Stop point - Lukácsháza

Stop point - Lukácsháza

Today's Lukácsháza consists of three formerly independent villages (Nagycsömöte, Kiscsömöte, Lukácsháza).

The St Martin's Way leads through the vineyard on the outskirts of the village. Since 2010, a 12-metre-high lookout tower made of larch has stood on the hill. The adjoining wine house, which is about 150 years old, is cared for by the Wine Lovers of Lukácsháza.  The vineyard on which the lookout tower stands used to belong to the territory of Nagycsömöte. The first record of the vineyards here dates back to 1604, when István Chemetey bequeathed his cellar and vineyard on the Fabyan hill in Csömöte to his younger daughter and the two vineyards near the Tar vineyard to his eldest daughters ("a kysebbyk. leanyomnak a Fabyan hegyen valo pynczes ßölömeth bequeath ....).  In 1858, there were only 8 wooden press houses on the hill, but the number of vineyard plots and owners already exceeded half a hundred. Among others, István Gothard of Herény had a press house and vineyards here.  The following areas belonged to the municipality.

An event linked to the Csömötei hill and the local wine culture is the hill-walking around St. Ivo's Day (19 May). Saint Ivo has been considered the patron saint of wine drinkers in Hungary for at least two centuries. Ivo (Yves), who lived in France in the 13th century, is invoked elsewhere by lawyers, notaries, the poor and orphans, and is also the patron saint of Brittany and the Bretons. 
 
"And you, holy Ives, blessed of the prophets,
whom many a small sword and a short mente honour,
Make us your Druid today and be with us,
With us, who this day dedicate to thee a feast."
(Mihály Csokonai Vitéz)
 
or
 
"Our ancestral father is holy Ivo, holy Ivo,
He himself is a wine drinker, a wine drinker.
He showered in taverns, showered in taverns,
He became a saint, he became a saint."
(János Erdélyi: To this beautiful word, jurat ....)
 
From the lookout, a red triangular road leads to the village and the Lukácsháza railway station.
 
Attraction
- Biotájháza 

A house that is more than a building, a farm that is more than a business, a tradition that is no longer a thing of the past! The Biotájház is the life, the past and the future of the village, a picture of a simple, happy and full life, painted by us, its creators, in such a wonderful colourful way for all our guests! Be it handicrafts, biodynamic farming, the use of the lunar calendar, peasant gastronomy, landscape farming, all of these can be experienced here in Lukácsháza, on the eastern edge of the Upper Highlands, perhaps one of the first and last "quiet" villages. The sight of a colourful flower, a bathing goose, a pig feeding on cottage cheese, a tree in blossom, and the red and white of a house in a green landscape, I think, is a warming feeling in the heart of every Hungarian. 


- St. Rokus church in the cemetery of Nagycsömötei

The cemetery chapel of Saint Rokus in Nagycsömötei was built in the 16th century, during the plague epidemic. Historians identify Count Tamás Nádasdy as its builder. Fear of the plague may have been the reason why the cemetery was located far enough away from the village. According to the decree of Saint László, the cemeteries had to be built around the church. This is how the chapel of St. Rocco was placed in the middle of the cemetery. A very beautiful chapel from the 16th century has a semicircular sculpted doorway facing west, above which there is a semicircular sculpture. The statue of St. Rocco, from which the chapel takes its name, stands in the niche.
This is no coincidence, since he is the patron saint of shepherds. 

  • Lukácsháza

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