Sights of Kehidakustány

Sights of Kehidakustány:

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• Monuments of Kehida:

  The Baroque-style Deák Mansion is located in Kehida, on the corner of Kúria Street and Dózsa György Street (Kúria u. 6–8 – Dózsa György u. 6–8). Plot number: 88/2–5, monument protection registry number: 6512.

  • Today it houses a charming museum.
  • Permanent exhibition: “The Wise Man of the Homeland, the Pride of Zala”, created for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc Deák.
  • The bust of Ferenc Deák (György Zala, 1928) stands in the courtyard.

  Saint Nicholas Cemetery Chapel (Romanesque style). Plot number: 045/2, monument protection registry number: 6511.

  Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baroque style). Plot number: 77/2, monument protection registry number: 6510.

• Monuments of Kustány:

  The Roman Catholic wooden belfry, built in the 19th century and carefully restored in 1987, stands on Hunyadi Street on a traffic island, surrounded by a slatted fence. Plot number: 612/2, monument protection registry number: 6513.

  • Seven posts reinforced with slanting struts, resting on a beam grid.
  • Shingle-covered tent roof with a double cross on top.
  • Equipped with one bell.

  The Gothic church ruin is located on the outskirts of the village, in the forest by the Zala River. Plot number: 0376/2, monument protection registry number: 8894.

  The east-facing brick-walled church in the Zala Valley was built in the 14th century.

  • Today only part of the western façade and shorter sections of the northern and southern walls remain.
  • A section of the western façade is preserved up to the height of the gable wall; the adjoining wall sections are much lower.
  • The entrance once opened in the central axis of the western façade.
  • Above the entrance, a truncated tower starts from a pair of corbels, with fragments of a row of pointed-arch blind arcades on both sides.
  • Remains of Baroque and medieval vaulting are visible on the western wall.
  • In the Middle Ages it served as the parish church of Alsókustány (also known as Egyházaskustány); its priest is mentioned in the papal tithe register of 1333.
  • Severely damaged during the Turkish era, restored in the 18th century, then gradually fell into ruin in the 19th century.