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[00:00:00] and the world of his motifs, that
[00:00:03] it continues to live so that I can pass it on, lay something
[00:00:07] on the table, so that I can make this
[00:00:11] heritage that I received valuable, and this is important
[00:00:14] to me, and I would like to pass this on to our sons
[00:00:16] as well.
[00:00:23] This miracle that is born here on the soil of this simple
[00:00:27] is actually Matyó.
[00:00:30] our collection of patterns, now our national treasure, and it
[00:00:33] is also on UNESCO's list of intangible heritage.
[00:00:37] His grandfather,
[00:00:46] Nagy János, the furrier, became
[00:00:49] world-famous under his nickname. Százrózsás Kis Jankó Bori was the
[00:00:52] designer and further developer
[00:00:55] of Mezőkövesd Matyó embroidery. His plans included creating 101
[00:00:59] flower motifs using the existing Matyó form
[00:01:02] world. Unfortunately, he could not achieve
[00:01:06] this, but his memory is preserved by the enormous folk art
[00:01:10] treasure that came out
[00:02:02] "What do these data tell us? Now
[00:02:05] we all see names, we focus on individual
[00:02:09] destinies, but in reality, this is also
[00:02:12] about the functioning of power. Data is
[00:02:15] never the story, it's just
[00:02:17] over the grave, as family a partial information, and from now on, it will be
[00:02:20] our task to investigate the full
[00:02:24] story. Agent files the price
[00:02:27] of silence, part three.
[00:04:53] Cup winner in Europe,
[00:04:57] the third win is also there, three matches.
[00:05:42] Medieval museum tour French
[00:05:45] style every day at 5:55 PM
[00:05:48] on M1.
[00:05:50] The
[00:05:54] National Archive
[00:06:28] In this region beyond the Tisza, the wide horizon shows
[00:06:32] fertile pastures, cultivated lands and waters, which
[00:06:35] winding in riverbeds or just in the wilderness, regulated or
[00:06:39] naturally, have always characterized these landscapes.
[00:06:42] More precisely, landscapes, because our three settlements today
[00:06:46] are on the edge of three distinctive landscapes,
[00:06:49] adjacent to each other, belonging to three worlds. Mezőtúr preserves
[00:06:53] the traditions of the Körös region, Turkeve the Nagykunság, and Dévaványa
[00:06:56] the Nagysárrét, and shows them to attentive travelers.
[00:07:13] "from the water, we approach the town with many centuries
[00:07:16] of history and culture,
[00:07:20] Mezőtúr, from the direction of the Hortobágy-Berettyó
[00:07:22] Canal. The town of 2000 inhabitants, surrounded by the oxbow
[00:07:26] lakes of the Körös, awaits its visitors with many interesting
[00:07:29] sights. Let's start with perhaps the most famous
[00:07:32] attraction, the Túri pottery. In front of the
[00:07:36] beautiful, classical-style, now operating as an exhibition hall
[00:07:40] former synagogue, stands the monument
[00:07:43] to the local pottery, and next door is the pottery
[00:07:46] museum. The centuries of Túri pottery are presented
[00:07:49] by a beautifully arranged, well-organized
[00:07:52] and value-rich independent exhibition.
[00:07:55] The beginnings date back to the 15th-16th
[00:07:59] century, although this period is primarily referred
[00:08:02] to by occupational and street names. A
[00:08:06] 1737 document mentions four potters among
[00:08:10] 19 craftsmen. The past 200 years are not only shown
[00:08:14] by writings, but also by the objects in the collection,
[00:08:17] from the earlier black pottery
[00:08:21] to the works of today's ironmongers.
[00:08:37] Walking in the city, we can encounter many unique, particularly beautiful,
[00:08:41] or historically significant
[00:08:43] buildings. The Reformed Gymnasium is almost five hundred
[00:08:47] years old, the former Bolvári House with its beautiful courtyard
[00:08:51] facade is now a music school. The
[00:08:54] authentic document of the city's past 100 years is Teacher
[00:08:57] András Szabó's rich postcard collection.
[00:09:01] The first postcard that appears in
[00:09:04] my collection was published in
[00:09:07] 1899, and this, what you see here, is
[00:09:10] up to 1945. "Another box, which is in
[00:09:14] the apartment, is from 1945
[00:09:16] to the present day, that's a different one, if
[00:09:19] we compare these approximately two times 50
[00:09:23] years, which was more fertile
[00:09:26] in this respect, I would definitely say that the period
[00:09:30] before 1945 presents the city
[00:09:33] in a much wider scope, and it is easier to
[00:09:36] track where what was, what changed in which area,
[00:09:40] how it changed, it's here. For example, a small package, this is
[00:09:44] 20-30 postcards, which we put aside here because
[00:09:47] these postcards were made from a single
[00:09:50] building, namely from the city's venerable,
[00:09:54] 100-year-old gymnasium. The Teleki Blanka
[00:09:57] Gymnasium will celebrate its 100th
[00:10:01] anniversary this September 27th. Here is, for example,
[00:10:04] Gergely Fazekas's restaurant, obviously the owner
[00:10:07] Gergely Fazekas is visible in the picture, obviously
[00:10:10] he also had the postcard made. "Some transformations have already
[00:10:14] taken place in its external appearance, but it still
[00:10:17] functions as the same inn and serves the same purpose.
[00:10:20] In November 1907, someone
[00:10:24] sent a windmill postcard
[00:10:27] from Mezőtúr, today they would hardly be able to send such a thing. 10-12
[00:10:30] windmills operated in the vicinity of Mezőtúr
[00:10:34] already from the 1760s, the last windmill was
[00:10:37] dismantled in
[00:10:39] 1912. Here, however, is a building that
[00:10:43] stood and still stands, moreover, a few
[00:10:46] years ago it was declared a monument. This is
[00:10:49] the railway station built around the
[00:10:52] 1860s. Well, very much so.
[00:10:56] Just after renovation.
[00:10:58] In color, the same. Here is a historical document, well, this
[00:11:02] is extremely interesting.
[00:11:04] Hungarian soldiers from 1848-49
[00:11:07] stand in line in front of the Kossuth house
[00:11:10] that still exists today. These people are about 80 years old, so
[00:11:14] it could have been made around the turn of the century. Here is a date
[00:11:18] 1904. This building was built
[00:11:22] in the Millennium year from the donations
[00:11:25] of the citizens of Mezőtúr, then
[00:11:28] after nationalization, the army
[00:11:31] took ownership of it, as an officers' mess, thus it became known, in the
[00:11:35] last 8-10 years
[00:11:39] ownerless.
[00:11:41] Bidding farewell to Mezőtúr, we accept an
[00:11:44] invitation. On the banks of the Körös next to Takács Tanya, Sándor
[00:11:48] Kávási and some members of the Buzavirág Folk Song Circle, by presenting
[00:11:52] the local folk song treasure.
[00:11:55] Imre Csék enticed with the flavors of the traditional
[00:11:58] pasta and potato dish, topogó. Let's see
[00:12:01] first how Mezőtúri
[00:12:03] topogó is made.
[00:12:06] I fry the bacon in this
[00:12:09] cauldron, halfway, yes. So not completely.
[00:12:12] And then I add the
[00:12:16] pre-prepared onions, and they cook together
[00:12:19] in a state where the onion is, so to speak,
[00:12:23] wilted. Hmm, yes, and then we add
[00:12:27] the potatoes, or first the
[00:12:30] colored peppers, then the potatoes, when
[00:12:33] the potatoes are boiled, well, then it's a paprika potato dish, it basically
[00:12:37] looks like a paprika potato dish at first, I pour enough water
[00:12:41] to cover the entire
[00:12:44] older part in the
[00:12:47] cauldron, and then we cook it until
[00:12:50] it completely boils down, and then we
[00:12:54] stir it until the raw pasta, which is already
[00:12:57] cooked, doesn't brown. This
[00:13:01] is when you have to stir it, you have to turn it over, yes, why did it get
[00:13:05] this name? Well, I guess because it takes a long time,
[00:13:08] at least four hours, if you want to do it perfectly, oh my goodness,
[00:13:12] that's it,
[00:13:24] it has to be
[00:13:27] like this, it has to be turned over a few times,
[00:13:31] at least 17 times, and if we turn it
[00:13:34] over 17 times, then it will be beautifully done, what makes it a real
[00:13:38] Mezőtúri dish, please
[00:13:40] tell me,
[00:13:44] well, in the end, because the harvesters,
[00:13:47] when they went out for the whole week, they
[00:13:51] hung the bacon on the tree, kept it there,
[00:13:54] and... the pasta, so it didn't spoil,
[00:14:06] because the lord's clattering spoon
[00:14:10] also, my lover
[00:14:13] left me, my darling also, if
[00:14:16] he left, if he left, if he left,
[00:14:19] I will live myself,
[00:14:23] myself. Mezőtúr,
[00:14:26] under, a fiddler,
[00:14:30] girls fry the fish the
[00:14:33] fish, they cover
[00:14:36] it, cover it,
[00:14:39] they give it to the lad,
[00:14:42] they feed it, they cover it
[00:14:45] in a scarf, cover it,
[00:14:49] they give it to the lad,
[00:14:52] they give it, what is the traditional folk song
[00:14:55] treasure like in this region, it's actually
[00:14:59] more our folk music that is characterized
[00:15:02] by new-style folk songs, and the summás
[00:15:06] songs, because people
[00:15:09] hired themselves out as summás in large farms, that was their
[00:15:12] income, and then some for six months, and then during that time
[00:15:16] they earned their daily bread for the year, or for example, a
[00:15:19] very interesting thing is that the
[00:15:22] harvest threshing workers, when they went
[00:15:26] out on weekends, or came home to clean themselves, as they used
[00:15:29] to say, they came home on Saturdays, and on
[00:15:33] Sunday afternoon they went out again, they sang the whole way,
[00:15:36] roughly and... "they put a
[00:15:39] guest side to the side of the
[00:15:42] carts, they hung their legs
[00:15:45] out, I think about 12 people could fit
[00:15:49] on such a cart, and they sang the whole
[00:15:51] way, and it was very interesting that when the
[00:15:55] collective farms were formed, the workers were transported by
[00:15:59] bus, they didn't sing, please tell me, what was
[00:16:02] this, they don't sing, not anymore,
[00:16:06] and here is the..." great role of the
[00:16:09] folk song circles, the folk song circles
[00:16:13] re-sing, learn,
[00:16:16] and pass on the songs of the past, and try
[00:16:19] to pass them on to young people
[00:16:22] as well. Talking with our dear Mezőtúr hosts,
[00:16:26] it turned out that cooking topogó or singing together
[00:16:29] is still not among the rarest events around here. We wish
[00:16:33] you many similar, pleasant, delicious
[00:16:36] encounters. Leaving the Körös region and heading
[00:16:40] north, we continue towards the Nagykunság.
[00:16:43] On foot, by bicycle, it's only an hour's walk.
[00:16:47] Our next destination is Túrkeve.
[00:16:50] Taking advantage of the sunshine of our stormy summer, the harvest is underway
[00:16:54] in the southernmost region of the Nagykunság. "You swayed
[00:16:57] the ears of grain in the fields of Kunság." Kölcsey
[00:17:01] writes, but he doesn't mention the Cumanian mounds, so characteristic
[00:17:04] of the landscape and with such a mysterious history. But these
[00:17:08] small hills already stood here beyond the Tisza at the beginning
[00:17:11] of the last century, many beautiful legends about the more than a thousand
[00:17:15] structures circulate in popular memory, but we
[00:17:18] would like to find out something definite from archaeologist
[00:17:22] Marietta Csányi. The people living here always knew that these mounds
[00:17:26] were artificial, they instinctively felt it, and
[00:17:29] identified them with pagan burial customs. This is where
[00:17:33] the name Kunhalom (Cumanian mound) comes from. In reality, this is not an explanation
[00:17:37] for the origin of the Cumanian mounds, this is not true, because these mounds
[00:17:40] were formed much earlier, several thousand years ago, during the Bronze
[00:17:44] Age, when ethnic groups arrived here from Eastern Europe,
[00:17:48] who buried their dead in this way, when a dead person
[00:17:52] died, they piled earth
[00:17:55] members died, they were buried here, and then the originally
[00:17:58] smaller mounds became larger earthworks, the
[00:18:02] peoples of the Migration Period also saw them, Árpád's
[00:18:06] Magyars also encountered them, "and not only did they encounter them in later times, but they
[00:18:10] also buried their dead here, later too, in this way, even Cumans could have been
[00:18:13] buried here, so the name Cumanian mound may also have
[00:18:16] some basis. What is under
[00:18:20] such a small mound, if we were to excavate it, what would we find
[00:18:23] inside? At the bottom of the mounds there are usually one, three,
[00:18:27] four, five graves, the graves contain
[00:18:30] poor grave goods, perhaps a pot in which food
[00:18:33] for the deceased was placed, possibly a tool,
[00:18:37] or very rarely copper, so very poor
[00:18:41] graves, the main characteristic of which is that
[00:18:44] without exception, next to every deceased, there is a lump
[00:18:48] of ocher, ocher is a natural earth pigment,
[00:18:51] which symbolized the color of life. now we see far fewer mounds
[00:18:55] than there originally were, there are also some
[00:18:58] that are almost invisible to the naked eye, they may have been
[00:19:01] one or two meters high originally, due to agricultural
[00:19:05] cultivation they have disappeared from the surface, only a few have been
[00:19:09] excavated, well, let's say half a hundred, their excavation is
[00:19:13] a huge earthwork, so that's also why we have been delayed
[00:19:16] with their research, it costs a lot, it costs a lot, yes,
[00:19:20] but the goal of the archaeologists is
[00:19:24] to preserve these mounds as long as possible, because there are so few
[00:19:27] human interventions that do not
[00:19:31] destroy nature, but rather adorn it, so let's
[00:19:34] preserve them.
[00:19:37] This orphaned station building stands roughly halfway
[00:19:41] between Mezőtúr and Turkeve. Here,
[00:19:43] a young elementary school student named Sándor Kelner could
[00:19:46] have boarded the train that figuratively speaking
[00:19:50] headed towards Vienna, Hollywood, and London, and the former
[00:19:54] boy, as Sir Alexander Korda, director and producer
[00:19:57] of many world-famous films, died in
[00:20:00] 1956
[00:20:02] in London.
[00:20:04] The permanent exhibition of the Turkeve museum
[00:20:08] presents the works of two talented and troubled sculptor
[00:20:11] brothers, Sándor and Gergely Finta. One of them
[00:20:15] made a name for himself in America, the other
[00:20:18] primarily in Paris, and finally they meet again
[00:20:22] here in their hometown, Turkeve, at least their
[00:20:25] works do.
[00:20:27] In another room of the museum, an exhibition of the Győrfi
[00:20:31] family, who had a great impact on Túrkeve, Karcag and the entire
[00:20:34] Nagykunság, can be seen.
[00:20:37] We must mention Lajos Győrfi, the former director
[00:20:40] of the museum, who was the most distinguished
[00:20:43] researcher of Túrkeve ethnography.
[00:20:47] The rich local historical collection
[00:20:50] owned by the museum is currently not on display, but thanks
[00:20:53] to museum director Dr. Julianna Örsi, we were able
[00:20:57] to peek into the shelves of the storage room.
[00:21:00] Visitors can see the material in temporary exhibitions.
[00:21:17] In the city, though primarily in the side
[00:21:20] streets, many beautiful, old houses made of mud, with thatched
[00:21:23] or tiled roofs, can still be seen,
[00:21:27] and we hope their number will not rapidly decrease
[00:21:30] in the near future either. One of the most
[00:21:33] beautiful of these is the Győrfi farm on the outskirts of the city, which
[00:21:37] is now owned by the local government.
[00:21:40] The camp organized here every
[00:21:44] year serves to preserve the local ethnographic values, customs,
[00:21:47] and crafts, and children from more distant
[00:21:51] regions of the country also come here. The
[00:21:55] campers can even ride the horses owned
[00:21:58] by the city government.
[00:22:13] During the research of the covered Kunság houses, in some
[00:22:16] places we were happy to see the traditional, horizontally boarded.
[00:22:27] Let's continue the series of attractions in Túrkeve with the exhibition of Cumanian embroidery housed in the community center. Mrs. Kálmán Rác,
[00:22:31] Aunt Marika, local handcraft circle leader,
[00:22:35] talks about the peculiarities of Cumanian embroidery.
[00:22:38] These patterns contain all branches of the
[00:22:42] decorative art of the Nagykunság people. Very
[00:22:46] simple, naive patterns, but...
[00:22:50] "the colors harmonize very well,
[00:22:54] the essence of Cumanian embroidery
[00:22:58] is that the colors always
[00:23:01] darken from the inside out, or
[00:23:04] from the outside in, so the pattern
[00:23:07] looks like needle painting, we also call it embroidered
[00:23:11] stitching in three rows, which means
[00:23:14] that the main motifs located
[00:23:17] in the center
[00:23:20] are always separated by a darker
[00:23:23] stripe from the smaller patterns
[00:23:26] located above and below.
[00:23:29] In another room of the community center, paintings by Lajos Bodnár,
[00:23:33] a recently deceased naive painter, are
[00:23:36] exhibited. It is special that Uncle Lajos
[00:23:40] painted all the windmills around the town,
[00:23:42] because a few years ago there were still
[00:23:46] plenty of these buildings so characteristic of the Great Plain landscape.
[00:23:51] Today there is only one left, the mill of the late
[00:23:54] Kálmán Molnár on the northern edge of the town,
[00:23:57] in a very dilapidated condition. What a shame, what
[00:24:01] a shame.
[00:24:04] The settlement, which was depopulated during the Turkish rule,
[00:24:07] built its large Baroque and
[00:24:11] classical-style Reformed church
[00:24:13] more than 40 years after its re-settlement
[00:24:16] in 1713, with the usual fire-watch
[00:24:20] balcony around its tower, the huge
[00:24:23] interior space's two-story gallery is no longer filled
[00:24:27] with worshipers, perhaps that's why, and obviously due to the lack
[00:24:30] of exhibition space, this lovely little ethnographic
[00:24:34] exhibition was brought here, the largest part of which was collected
[00:24:37] by the students of the Kaszap Nagy István Primary School,
[00:24:40] of course with the help of their grandparents,
[00:24:43] and under the leadership of Debreceni Lászlóné,
[00:24:46] the director of the community center, you can see the furniture
[00:24:50] and tools of a peasant
[00:24:53] on the gallery of the Reformed church.
[00:24:56] The beautiful building of the 18th-century
[00:24:59] parsonage is also there, but there are also
[00:25:03] some other special buildings in the city. The former
[00:25:06] civilian Lajos Makkosút elementary school
[00:25:10] was built in 1909 in a national romantic
[00:25:13] style. The beautiful, classical-style listed
[00:25:17] residential building built around 1830
[00:25:20] has a peculiar name. Ice Palace, this
[00:25:23] and many other important facts can be read
[00:25:27] in Piroska Talpaló's excellent little lexicon of Túrkeve,
[00:25:30] as well as that the pride of Túrkeve, the thermal
[00:25:33] water of the spa, was found
[00:25:37] in 1951 while searching for oil and gas, when instead
[00:25:40] of the expected hydrocarbons, 75-degree water
[00:25:43] erupted to the surface.
[00:25:46] The more than 700-year-old settlement now has 11
[00:25:50] inhabitants, who have to fight for increasingly
[00:25:53] limited employment opportunities. The former
[00:25:57] city of the Nagykun district, now neighboring
[00:25:59] and increasingly dominant in the region,
[00:26:02] Mezőtúr, tries to maintain its traditions
[00:26:05] and showcase its
[00:26:07] values.
[00:26:09] In the last century, Túrkeve was still a typical waterside
[00:26:12] settlement. The Berettyó, originally called Túr,
[00:26:16] turned with a large bend below the town and almost
[00:26:19] reached the main square. Sometimes even further. The last
[00:26:23] devastating flood was recorded
[00:26:25] in 1879. The regulation completed
[00:26:29] in 1896 straightened the river below the town.
[00:26:37] We are now at the Balai Bridge in Túrkeve, and from here
[00:26:41] we will continue along the Berettyó embankment
[00:26:44] into the wilderness, led by Teacher Albert Tóth. We follow
[00:26:47] the blue sign. Where does the blue sign come from and where does it go?
[00:26:51] The blue sign starts from the border of Mezőtúr
[00:26:55] from the Hortobágy Berettyó's estuary
[00:26:58] sluice gate. First it goes on the right bank's
[00:27:02] protective embankment. At the Balai Bridge it crosses to the left bank's
[00:27:04] protective embankment. If we continue our journey here,
[00:27:08] we will touch a part of the Hortobágy Berettyó's given
[00:27:12] section, which was not particularly
[00:27:15] altered during the flood regulations. We walk along huge
[00:27:19] river bends, in the inner
[00:27:22] part of which we find intact, unaltered
[00:27:25] backwaters, which we will look at one by one.
[00:27:28] So let's start on the left bank embankment, the blue.
[00:27:32] Where we are now,
[00:27:36] is a huge, hairpin-like bend,
[00:27:39] a ring-shaped oxbow. Here the river
[00:27:42] turns for at least 4 km so that it almost
[00:27:46] returns to its original branching point, like
[00:27:49] a ring, like a ring. And
[00:27:52] from there a new oxbow starts the
[00:27:56] huge winding, the forest on the other
[00:27:59] side and the farm building in front of it. is already in another
[00:28:02] oxbow, in the Terezi oxbow.
[00:28:05] Soon we will reach an embankment
[00:28:08] one kilometer long, which has not
[00:28:11] only a story, but also a history.
[00:28:14] In the flat plain around Dévaványa,
[00:28:17] we are forced to climb a hill,
[00:28:20] we are climbing a dike or trench
[00:28:23] that rises a few meters, about three to four
[00:28:27] meters high, from the terrain.
[00:28:29] This trench, which the locals
[00:28:32] call the Devil's Ditch, was built
[00:28:36] more than a thousand years ago. Teacher, what is
[00:28:39] its history? Well, we know very precisely
[00:28:43] from the work of historians
[00:28:46] and archaeologists that it was built by the Sarmatians
[00:28:50] between 322 and 332.
[00:28:52] They were
[00:28:55] a populous tribe in this plain.
[00:28:58] And at the instigation of the
[00:29:00] Romans. they erected this enormous
[00:29:04] earthwork defense against threatening Dacic
[00:29:07] incursions. Archaeologists claim that no similar
[00:29:11] earthwork system developed in Europe during antiquity, as
[00:29:14] ez. The vegetation of this rampart has also quite settled from the
[00:29:17] wild. Yes, because here around us, in this extensive
[00:29:20] great plain salt steppes
[00:29:24] can be found. The former Kubik pit is already overgrown with sedge and
[00:29:28] bulrush vegetation. And this is the guardian of that once
[00:29:31] already existing steppe vegetation, which we call loess steppes.
[00:29:35] We are
[00:29:39] approaching our final destination, Dévaványa, located at the edge of Nagysárét.
[00:29:42] The watery, marshy environment provided
[00:29:45] protection and food for the inhabitants. According to
[00:29:48] traditions, thanks to its environment, Vanya
[00:29:52] survived the Turkish times as a rare exception
[00:29:56] in the Great Plain. The structure of the eight and a
[00:29:59] half thousand strong settlement is built.
[00:30:05] Its cultural heritage is much more modest than that of the previous two
[00:30:08] cities, but Dévaványa also strives to preserve
[00:30:12] and create its intellectual image,
[00:30:15] for example, with an excellent functioning library and a tourist
[00:30:18] information center.
[00:30:22] Only the names of parts of the village and nearby
[00:30:26] border names remind us of the former
[00:30:29] watery world, which reached the church before the drainage.
[00:31:04] I would ask Uncle Imre to pick up and show us objects
[00:31:08] that were characteristic of this region, the
[00:31:12] Sárét. Please show us
[00:31:15] tools, objects, yes,
[00:31:17] yes.
[00:31:19] will talk about
[00:31:22] I'll take out this reed cutter. What letter
[00:31:26] is on it? B, b letter. This
[00:31:29] means it belongs to Beretzki Imre. My grandfather
[00:31:31] was the second Beretzki. The other
[00:31:35] larger object is a reed gatherer,
[00:31:38] with which they pushed reeds.
[00:31:41] Yes, they pushed with this. And here...
[00:31:45] it had two arms,
[00:31:47] and the reeds fell between its two arms
[00:31:51] when the reed cutter
[00:31:53] pushed. Here, 200 meters
[00:31:57] from us, is that house which is completely
[00:32:00] thatched, and it also has an ocsú
[00:32:03] on it. What is an ocsú, since it came up? It was
[00:32:07] at the end of the house during the Turkish
[00:32:11] era. It was placed on houses during the Turkish era.
[00:32:15] And here,
[00:32:16] 1839
[00:32:19] indicates that it was built then, but
[00:32:23] even in my childhood, there were many such
[00:32:26] Reformed houses, because Catholic houses
[00:32:30] had crosses. What we see here is the result of 40 years of
[00:32:34] collecting. This is 62, and this
[00:32:37] year, it can be hoped that there will be a small exhibition from this. Well,
[00:32:40] we'll see, yes,
[00:32:42] yes.
[00:32:53] Researching traditional crafts, we found a profession
[00:32:56] that relatively few people practice today, but
[00:33:00] without which the entire Great Plain architecture, or more simply
[00:33:03] put, the tradition of building dwellings would be
[00:33:06] worthless. We are glad to see that modern buildings are also
[00:33:10] made of adobe. Béla Nagy knows the
[00:33:14] secrets of adobe making. What you're doing now is the
[00:33:17] first phase of making adobe bricks, that's right, this is the first
[00:33:21] phase. We sprinkle the bottom of the pit thinly
[00:33:24] with straw, and then we spread
[00:33:27] the earth.
[00:33:31] I see you always pour the water in one place, why? So
[00:33:34] the water is so that it doesn't compress the earth, it's easier
[00:33:38] for me to work it through, well, like
[00:33:41] with mortar, ultimately, you first break up the lime. The longer
[00:33:44] the straw, the better,
[00:33:48] the stronger the adobe, it has a greater
[00:33:50] bond.
[00:33:59] This is good when you get it right, and
[00:34:02] then
[00:34:04] here,
[00:34:07] and then when a few days pass, again, it dries
[00:34:11] a little, then it can be put into
[00:34:15] this mold. We left Dévaványa's most famous
[00:34:18] attraction for last, which every other report usually
[00:34:22] starts with: the great bustard reserve, which now operates
[00:34:26] as part of the Körös-Maros National Park. Antal Szél
[00:34:29] this peculiar bird.
[00:34:31] We are talking about a large bird, as a
[00:34:33] mature male weighs 15-18 kg. 22 kg was
[00:34:37] measured as the maximum male weight in the Carpathian Basin. Consequently,
[00:34:40] it is obviously difficult to keep this large bird in the air. It has
[00:34:44] thick but hollow bone structure,
[00:34:48] and this allows it to ascend up to even a thousand
[00:34:51] meters in altitude. This is especially significant when, due to
[00:34:54] the diminished food availability in winter, a migration
[00:34:58] starts in a south-southwesterly direction, reaching the
[00:35:02] Po Valley in Northern Italy, Albania, and even as far as Sicily.
[00:35:05] However, around the breeding and wintering grounds,
[00:35:08] it makes short flights, usually at altitudes below 10-20 meters.
[00:35:12] It flies at 60 km/h.
[00:35:16] Here at the Réhely Exhibition Center
[00:35:19] of the National Park, those who have the desire and time
[00:35:23] can thoroughly get acquainted with both the landscape
[00:35:27] and the bird. The exhibition,
[00:35:30] friendly staff, and tourist accommodation
[00:35:33] await visitors every day except Monday.
[00:35:36] Our approximately
[00:35:38] 35 km journey today, passing through Mezőtúr, Túrkeve, and
[00:35:42] Dévaványa, has ended.
[00:35:45] We hope we have succeeded in dispelling some of the
[00:35:49] unfortunate misconception that the Great Plain is a monotonous
[00:35:52] and boring region, because, as you have seen, it is full of
[00:35:56] treasures.