Nyíregyháza - Nyíregyháza

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Nyíregyháza - outdated: Mestecǎneşti (Romanian); Birkenkirchen (German)
CountySzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Residents
116.799 (2019)
height
116 m
Tourist info webhttp://www.nyiregyhaza.hu/
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Nyíregyháza

Nyíregyháza is the county seat of the Hungarian county Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg in north-east Hungary and with approx. 120,000 inhabitants the seventh largest city in the country. Due to its proximity to the borders to Romania and the Ukraine as well as very good road and rail connections, the city is an important transit point.

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The extensive boundaries of the city also include numerous functionally independent villages and settlements, including the town of Sóstó, which is home to a spa, an open-air museum and the zoo.

getting there

By plane

The nearest airport with scheduled service is in Debrecen, about 50 km south of the city. From there the low-cost airline offers Wizz Air Regular connections to London Luton and Eindhoven.

Liszt Ferenc Airport in Budapest is approx. 350 km to the west.

By train

Nyíregyháza is well connected with express and regional trains from Budapest (Keleti), there are also direct trains Budapest-Kiev (via Mukacheve) through the city. The rail connections to Romania are interrupted, you have to change trains in Debrecen.

By bus

In the street

Distances
Debrecen50 km
Uzhhorod95 km
Satu Mare107 km
Miskolc110 km
Košice123 km
Mukacheve125 km
Budapest235 km
  • From Budapest on the M3 motorway (approx. 230 km), which bypasses the city to the south.
  • From Debrecen on trunk road 4
  • From Ukraine via the border crossing at Chop (from Uzhhorod) or at Berehove (from Mukacheve).
  • From Romania via the Petea border crossing (from Satu Mare)

mobility

Nyíregyháza has a well-developed bus network that is operated by SZABOLCS VOLÁN Zrt. is operated.

Timetables, partly separated into winter (Téli) and summer (Nyári) plans in Hungarian

Representation of the bus routes on the map

Tourist Attractions

Churches

  • Evangelical Martin Luther Church. Erected 1784-86 in late Baroque style according to plans by Giuseppe Aprilis.
  • Hungarian Greek Catholic Church. Erected 1885-1909 in the Byzantine style.
  • Roman Catholic Cathedral. Neo-Romanesque architectural style, three aisles, red brick, two 44 m high towers.

Buildings

  • town hall. Erected in 1892 (Kossuth Square) in the style of eclecticism.
  • House of the county seat. Built 1891–1893 according to plans by Ignác Alpár.
  • Sparpalast. Historic bank building, built in 1912 in the eclectic style by József Hubert.
  • Szabolcs Takarék Bank building. In the architectural style of eclecticism with a historical counter hall and contemporary stained glass.
  • Nyírvíz Palace. Erected by Gyula Papp and Ferenc Szabolcs 1910-1912 in an eclectic style.

Monuments

  • Lajos Kossuth. de Kossuth et Udvard (1802-1894), lawyer, politician and one of the leaders of the Hungarian uprising of independence against Austria from 1848/49. Sculptor Gyula Bethlen.
  • Fountain with three graces. Made of bronze on Kossuth Square, artist Tibor Borbás.
  • First World War Memorial, in the park in front of the county seat. Erected in 1928 by Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl. The main character is a hero fighting a dragon, the two subgroups symbolized the beginning of the fight and the end.
  • Pro Patria Mortui. Memorial to the 12,000 victims of World War II, erected in 1991.
  • The Hungarian hussar. Bronze statue in honor of the hussar regiment that lived in the city from 1869-1944.
  • Memorial plaque for Count János Esterházy (1901-1957). Member of the Esterházy family, politician of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia and the First Slovak Republic.

Museums

  • Jósa András Museum. On the history of Nyíregyháza from the Stone Age and the Great Migration to modern times.
  • Sóstó open-air museum. With historic buildings and recreated events of the past.
  • Sóstó Zoo. About 5000 animals.

activities

  • Sóstó Spa

shop

  • Interspar
  • Tesco
  • Lidl
  • Aldi
  • Parade
  • penny
  • Plaza
  • Market hall

kitchen

  • Korona étterem

nightlife

  • Zsigmond Móricz Theater

accommodation

health

  • Tóth Árpard, Sóstói út Nyíregyháza. Dentist.

Practical advice

trips

  • The locality Sóstó (10 km north) administratively still belongs to Nyíregyháza. There is a spa, the zoo and the open-air museum.
  • Mátészalka (approx. 70 km east): beautiful, well-preserved small town
  • Nyírbátor (approx. 50 km southeast): numerous medieval churches.
  • Onward journey to Debrecen, Miskolc; as well as in the Ukraine (Uzhhorod, Mukacheve) or Romania (Satu Mare).
  • 30 km further wine village Tokaj

literature

Web links

https://www.nyiregyhaza.hu/ - Nyíregyháza official website

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