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MISKOLC
www.hellomiskolc.hu
Miskolc
There is a small stream, Szinva that runs through Miskolc, inviting for
making friendship, running through intimate squares and forming
attractive terraces. There is a scenic lookout tower standing over
the city, historical stairways and many-angled alleys leading to the
modern concrete colossus which overlooks the surroundings and
provides its visitors with views over many kilometres: the lazy
flower-clock, the Bridge of Lovers and the playful Miskolc Girls statue
are just a pinpoint from here, and many visitors are looking for the
silhouette of the Cave Bath among the lush nature, surrounded by
Bükk Hills, beating beyond the greyness of the tower blocks and the
solitude of gloomy-scarlet chimneys.
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Past ages
People walking with open eyes might discover the fact that they are walk-
ing on many hundred- and thousand-year-old memories, and it is only the
boldest imagination that can recall the events here millions of years ago:
cypresses sweating from heat, scary jaws, lean cavemen… This world is
evoked in the exhibition windows of the Pannon Sea Museum. As we close
our eyes, a seventy-thousand-year-old gesture will shape out in the brief
silence, and we might be able to discover the silhouette of some man be-
hind the opposite bush, rhythmically hammering over something with
a chopper in his hands…
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Knight’s game in the Castle of Diósgyőr
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The chopper raps and knocks, however, if
we are really able to plunge into the past, this
rhythmical hammering might become disturb-
ing: a close formation of horsemen is coming,
pennons are lashed in the dusk wind, com-
mands are raised, a horn whistles, a bell tolls,
heavy chains are creaking… it is the draw-
bridge of Diósgyőr Castle. There are noise, mu-
sic, mess, beggars, knights, sorcerers, witches in
the graceful castle. The queen in the innermost
room looks up from her embroidery and gives
a sign: pipers, drummers, lords and servants
play music and dance. Witches, knights and
tricksters meet each other for a while, then
the king’s steps stamp on the stone floor of
the knight’s hall, while Pauline monks pray in
silence in the Szentlélek Monastery. Although
the stones have been ruined by the ravages of
time, those who watch carefully, might hear,
see and learn the secrets of bygone people.
The exhibition about the city history, set in
the oldest non-ecclesiastical buildings of the
city, is aimed at presenting Miskolc in the Re-
form Ages. In the Papszer street building of the
Ottó Herman Museum, we can visit the salon of
Bertalan Szemere and evoke his contemporar-
ies and fellows.
7 million years old swamp cypress
Szemere and his age in the museum
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industrial heritage
What kind of ingenuity might it have been that inspired our ances-
tors to discover that if they heat some rocks, those will exude metals,
making them able to produce a vast number of different objects?
Either swords or ploughs, this does not matter, as those who visit
Garadna Valley, will be let into one of the greatest wonders of the
human brain: this is the millennial and centuries-old fight of man,
squeezing iron from hard ore. The cold stone building, standing in Új-
massa, was the ancient furnace, and still shows a friendly look when
thousands of tourists walk, run in front of it, behind it and over it,
however, there are many who think they can see its hidden face, the
blue-red-yellowish magic of smoldering ore as it runs over, embrac-
ing the centuries-long history of steel manufacturing in Miskolc.
Selection from the “Selmec” Library
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A flash of thought from the world of strictly
echoing hammers among the quiet hills and
the playful stream leads us to the inviting
alleys of Banská Štiavnica, a splendid town
hidden in a valley below a distant pine forest.
Those watching carefully, may already hear the
tapping of the boots of young men, wearing
black togas and smoking long pipes, hurrying
to their lodges, with their wise books, held
tightly to their cloak. These books reveal the
secrets of the ore, the newest knowledge that
an academy in Europe can offer – and here we
can see these heavy books, as the shelves of
the Collection of University History and Selmec
Library of Historic Monuments will show you all
of them.
As we stay attentive while creasing the
slightly rough paper of our forints to be paid
for the entrance ticket, we might not even think
of a special paper mill in Diósgyőr, not far from
here, as its hammers grind, its mixers mix and
its sieves filter the material which we call paper
in the end. Moreover, what is made here is
more than just simple paper, it has an elegant
name: banknote paper.
As standing at the top of Avas Lookout
Tower, we may discover not only the world of
playful streams, restless greenery, lean rocks
and stubborn ores, but weird lines of chimneys,
bronze-red spots and hot arenas – rooms and
halls which once belonged to the iron factory.
Spaces of this industrial monstrosity are
sometimes refilled with life: the slow factory
building hosts a skate park and a venue for pop
music events.
Forging at the “Fazola” smelter
Emblem of the Diósgyőr Paper Factory
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