Vép is a city ​​in Vas county , in the Szombathely district .

Sights

• The Erdődy Castle : 15th-century origin, repeatedly modified, the school today.
• Roman Catholic Church: Built in 1726 , remodeled in 1848 .
• Collection of Agricultural Historical Memories: The director of the Vép Agricultural Vocational and Further Training Institute provided a room for the local friends of the Agricultural Museum in 1975 to organize and expand their local knowledge collection. In October 1989 , after a long preparatory work, the agricultural memorial house was also opened to the general public

History 

The settlement was inhabited as early as the Iron Age, as evidenced by the ceramic finds and mound graves found on its borders. In Roman times, Vép was a suburb of ancient Savaria , west of today’s Francis Major. This is where the Roman road from Savaria to today’s Sárvár passed . Later, the site of the Roman settlement may have been a Slavic village from the 7th to the 8th century , to which the name of the settlement also refers.Vép, aerial photoView of Vép city from a bird’s eye viewAerial view of Vép city

Today’s settlement in 1186 in Wepy mentioned as the first time when III. King Bela enumerated his courtiers. In 1217 it was a royal estate inhabited by courtiers and the peoples of the Vasvár chapter. According to tradition, Vép was already a market town at that time. 1240 in IV. King Bela secured the privileges of the courtiers living here in a charter. 1280 in IV. King László gave the settlement together with the neighboring village of Szőlős to Rubinus Vaspa.

In 1496 , the property of János Elderbach was left to Archbishop Tamás Erdődy Bakócz of Esztergom . From then on, Vép was the property of the Erdődys . In 1547 the estate was owned by Erdődy II. It was inherited by Peter, who was forced to pledge part of his estate. Thus the Zrínyi family became the owner of Vép , first Miklós Zrínyi, the hero of Szigetvár , then his son György Zrínyi , who died here in 1603 . Vép’s ownership was clarified by a estate lawsuit between the Erdődy family and the Zrínyi family between 1591 and 1612 , after which Tamás Erdődy became the sole owner of the Croatian Ban. 1553in 1567 the city was plagued by plagues. In 1605 , according to a contemporary letter, only 20 people lived in Vép.

In 1615 Tamás Erdődy rebuilt the castle, which then gained its present rectangular shape. In 1675 , Sándor I of Erdődy rebuilt the castle, making it more comfortable, then the western bastion was built. In 1692 his widow Krisztina Csáky built a chapel on the southeast side, in 1695 . On June 9 , she is holding her wedding with her second husband Miklós Bercsényi . In 1726 Erdődy II. Sándor is renovating the castle, at which time a church dedicated to the Transfiguration of our Lord will be built on the site of the city’s old wooden tile church. In 1809 , the noble army of Vas County left the castle of Vép for the battle of Napoleon .

Between 1845 and 1847 , the castle underwent another Renaissance-style transformation, after which a magnificent aristocratic residence was formed with a huge park with palm houses and fishponds. In 1865 Erdődy III. Sándor founded a free maid school. During the two world wars, a military hospital was set up in the castle. In 1924 , the settlement lost its market town rag. In 1945 , the Erdődy estate was divided among the villagers, who completely looted the magnificent building, scattered the valuables, and cut down many of the park’s valuable trees. The remaining part of the tree stand was not declared protected until 1960 .

In 1962 , the Agricultural Mechanical Training School was moved from Pope to Vép, which was placed in the castle. The building was then remodeled for the new purpose, at which point the rectangular towers, porthole bastions, new windows and new tower helmets were demolished.

2009 . city ​​since 1 July.