GCPMFA Traditional Geocache
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You can get to the chapel on a forest path with tourist signs first red, then yellow, starting at 9km-stone (N46°59.597’,E16°45.302’) on the road from Vasvár toward Gersekarát.
From Petomihályfa:turn on the hillside path at the stone (N46°59.339’,E16°46.889’) and follow the line of poles of electric wires.
Description:
If it spoken about the wooden cellars, everibody remembers the famous cellar line in Cák.
However, not far from them, we have another, less known region, so called Vasi Hegyhát where you can find examples of folk achitecture in a bigger quantity and in their even more archaic forms than in Cák.
The village, which is situated in the mid-southern part of the region Vasi Hegyhát, is bordered to the west and south by Sárvíz, a brook running into the River Zala. You can find this village in the southern part of Vas County, 9 kms from Vasvár.
The first settlement on Sárvíz was first mentioned in documents in 1308.
There is a baroque chapel on the hill, the St. Bertalan Chapel. It dates back to the very early times, but we do not have any exact data of its foundation. Its landowners were the members of Festetics-family.
Several cellars and press-houses on Barkócza Hill and Öreg Hill are under protection as historic monuments.
On the bank of brook Sárvíz, there was a castle, so called Márványko Castle in the Middle Ages. You can see its moats well also in these days.
The touristic attractions of the village are the more than half a dozen protected buildings on the Oreg Hill: the church building of chapel named after St. Bertalan and the cellars and press-houses. You can find either wooden houses or buildings with thatched roof among these masterpieces of folk architecture.
The most of the protected buildings of vineyard-hills in the region Vasi Hegyhát are found here, in Petomihályfa.
The village itself could be spiritual or cutural centre of the region at one time. The patronal festival and pilgrimage on 24 August refer to it. This festival takes place in the St. Bertalan Chapel from the 17. century on the Barkócza Hill . The building of the chapel, wich has only one aisle and a semi-circular apsis, was renovated in 1967, and it is now in good condition.
In its surroundings, the row of protected cellars are also in good condition. Even in 1992,in front of the most attractive wooden cellar there was a signboard of pinebranches: its insctiption ’Buschenschank Molnár’ invited travellers for a drink of wine, but it has disappeared by now. The cultivated wineyards, the beautifully renovated
cellars and their surroundings, the chesnut-trees standing among the press-houses and edging the streets remind us the excellence of vine growing in Vas County.
Unfortunately, what happens on the other hills in Zala, happens on Petomihályfa Hills too: the owners cut out the vine-plants and plant pine trees for Chirstmas because of the better income. When the choice is big, the pine trees remain in the gardens and shadow the four or five lines of wine-plants in the neighbouring vineyard. The pine trees spoil the quality of soil, and the harmony of the landscape as well. The recently built weekend-houses do not match well with the landscape either.
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