The most famous building in the city centre, built in the 16th century in Renaissance style. Originally a ground floor building, a floor was added in the 1560s. The ground floor was once used as shops, the upper floors as apartments. The building takes its name from the technique used on its façade, which originated…
On the site of the former Chernel or Festetics Palace, in the early 1700s, there were two smaller houses owned by the Count Nádasdy family. They were united by József Kelcz, lawyer of the Transdanubian District Court and later adviser to the royal chancellery, who had the buildings rebuilt in the late Baroque-Rococo style in…
At 16 Chernel Street you will find the medieval Zwinger, also known as the Old Bastion. It was built in the 14th century and served as the southwestern corner bastion of the former city wall during wartime. The wall extended 10 meters from the outer wall, providing a gateway to the Sarkos Bastion, or Little…
The building was built in the Art Nouveau style by the lawyer Sándor Szemző in the early 1910s. Sándor Szemző, was born into an Israelite family in 1876, was a trainee lawyer in Budapest, and after his marriage moved to Kőszeg, where he opened an office and worked as a city councilor. During the First…
The former Svetics House, later Sigray House, is of medieval origin, decorated in the 17th century with Renaissance and later Baroque elements. It was once the home of the “republican count”, the director of the Society of Reformers, James Sigray. He took part in the Martinovich conspiracy and was sentenced to death and executed on…
A joint series of the University of Pannonia, the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture project and the FTI-iASK.
14th of September 2021, at 6 p.m. – Veszprém H-8200 Szabadság sq. 9.
Date: 13 September 2021, Monday 18.00 (CET)
Location: online streaming on FTI-iASK Facebook page and Zoom platform
The article was written by Izabella Agárdi and was released in Hungarian Cultural Studies, vol. 14. in 2021.
Date: 16-17 September 2021.
Location: Kőszeg H-9730 Chernel u. 14. at iASK
A brand new book, Central Europe: Thirty Years of Reforms : Problems, Challenges, Prospects was released, edited by Lyubov Shishelina.
The article was written by György Schöpflin and was released in American Diplomacy, on August 1, 2021.
On the occasion of the 26th International Summer University, Professor Miszlivetz was asked about his professional career, the KRAFT Program, and his plans for the future.
Date: Friday 03 September 2021, at 14:00 and Saturday 04 September 2021 at 15.30
Venue: Budapest, 1054 Vigadó sq. stage and Vörösmarty sq. stage
More than 30 years after their momentous book “Projekt Mitteleuropa”, which had been written before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek revisit the political space between Germany, Russia and the Mediterranean.
Navigating Troubled Waters – Dedicated to George Schöpflin on his 80th Birthday / ed. Ferenc Miszlivetz, Attila Pók. Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg, 2020. 336 p.