Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County Northern Great Plain Hungary
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well as the cluster of probably the most beautiful village churches of the Hungarian ecclesiastical architecture and art from the Middle Ages. The churches of Csaroda, Lónya, Csengersima, Sonkád, Nyírbátor or Csenger are outstanding relics, while Máriapócs is one of the most famous and visited pilgrimage places of the Carpathian-Basin. Romanesque, Gothicism and Baroque left a unique heritage behind embodying Fairy-field’s most precious values of sacral architecture. Máriapócs is a holy place of the Hungarian Greek-Catholics, Nyíregyháza is a „stronghold” of God and His Lutherans, while the region of Szatmár-Bereg is the cradle of Protestants. Stories of defensiveness and rebellion are also there in the early-modern history of the region with the memories of castles and the walls of fortresses. The community called Szabolcs has the biggest and best preserved earth castle of Central-Europe from the times of the Hungarian Conquest. Vaja is unique on the Great Plain with its Renaissance castle, while Kisvárda boasts one of the most significant strongholds there. Nyírbátor is the ancient nest of the Báthory family, representing an inseparable part of Hungarian history. Among the secular buildings of Baroque, Classicism and Eclecticism, the glitzy castles of the county aristocracy stand out. The Andrássy castle in Tiszadob, the Lónyay castle in Tuzsér, the Tomcsányi castle in Vásárosnamény, the Kölcsey-Kende mansion in Cégénydányád are all gems of the architecture of this period. This area stands guard for the culture and values of the past periods.
