Zirc (german: Sirtz) is a town in
Veszprém county
Veszprém ( hu, Veszprém megye, ; german: Komitat Wesprim (Weißbrunn)) is an administrative county (''megye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county.
Veszprém county
Veszprém county lies in western ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...
. It is the administrative seat of
Zirc District.
At the end of the
19th century and the beginning of the
20th century, Jews lived in Zirc. In
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
, 92 Jews lived in Zirc, Some of them were murdered in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
.
Attractions
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Zirc Abbey
Zirc Abbey, formerly also Zircz Abbey, also known as ''Zircensis'' or ''Boccon'', is a Cistercian abbey, situated in Zirc in the Diocese of Veszprém, Hungary.
History First period
The early history of the monastery is obscure as regards to both ...
, a
Cistercian
The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Sain ...
abbey
**Bakony Museum of Natural Sciences, situated in the territory of Zirc Abbey
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Reguly Antal Memorial Library
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Zirc Arboretum
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Reguly Antal Ethnographic Museum and Folk Art Workshop
Twin towns – sister cities
Zirc is
twinned
Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to:
* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
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Pohlheim, Germany (1990)
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Baraolt, Romania (1990)
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Nivala, Finland (1998)
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Dertsen, Ukraine (2009)
References
External links
Aerial photography: Zirc
Populated places in Zirc District
Hungarian German communities
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Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust