Jánoshida is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok

This article is about the modern county, for the historical one see Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok .Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok is the name of an administrative county in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hajdú-Bihar, Békés,...

 county, in the Northern Great Plain

Northern Great Plain

Northern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North region. Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. It is also one of the largest plains in the world with an area of about 3000 square...

 region

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 of central Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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Geography

It covers an area

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 of 34.79 km² (13 sq mi) and has a population

Population

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 of 2725 people (2001).

History

Earliest signs are from archaeologic finds of ronze age(1800-1700 B. C.). An Avarian flute was found from the 6.-7. c. A. D. In 1186 Béla III of Hungary

Béla III of Hungary

Béla III was King of Hungary and Croatia . He was educated in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I who was planning to ensure his succession in the Byzantine Empire till the birth of his own son...

 donated the village to the premontre priests and they built a monastery. The romanesque style of the monastery resembles to those of bishop of Vác

Vác

Vác is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spellings of the name are Vacz and Vacs.-Location:...

, or archbishop of Esztergom

Esztergom

Esztergom , is a city in northern Hungary, 46 km north-west of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom county, on the right bank of the river Danube, which forms the border with Slovakia there....

. The patrocinium of the monastery was John the Baptist

John the Baptist

John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...

. The name of the village had been at that time Szentkereszt (The Holy Cross), and later has got the name of Jánoshida (Ther bridge of John). The monastery was the centre of the provostry. In 1536 the village and the monastery was destroyed in the Tirkish wars. Only after 1688, the year of liberation from the Turkish occupation could the village and monastery have benn rebuilt. In 1715 the village belonged to Pest County. The church have been rebuilt in barock style. The monastery has got classicist style facade in 1830. In 1854 Jánoshida has been moved to Heves County. Finally, in 1876 it was moved to Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County.

Sightseeings

The church with details remained and preserved in romanesque style is the most attractive tourist sightseeing in Jánoshida. The southern doorway of the chapell is in romanesque style and the monastery can be also visited.

Outer links

• Heritage of Jánoshida