuth út, at 101, is the former officer’s apartment, in which, according to contemporary records, Lajos Kossuth also visited on March 15, 1849, in preparation for the battle of Szolnok. A marble plaque on the wall of the house is reminiscent of the big event. The building is under local protection. Károly Somogyi, the founder of the Somogy Library in Szeged, was born in this house.
- Tiszazugi Geographical Museum
For a long time, the Tiszazugi Geographical Museum operated in a former school building next to the Reformed Church. Creating the collection dr. It is named after Lajos Varga, a grammar school teacher and István Szlankó, museum director. The predominant part of the museum’s professional collection is made up of material related to the natural and economic geography and local history of the Tiszazug: about two thousand natural sciences, thousands of ethnographies, more than two thousand historical documents, approx. twelve thousand repositories were collected, along with countless negatives, slides, books, journals, and maps. The museum’s paleontological collection is the third largest in Hungary. An outstanding piece of the collection is the barge from the Tisza riverbed, which was highlighted in 1968. Since 2006, the museum has been waiting for visitors at 101 Kossuth L. út.
- Kossuth Square
Around the turn of the century, the city’s architectural ensemble, which exudes a historical atmosphere, was formed in Kossuth Square, where a full-length bronze statue of Lajos Kossuth stands. The statue of Sándor Poroszlaimade by a sculptor born in Tiszaföldvár at the request of the locals in 1914. Next to the statue is the ornate stone pool of the Artesian well drilled in 1894. A huge canopy of oak trees leaning over the well, planted according to oral tradition when the well was drilled. Folklore holds that Kossuth tied his horse to this tree, which is why it is also called Kossuth Oak. Both the well and the oak are under local protection. The park is made pleasant by a well-kept ornamental garden, benches and wrought-iron candelabra set up in a circle. The buildings on four sides of the park are: Tiszaföldvár City Mayor’s Office, College (former district headquarters), Document Office and Guardianship Office (former House of Culture), Reformed church and former public bath.
- Somogy monument
In the small square in front of St. Stephen’s Church there is a monument to the founder of the Somogy Library in Szeged, Károly Somogyi.
- Monument to the Martyrs of Arad
The memorial column shows a carved portrait of the martyrs. In the city you can also see the I. and II. a monument erected in memory of the heroes of World War I and the 1956 revolution .
- Open chimney house, Kossuth u. 2.
It is the only surviving residential house with an open chimney in the Middle Tisza region, a representative of the former Central Hungarian or Great Plain house type. It is protected by a municipal decree. The free chimney house type is shown in Figures 14-15. It appeared in the Great Plain in the 19th century and characterized the peasant housing construction almost exclusively until the end of the 19th century, today only a few specimens can be seen. Using two rooms of the previous building, it was built around 1890-1900 from adobe and brick, with a wooden-columned, carved elbow-shaped porch. Three-part house, the first two-thirds of which have a porch. We enter the atrium from the porch, from where the kitchen with free chimney opens, the large room on the right and the small room on the left. The large room has a square, new type of oven. The oven in the small room had been demolished earlier. The chamber opens from the end of the porch. The gables of the house were made of wide planks, on the street side with a single vent, with three arched openings in the yard-facing pediment. The house belonged to the Gulyás family. The house was inhabited until the mid-1990s, after which it began to decay, the chimney of the open-plan kitchen collapsed around 2003. It was partially restored in 2005-2006 and received temporary coverage. It is hoped that the reconstruction can be completed in the future.
- Tiszaföldvár Thermal Bath and Camping
The facility is operated by Tiszaföldvári Víz- és Csatornamű Kft. The 71 ° C thermal water of the bath has a healing effect. The facility has been expanded with an infinity pool, a baby paddling pool and a pounding pool. Alkaline chloride, bicarbonate thermal water relieves rheumatic, joint diseases. In addition to the beach, there is a recreation area and a camping area. The beach in Földvár is very popular among training camp athletes, several associations in the settlement keep part of their summer preparations. There is a restaurant with a hot kitchen and a snack bar on the premises. Beach volleyball, football and water polo opportunities, as well as horse riding terrain, await visitors. Swimming venues, festivals and cultural events are regularly held on site.
- Pálinka, Hungarikum (Szicsek Pálinkafőzde Kft., Ókincsem III. Cross road 10-14.)
