In Kakasd, several places of remembrance lead to different chapters of the town’s history. The Faluház combines its role as a cultural centre with the Székely Tower and a public sculpture composition. The Tájház features named collection rooms representing different traditions; a memorial, plaque and ship model provide further points of interest. Visitors interested in architecture, personal legacies or the remembrance of historical settlements can explore these subjects individually rather than combining them into a single story.
Faluház: Cultural Centre and Székely Tower
The Faluház serves as Kakasd’s cultural centre and as a venue for numerous local and regional events. Its large hall is suitable for weddings and corporate events. It is more than 300 square metres in size and can accommodate up to 299 people. As event details may change, confirm information about the hall with the venue before making plans.
In front of the Faluház stands the sculpture composition “Együttélés – Living Together”. It includes a ship that refers to the settlement of the Swabians across the Danube. Another ship motif is located in the Emlékpark on a street in Kakasd: there stands a miniature replica of a 20-metre-long ship, commemorating the settlement of the Germans. The representations differ in form and reference: here, the ship is part of a composition with a named connection to the Danube; there, the miniature ship itself serves as the commemorative symbol.
The Faluház’s Székely Tower evokes the memory of the former homeland in Bukovina. In front of its entrance, five Székely gates commemorate five villages: Hadikfalva, Andrásfalva, Józseffalva, Istensegíts and Fogadjisten. The exterior façade of the demolished church from Andrásfalva is depicted on the outside of the tower. The name Andrásfalva thus appears both in the list of five villages and in connection with the church depicted.
Kakasd’s Székely Gate stands in a park on Road 6. The park is bounded by Faluárok, Belac Street and the Rákpatak. A restored Székely cart of the fürgentyűs type was installed on the green space beside the gate in 2020. The year indicates when it was installed and provides a specific date for this exhibit.
Collection Rooms in the Tájház
Two rooms in the Tájház have names that indicate their respective focuses. The Swabian room, “Amri néni szobája”, is named after the midwife Váradi Józsefné Studer Anna, who was born in Kakasd; her personal legacy is exhibited there. By contrast, the Bukovina Székely living room, “Kisház”, brings together the personal legacies of the Bukovina Székely and the Upper Hungarians. Thus, one room centres on the memory and personal legacy of a specific midwife born in Kakasd, while the other presents the traditions of two groups.
Memorials and Local History
The memorial in Kakasd commemorates the victims of the First and Second World Wars. Its plaques bear the names of those deported, missing and fallen. The plaque behind the Ulmer Schachtel offers a different form of remembrance: as a copper relief, it presents an abridged history of the settlements in Kakasd in Hungarian and German. The two sites therefore differ both in subject and in how they present it: the memorial names those affected, while the plaque summarises the local history of the settlements.
The Turul statue is also among the town’s more recently dated commemorative markers: it was installed in 2020. Together with the gates, the depiction of the church and the collection rooms, it offers another way to explore Kakasd’s cultural heritage, without suggesting that these different testimonies all tell the same story.
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