ZSOLT MÓROCZ: HIDDEN NETWORK OF DEFEATS




          Hungary was brought by the Trianon Peace Treaty following the Second World War in a situation similar to that during the Turkish thraldom. The triumphant forces broke the country into several pieces. Every third Hungarian became a foreign citizen. The Horthy-reign (1920-1944) made Hungary economically stable and a leader on cultural areas but Hungary, after the end of the Second World War, lost again its areas re-gained with the help of the Axis. After the Eastern European communist systems' collapse the moral revision expected by many, did not take place.
 


JÁNOS SUBA: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SETTING OUTTHE TRIANON BORDERS IN VAS COUNTY

          The work of determination, setting out and mapping the Trianon borderlines as well as the compilation of the border documents has been performed between 1921 and 1925 by the border-setting committees established by the Allied Powers. The study surveys and presents the most interesting parts of the work of the Hungarian-Austrian Border-setting Committee as well as the agreements of the Hungarian and Austrian commissioners - setting the borderline, area exchanges, and borderline-modifications.
 


ZOLTÁN ZENTAI: FACTS AND HOPES
(The Search for Raw Material and the History of the Mining in the Kõszeg-Mountains)

          The main motive for the raw material search in the Kõszeg Mountain was the condition that bronze objects were found here. On the evidences of the developed bronze industry, antimony, copper and iron ore occurrences were expected in the area of the St. Vid Mountain. The search for non-ferrous metals has two main periods in the years before and, respectively, after the Second World War. On the foots of the mountains, mining for coal of poor quality and in small amounts has also be performed. The recent geological surveys are refuting the existence of a more significant amount of antimony and copper. It can be deemed as proved that the antimony mentioned in earlier notes was in fact pyrolusite. The modern researches were not seeking these ores but the rare elements, instead. According the numerous geochemical surveys, among others, the gold, bismuth, barium, boron, silver, molybdenum, vanadium etc. are raising the hopes.
 
 


LÁSZLÓ KORPÁS: THE POSSIBILITES OF THE CARLIN-METHOD GOLD-MININGIN THE KÕSZEG MOINTAINS AND ON THE VAS-MOUNTAIN

          The Hungarian Carlin gold potential has been sized up between 1995 and 1998 within the frames of a geochemical forecast programme. The programme was also supported by the Hungarian-American Research Fund. The geochemical forecast has been performed on the Hungarian Middle Mountains through creek alluvial surveys and regular rock specimen sampling. It has been stated that the Hungarian Carlin gold potential was modest and this potential was found mostly in Palaeozoic, Mesozoic in subordinated tertiary formations. The spread of the formations that can be characterised by anomalous (>>100 ppb Au) and sub-anomalous (10-100 ppb Au) gold concentrations are determined by large-structure lines and the adjunct shear zones. The study deals in datails with the results of the forecast carried out in the Kõszeg Mountains and on the Vas Mountain.
 


ISTVÁN ESZTERHÁS: CAVES IN THE KÕSZEG MOUNTAINS

          On the 42 km2 Hungarian area of the Kõszeg Mountains we know about 18 natural caves. The majority of these caves were formed out in different schist kinds due to tectonic movements, wearing-away and partly, due dissolution. The dimension of the area's caves is relatively small, 7 m in average. The largest - the "Kalapos-kõ" (roughly: Hat-Rock) cave - is only 30 m. The significance of the caves is given by the including rock's quality and, owing to this, the way of their formation.
 


MÁRTON VERESS: VALLEY-BEHEADINGS IN THE KÕSZEG-MOUNTAINS AND ITS FORELANDS

          On the edge of the Kõszeg-Mountains some mountains can be identified. These form a continuation of the subsidiary ribs. A more quickly deepening and receding water flow - cutting through the limiting rib - is beheading the neighbouring valley which deepens in a slower pace. The mountain formed in this way is called rib monadnock. The Kenyér-Mountain was cut from the rib under the Szabó-Mountain by the stream of the Meszes-Valley qhile the Holt-Mountain was cut from the rib under the Kalapos-kõ by the North-South direction section of the Bozsok-Creek. It is likely that the beheadings that created the Irtás-Mountain and the Botosok are older than the previously mentioned beheadings. The Irtás-Mountain was also separated from the rib under the Kalaposkõ after which a valley on the edge of the mountains reached the old East-West direction valley formed out in the Velem area. The Botosok was separated from the Cák-Forest's rib by the Cák Creek.
 


KÁLMÁN SZÉLL-BÉLA MÁRKUS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. ZOLTÁN SZABOLCS

          We remember dr. Zoltán Szabolcs (1900-1970), titular university professor, head physician on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of this death. He took over the management of the surgery department in the County Hospital at Szombathely by acquiring a grounding above the average. Several operations were performed by him for the first time in the hospital and he even contributed to the science of medicine with new operations. He was a multilateral man, a physician an ethical doctor who devoted himself to the patiens and a rigorous chief. He fulfilled several professional and public functions. His health-organising, educational and professional work carried out on the area of policy was significant as well. He carried out a fatigueless research work for decreasing the morbidity and mortality of the stomach cancer in Vas County and created an abiding work in his profession as well. He deserved completely his numeros awards. He deceased due to a tragic accident.
 


FERENC KAPILLER: "TO SUFFER OF LOVE"
(Part II.)

          The study presents the life sacrifice of Ferenc Kováts (1932-1958), a curate of Gencsapáti. The analyse does not content with the sheer event description - in a more superficial approach the story would hardly be more than an "usual" AVO-history; the faith-martyrdom becomes a whole for us together with the authentic picture of the spirit and the intellect. In the second part of this monograph - published hereby - we can learn about the period of the seminary, his relations with the Barnabites and the almost two-year-long activity of the young curate at Gencsapáti. This present chapter also includes long quotes from the most beautiful and most typical pages of his soul-diary.
 


JOZEF SMEJ: BISHOP SZILY AND THE "TÓTSÁGH" DISTRICT

          From the short biography of János Szily, the first bishop of Szombathely and Miklós Küzmics, a writer and priest from Kancsóc, can be clearly seen that they have to know each other since 1758. The expressions found in the Latin correspondence cuch as "Vandalia", "lingua vandalica" are relating to the regions populated by Slovenians (Tóthság, Slovenska krajna) and the Slovenian language. The study surveys the correspondence between Küzmics and the bishop Szily as well as between bishop Szily and the students originating from the Slovenian regions (Slovenska krajina) concerning the social relations of the Slovenian regions (Slovenska krajina). From these it becomes clear that Szily was a great patron of the Slovenian literature in Hungary as well as the education of Slovenian shildren from beyond the Mura River in the grammar school at Kõszeg.
 


ESZTER MOLNÁR: THE TREATY OF NAGYGERESD AND ITS AFTER-LIFE

          The study deals with the relationship between the Hungarian Reformed and Lutheran Church. The study presents, after imparting the historical prerequisites and the union aspirations, the Treaty concluded at Nagygeresd, near the Répce River in 1833 and renewed in 1900 that controlled the coexistence of the two Churches in the spirit of the fraternity. During the 20th century, the Treaty lapsed but in the last decade the process of the dialogue has been strengthened once again and the values accepted by the two great Protestant Churches have gained again an emphasis.
 


JÓZSEF GÁL: PREPARATION FOR THE WORK AFTER HIGH-SCHOOLGRADUATION IN GRAMMAR-SCHOOLS

          The paper reviews the stages of the preparation process for the work after the high-school graduation - according to the chronological order of the changes in legal requirements - from the 1950s to the present. Also deals with the failure of the polytechnic trainingknow as the "5+1". Reviews the forms of the so-called "2-hours-per-week" practical training that has been completed with the annual 7-10 days of agricultural work.
          The paper presents the education in technical schools that has been introduced in the grammar schools as well and educational policy decree of 1972 (Hungarian Socialist Labour Party - MSZMP) that permitted different different forms of the facultative education. At last the paper deals with the practice of the years 80s and 90s. The paper presents the methods of enforcing the laws in the mirror of the grammar-schools in Vas County.
 


BÉLA POLGÁR: REMEMBERING CARDINAL JÓZSEF MINDSZENTY

          The author, a rector, was born at a parish in Vas County where a great Hungarian of the 20th century, cardinal Mindszenty, primate, was also born. The author, in his paper, published on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of Mindszenty's ordain, 55th anniversary of his appointment to primate and 25th anniversary of his decease remembers his personal memories about the high priest and Mindszenty's mother.