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.