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Marion Mill Preminger (August 3, 1903 – April 16, 1972), [1] born Josa Magda Deutsch[2] or Magda Deuth, [3] was a Hungarian-born socialite and philanthropist, best known for her work with Albert Schweitzer, and her marriage to director Otto Preminger.
Pécs (/ peɪtʃ / PAYTCH, Hungarian: [peːt͡ʃ] ⓘ; Croatian: Pečuh; Slovak: Päťkostolie German: Fünfkirchen, pronounced [fʏnfˈkɪʁçn̩] ⓘ; also known by alternative names) is the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the country's southwest, close to the border with Croatia.
- Early Christian Mausoleum
- Cella Septichora visitors Centre
- Pécs Cathedral
- Zsolnay Museum
- Zsolnay Cultural Quarter
- Széchenyi Square
- Mosque of Pasha Qasim
- Vasarely Museum
- Csontváry Museum
- Király Street
The ruins of the Roman city of Sopianae have been excavated all around Pécs, but maybe the most compelling discovery is the Early Christian Mausoleum. Uncovered in 1975 and now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site this mausoleum is one of several tomb monuments going back to the 4th century. Like others found in Pécs, the cemetery chapel is unusual...
Close by is another sepulchral early-Christian building that has no equivalent in the Danube region. This chapel with seven apses was discovered between four and six metres below the ground. Construction appears to have been broken off suddenly, and there’s no record of any burial taking place here. It contains the St Peter and Paul burial chamber,...
Built on the foundations of an early-Christian basilica from the 4th century, Pécs Cathedral flourished during the mid-11th century reign of Peter Orseolo. The building has Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and neo-Romanesque architecture, as well as vestiges from Ottoman times when it became a warehouse. Most of the facade is from a neo-Romanesque r...
This museum for the 19th-century ceramicist and factory owner Vilmos Zsolnay is in the oldest house in Pécs, dating back to at least 1324. In the 15th century Hungary’s first library was established inside, while under the Ottoman occupation a century later it became the official residence of the city’s chief Imam. The ceramics factory founded by Z...
East of the historic centre, a whole cultural and recreational district has been set up around the renovated previously disused Zsolnay factory buildings. This transformation coincided with Pécs’ time as European Capital of Culture in 2010, when cultural institutions also moved into this five-hectare quarter. The University of Pécs’ Art Faculty was...
As the place where people gather in Pécs’ city centre, Széchenyi Square was also spruced up for the city’s spell as European Capital of Culture in 2010. On the borders of this long, irregular plaza are some of Pécs’ big landmarks, like the city and council halls, the Nádor Hotel and the round dome of the Pasha Qasim Mosque-turned church, which we’l...
Impossible to miss on the north side of Széchenyi Square is a striking reminder of Pécs’ 150-year Ottoman occupation in the 16th and 17th centuries. This place of worship went up in 1580. And although its minaret was brought down a few decades after the Habsburgs retook the city at the start of the 18th century, the octagonal main body of the mosqu...
The founder of the Op Art (Optical Art) movement, Victor Vasarely was born in Pécs in 1908. At 24 he moved to France, where he spent the rest of his career. In 1968 he donated a trove of serigraph prints, sculptures and tapestries to his home city. These were put on public display in 1976 and sum up the progress of his career, from his early Bauhau...
An eccentric and widely travelled painter, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka never enjoyed much acclaim during his lifetime. But since his death in 1919 his idiosyncratic work, influenced by post-Impressionism and Expressionism, has gained an audience, particularly in Hungary where his paintings now sell for more than a million Euros. One of the first to r...
Between Széchenyi Square and Felsőmalom Street, this elegant thoroughfare in the heart of Pécs is traffic-free. On the route are galleries, restaurants, cafes, with terraces under awnings and neatly clipped lime trees. The stucco-fronted Neoclassical and Historicist houses add a real sense of ceremony, and at some of the properties you can look thr...
🗎Percosova [Percoşova] # Gătaia (Timiş); Berkeszfalu, Perkoszova; Perkossowa (g); Перкосова-Perkosova (srp); 1353 poss. Berkez, 1358 de Berkez szn.
Birth Mar 1899 - Percosova, Hungary. Death 25 Oct 1990 - Shand, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mother Anna Dasinger. Father Karoly (Carl) Haselhan. Show more. Born ...
Bakowa / Bacova / Bakovar* 1783. Banater Hof / Banatski Dvor / Itvarnak, Torzsudvarnok. Banat Topola / Banatska Topola / Toroktopolya, Topolya*. Baratzhausen / Barateaz / Baraczhaza. Baumgarten / Livada / Fakert. Bawanischte / Bavaniste / Homokbalvanyos.
Research genealogy for Karoly (Carl) Haselhan of Percosova, Hungary, as well as other members of the Haselhan family, on Ancestry®.
