- Kővágóörs
Infobox Settlement
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = HUN
timezone=CET
utc_offset=+1
timezone_DST=CEST
utc_offset_DST=+2
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pushpin_map_caption =Location of Kővágóörs
pushpin_mapsize =official_name=Kővágóörs
subdivision_type1=County
subdivision_name1=Veszprém
area_total_km2=22.09
population_total=909
population_as_of=2004
population_density_km2=41.14
postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code=8254
area_code=87
latd=46.84905
longd=17.59905Kővágóörs is a village in Veszprém county,
Hungary . It is one of the largest settlements in theKáli basin . It has 914 inhabitants (2001 ).History
Kővágóörs is landscape protection area, built on a unique
geological formation, the fossil sand hill of thePannon-age Sea.Stone was quarried throughout centuries here (excellent millstones, raw material of bastions and buildings could be prepared from this kind of stone), first part of the name of the village "stone cutting" ("kővágó") originated from here.Today people call this phenomenon of nature “"sea of stones"”.
The second part of the name originated from the "Örs" clan, one of the genuses at the time of Árpád’s conquest of Hungary. This area was the territory of the clan’s main accommodation.
Accordingly Kővágóörs was seat of “alispán” or “
ispán ” (comes ).The village named “Szent-László örs” too a while, because of a church that was built for
Ladislaus I of Hungary .At the time of ruination of
Ottoman Empire destroyed medieval villages belong to the settlement together with their still visible church ruins: Ecser, Sóstókál, Kisörs.ights
*The village has two churches: the older one nowadays used by Lutheran people was built in
1264 and was renovated in Baroque style in the 18th century; the Baroque Catholic church built in front of the Lutheran one was consecrated in1802 .
*The “"sea of stones"” (read more about it in the history of Kővágóörs)
*Museum of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky EndreGallery
ources
Somogyi Győző - Szelényi Károly „The Kál Basin by Lake Balaton” 1992
External links
* [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%91v%C3%A1g%C3%B3%C3%B6rs Hungarian Wikipedia article]
* [http://www.terkepcentrum.hu/index.asp?go=map&tid=23454 Street map (Hungarian)]
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