Those considering Tárnok as a travel destination can explore leisure activities at Tárnoki Katlan and the town’s long history as distinct focal points. The range extends from a specific sports facility to archaeological traces and historic building styles.
Leisure and Getting Your Bearings
Road 8104 runs through Tárnok between Érd and Biatorbágy. Érd and Biatorbágy provide useful reference points for locating the town.
Tárnoki Katlan has a covered, heated small-sided football pitch with artificial turf. There is also an air-conditioned bowling alley with two lanes. The contrast is in the activity and facilities: a heated artificial-turf pitch or air-conditioned bowling lanes. Tárnoki Katlan invites visitors to go bowling. Check the access conditions for the football pitch directly with the venue; for the bowling alley, it is advisable to enquire about current availability.
Archaeological Traces and Local History
Neolithic traces have been found along the Benta stream near Ötház-puszta, Kis-Berki-dűlő and Berki-puszta in Tárnok. Several settlements and burial grounds dating from the 24th to the 9th century BC are also known in the territory of Tárnok. Together, these sites mark very different periods in the town’s early history. Their geographical scope differs: Neolithic traces are located along the Benta stream near three named places, whereas the settlements and burial grounds relate to the territory of Tárnok as a whole, a wider geographical area within its early history.
Tárnok was first mentioned in the late 1250s, together with the neighbouring village of Deszka, under the name Tavarnuk. Other recorded forms of the name from the 13th to the 16th century include Tawarnucweg, Taarnuk, Thárnok and Tharnuk. Compared with the prehistoric traces, these place names mark a medieval stage in Tárnok’s history.
Cellar Construction, Chapel and Traditions
The cellars at Szőlőhegy preserve a distinctive local style of cellar construction. Examples of this style can also be found at Öreghegy and in Zapánszki. Another historic feature lies beneath Szőlőhegy: mining in the 19th century left an underground network of tunnels covering several thousand square metres. Thus, a local style of cellar construction and the effects of mining stand side by side as two distinct aspects of the town’s built history.
Construction of the Szent-Rókus Chapel began around 1740, out of gratitude for the end of the plague epidemic of 1739.
The first Slovak settlers from Felvidék arrived in Tárnok in the 1720s, when it belonged to the Illésházy family. More Slovak families followed after the devastation caused by the plague epidemic of 1739/1740. Sibálás and Júdásolás also feature in Tárnok’s cultural history: these customs are associated with Slovak or, more broadly, Slavic traditions.
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