BOON – A travelogue of the memories of great Hungary
Dr. summarized his travels in an informative volume. Dorottya Cserhalmi at the request of the Teleki Sámuel Cultural Association, within the framework of the Orszáhattar hiking movement. His book entitled “Searching for traces of the Kingdom of Hungary in Austria” was jointly organized by the association and the Baross Gábor Vasutas Nyugdíjas Klub in the middle of September in Miskolc, at the Vörösmarty Cultural Center.
He illustrated it with his own photos
The travelogue was published by the Teleki Sámuel Cultural Association on May 30 this year as the first publication of the Orszáhatár hiking movement. The volume is recommended by Zsolt Botond Batár, the executive president of the association. The aim of the movement was to visit and make known the memorial sites found on the borders of the Kingdom of Hungary at the time of the settlement. The author starts from the current border of Slovakia and Austria in the direction of the Slovenian border, 350 kilometers away. The volume contains rich historical, geographical, cultural, ethnographic data and the author’s photos.
Makes you like hiking
– My first volume presentation was on June 1, in Nagykőrös, on the occasion of the day of national unity, at the headquarters of the Teleki Sámuel Cultural Association. I held the second one in Újpest in a railway community center with widespread interest – said Dr. Dorottya Cserhalmi. – Since we are good friends and neighbors with Júlia Szabóné Nagy, the president of the Gábor Baross Railway Pensioners Club, she asked me to hold a presentation at their place as well. My degree is in economics, but I was the chief accountant of MÁV for ten years. A year after my retirement, in 2016, I started to travel more intensively to Switzerland with a retired tour group. However, I have loved going on trips since I was a child. First, I wrote about where I went on my Facebook, which my friends really liked. This is how Zsolt Batár Batár contacted me and asked me to join the Országjáró tour movement. I would have liked to write about Switzerland, but since we have no historical borders there, I chose Austria. Zsolt asked me to write the book as a documentation, which we provided with map and photo appendices. and the purpose of this was to make people want to go hiking in addition to evoking the past.
Few Hungarians remained
He traveled the great Hungarian border with Austria from the Danube to the Lendva.
– I always tried to prepare in advance where there could be Hungarian memories, for the most part they are kept in good order. very few originally Hungarians remained abroad. Their share in the current Burgerland area is 2.4 percent. Felsőőr is one of the Hungarian centers there. We managed to get to know some members of the local Hungarian Reformed parish, who number 1,500 in total. Although the majority of them moved to Austria not long ago, or live in the Szombathely area and commute there to work. The pastor himself is also from Kisvár. Later it turned out that the Hungarians had also wandered off before the settlement. So my friends and I also went to Lower Austria and Styria. Perhaps the most interesting here was our visit to the Sárfének manor, when I joined the Maderspach Kommando in Sopron. They are also busy visiting Hungarian memories with great enthusiasm. Due to the coronavirus, I purposefully walked the southern section in April this year. And the next area I undertook was the Dráva mente – shared the author.