Discover Nagykutas

Nagykutas brings together historic traces of village life and a landscape where three hills remain clearly visible. This offers several ways to shape your trip: sacred architectural history, traditional crafts, rural household furnishings and traces of the former settlement layout. You can explore individual buildings and collections as well as features of the surrounding area.

Village history between the church and the collection

The parish church of Szent Jakab Apostol was built in 1740 and is located on Diósi utca. Its year of construction provides a clear date in the history of the village. Those interested in sacred architecture can explore the church as a focus in its own right, alongside evidence of crafts and folk culture. Nagykutas’ history is also reflected in its religious heritage.

Another way to explore the village is through Kónya László, who set up his own blacksmith’s workshop in Nagykutas. It now contains all the tools that belonged to an old village smithy. The focus is on the equipment of a traditional workshop. Unlike the church, whose construction date is known, the blacksmith’s workshop primarily tells the story of the craft and its tools.

Since 2007, the folk collection has been housed in a detached former milk house. It includes the complete furnishings of a room and a kitchen, reminiscent of old farmhouses. While the blacksmith’s workshop is defined by work tools, the focus here is on domestic furnishings and the layout of the rooms. As a former milk house, the building had a different previous use from the blacksmith’s workshop.

Cellars and a protected sweet chestnut

At Pöröshegy 64, in the Nagykutas vineyard, stands a listed cellar belonging to a wine press house. Built around 1870, it is no longer in use. Unlike the row of cellars west of the village, this is a single building with an approximate construction date and a clearly stated former purpose. Its protected status and current disuse are also part of its significance.

West of the village, a row of cellars dating from the 18th and 19th centuries lies on a hillside. The cellars once had wattle walls and thatched roofs. Here, the focus is on several cellars and a longer period of construction, whereas the wine press house is described as a single building dating approximately to 1870. The wattle and thatch add specific details about the row’s former construction to its historical context.

An old sweet chestnut stands in the vineyard west of the village and is estimated to be more than 500 years old. It has been protected since 1974. Two different details are important to its history: the tree’s estimated age and the year it was granted protection.

Landscape and religious heritage

Kalamár-kút in Nagykutas is now known as a spring and marshy area. This landscape feature differs from the protected sweet chestnut in the vineyard: Kalamár-kút is notable for its spring and wetland, while the chestnut is an individual old tree with protected status.

Nagykutas was once made up of three separate parts; because of the local geography, the three hills are still clearly visible. The former settlement layout and its present-day visibility represent different time periods: the division into three parts describes the settlement’s history, while the hills remain part of the landscape today.

In Nagykutas, religious folk art can be seen beyond the parish church: 15 crosses, a statue of the Virgin Mary and a statue of Saint Florian preserve the old tradition of popular Baroque devotion. Alongside the individual church building, these crosses and statues provide further forms of religious heritage.

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