Rábaszentmiklós is a village in Hungary, in the Győr-Moson-Sopron county

Gyor-Moson-Sopron

Győr-Moson-Sopron is the name of an administrative county in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia and Austria. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Komárom-Esztergom, Veszprém and Vas. The capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county is Győr...

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Geography, setting, neighbours

The village is situated in the southern part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County, near to the Sokoró

Sokoro

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 hill, in the Marcal-basin. The soil is loosy, limy sand, while between the Marcal

Marcal

The Marcal is a right tributary of the Rába which has its source near Sümeg in the Bakony region of western Hungary. The river flows north and reaches Ukk on the Little Hungarian Plain. It follows a path similar to the Rába, and in many places the two rivers are only a kilometer apart...

 and Rába

Rába

The Rába is a river in southeastern Austria and western Hungary and a right tributary of the Danube. Its source is in Austria, some kilometres east of Bruck an der Mur below Heubodenhöhe Hill. It flows through the Austrian states of Styria and Burgenland, and the Hungarian counties of Vas and...

 rivers clay is the main component of the soil. The landscape is a plain

Plain

In geography, a plain is land with relatively low relief, that is flat or gently rolling. Prairies and steppes are types of plains, and the archetype for a plain is often thought of as a grassland, but plains in their natural state may also be covered in shrublands, woodland and forest, or...

, with some hills and plateaus with 114–120 m above the sea level.

The history of the village

The chronicles mention the village with several names: Kisszentmiklós, Kerekszentmiklós on the basis of its rotunda church from the 11th century. Charters from the Árpád-house kings of Hungary mentions the village first from 1287 A. D., when Ladislaus IV of Hungary gives the village to Gergely de genere Osl, for his home defending merits. During the Mongolian invasion of 1241-1242 the village was destroyed. Lajos I of Hungary gives the village to the Kanizsay family. Then the Türkish invasion destroys the village in the 16th century. The Bishop of Győr refounds the village in 1701. The old rotunda church has been rebuilt in the first years of the 20th century.

Sightseeings

• The rotunda of the 11th century.
• The memorial of the heroes of the World Wars.
• The Marcal
  Marcal
  The Marcal is a right tributary of the Rába which has its source near Sümeg in the Bakony region of western Hungary. The river flows north and reaches Ukk on the Little Hungarian Plain. It follows a path similar to the Rába, and in many places the two rivers are only a kilometer apart...
  
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External links

• http://www.vendegvaro.hu/5-2240
• http://www.vendegvaro.hu/31-6840
• http://www.terkepcentrum.hu/index.asp?go=map&mid=8&tid=17297
• http://www.casa-mia.at/ungarn-information.php/vId/48
• Aerial photographs of Rábaszenmiklós