Balatonudvari temető

A bizarre and unique cemetery with round-shaped tombstones. Amazing and totally unexpected

It is also a must however you cannot be really informed about the story of the cemetery. There is a short description only in Hungarian and German.

It has been repeatedly questioned why and why he carved the tombstones "heart shape"? No definite answer was given to anyone. Eötvös Károly wrote this in his work "End of the Balaton Road": "In Balatonudvari there was once a poor man, a strange man, inventive mind, a village grocer. He figured that the tombstones had to be carved out of a heart shape. Let his feet be planted in the grave of the grave, but that which is left out of the earth may be as the heart of man. Write on it. This is good for the dead, even for the living. "

What else could it be given? Emblematic place, a compulsory stop for all Balaton-lovers! You have such a unique mood.

The XVII. s. they have been standing in the tombs of the court cemetery instead of crosses According to the story, a young sculptor from the high mountains of the Highlands came to the lake. He heard about the basil cliffs and loved them immediately, but maybe a moment earlier he had kidnapped his heart, his daughter, Veronka. She has been to the lake since her little age with her fisherman's father. He couldn't imagine living anywhere else on the shore of the big blue lake, changing the color of the sky and clouds. But the sculptor did not only make beautiful, but he spoke nicely, and after a while Veronka felt that he could be happy in the mountains, and then he often visited. They married. Before leaving, the young woman once again sat in a boat to say goodbye to her beloved Balaton. There was a deep silence around the circle, and if Veronka didn't think of it as a very, bloody fishing girl, she would have felt what it meant. In a snap, the storm from Bakony crashed, and the little loser did not fight with the huge waves. The lake didn't let Veronka ... The young husband in his grief carved a beautiful heart, placed it in front of his wife's tomb, and he stayed in the old fisherman's house, and whoever asked for it had the heart of his loved ones on his grave. Today there are new hearts in the courtyard cemetery. Historians believe that we have heard from Uncle Pista that Uncle Vendor, the Bishop of Veszprém, during the wars of religion, exterminated the Reformed from several villages, who, though honored by the Cross, but placed a stone of heart on their family tombs as a warning. Maybe the bishop understands that the essence of religion is love, a symbol of the heart. Who knows if his heart was a stone, so he didn't hold it ... If we go, stop for a few minutes.