Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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280 EXCURSIONS AROUND THE TOWN Szpb.................................................................................... Szob is situated at the mouth of the Ipoly River, at the foot of the Börzsöny Mountain Range. It is a railway border crossing. During the Roman Age it was one of the bridge-heads of the river, the limes designating the borderline of the empire. The village survived the Ottoman occupation, but the number of the population had decreased. As a result Slovaks were settled down from the area beyond Nyitra. From the 19th century onwards many of the inhabitants worked in the quarry and the brick factory. The military operations of World War II had affected the settlement that suffered a lot because of its railway bridge. Sights: Baroque Luczenbacher Mansion, originally single-storey, rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century to Ignác Alpár's designs. Between 1931-1950 it was a Lazarist Monastery, then a boarding school. Today it is the Secondary Grammar School of the Lazarist Order-Börzsöny Museum (1960) Programmes: Town Days of Szob (June-July) Roman Catholic church with the statue of St Ladislaus Márianosztra....................... It was a highly favoured resort of King Louis the Great of Hungary, who settled the Pauline Order here in 1352 and had a church built for them dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The order was originally founded in Hungary. The monastery was destroyed during the Ottoman occupation. The reconstructed building housed the Paulines until their dissolution in 1786. They had some notable students as novices like Ferenc Verseghy, Pál Ányos and Benedek Virág, all men of letters. Later the building was used as a military storehouse, then a hospital, while in 1858 it became a prison. At first female prisoners were kept here under the supervision of nuns of the St Vincent Order. In 1948 it was transformed into a workhouse; later in 1950 into a male prison. The village itself was formed after the Ottoman occupation. Its population is of Slovak origin. Quarrying is still significant. Sights: Monastery with a Gothic church rebuilt in Baroque style (1717-1729), with the holy picture The buildings of the “Pálos” church, monastery and prison of the Chestochowa Madonna on the main altar, richly decorated side altars, pulpit and chest of organ; late Baroque two-storey parish house (c. 1800) • statue of King Louis the Great (2001) - Village Museum Programmes: patronál festival of the Five Sacred Wounds of Christ on the first weekend of July • patronál festival of Mater Dolorosa at the beginning of September • patronál festival of the Immaculate Conception at the first weekend of December • Világé Day and fair (June)
