Zirc () is a town in
Veszprém county
Veszprém (, ; ) is an administrative county (''vármegye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county.
Veszprém county
Veszprém county lies in western Hungary. It covers the Bakony hills and the norther ...
, Hungary. It is the administrative seat of
Zirc District
Zirc () is a district in north-eastern part of Veszprém County. ''Zirc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia, Central Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Zir ...
.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews lived in Zirc. In
1910
Events
January
* January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.
* January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, t ...
, 92 Jews lived in Zirc, Some of them were murdered in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...
.
Attractions
*
Zirc Abbey, a
Cistercian
The Cistercians (), officially the Order of Cistercians (, 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 Saint Benedict, as well as the contri ...
abbey
**Bakony Museum of Natural Sciences, situated in the territory of Zirc Abbey
**
Reguly Antal Memorial Library
*
Zirc Arboretum
*
Reguly Antal Ethnographic Museum and Folk Art Workshop
Twin towns – sister cities
Zirc is
twinned with:
*
Pohlheim, Germany (1990)
*
Baraolt
Baraolt (; , ) is a town and administrative district in Covasna County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The town was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1224. It administers fiv ...
, Romania (1990)
*
Nivala
Nivala (formerly known as ''Pidisjärvi'') is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
. The muni ...
, Finland (1998)
*
Dertsen, Ukraine (2009)
References
External links
Aerial photography: Zirc
Populated places in Zirc District
Hungarian German communities
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