TB Hotel University of Debrecen Traditional Geocache
TB Hotel University of Debrecen
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EN: The cache can be found in the main building of the University of Debrecen. You can ask for it from the desk clerk. Say "geocaching" to get it. The reception desk (see the picture) can be found at the right side of the forefront. Opening hours of the building are 6:30-21:00 (Monday-Saturday), 8:00-16:00 (Sunday). In the case of wheelchair, please use the entrance at the right side of the building.
HU: A láda a Debreceni Egyetem fôépületében található, a portán kell elkérni. A fôépület nyitvatartása: 6:30-21:00 (hétfô-szombat), 8:00-16:00 (vasárnap).
EN:This is not an ordinary geocache. It is established for the purpose of hitchhikers (Travelbugs and GeoCoins). It has easy access for travellers to drop off and pick up trackables. Please do not leave other kinds of trading stuff in this cache. When you take a hitchhiker, leave one. If you take two, trade two and so forth. If you don’t have one to trade go find one first! PLEASE follow these guidelines and make it fun for everyone! Let’s keep this a TRAVEL BUG Hotel Cache.
HU: Ez nem egy szokásos geoláda, ez egy TB hotel, ami a travelbug-ok és geocoinok biztonságos szálláshelye. Kérlek ne hagy semmilyen ajándékot a ládába. Ha kiveszel valamennyi travelbug-ot, vagy geocoint, akkor legalább ugyanannyit tegyél bele (azonnal). Kérlek tartsd be ezeket a szabályokat!
And now I would like to give short information about University of Debrecen. The roots of higher education in Debrecen date back to the founding of the Reformed College in 1538. If we consider this a predecessor of the University of Debrecen, it is the oldest higher education institution in continuous operation in Hungary. National legislature established the Hungarian Royal University with Act XXXVI of 1912 and the institution opened the 1914/1915 academic year with three faculties: Law; Arts, Languages and History; and Reformed Theology.
The new higher education institution welcomed students in the building of the Reformed College but its capacity soon proved to be insufficient. The City of Debrecen offered an extensive territory in the Great Forest area for the university and King Charles IV christened the main building of the newly founded Faculty of Medicine in 1918.
Construction of the central building of the university began only in the second half of the 1920s and completed in 1932 as the third largest investment project of the country after the Parliament building and Buda Castle. Effective construction lasted for four years but even so only one third of the original plans were ultimately realized. The efforts of Kunó Klebelsberg, minister of culture, were instrumental in its realization. Neither Flóris Sem Korb planner nor Árpád Stégmüller chief constructor lived to see the building finished. The new hall of science was christened in May 1932 with the blessing of Bishop Dezso Baltazár. The 29 meter (95 feet) high ceremonial hall of the eclectic and neobaroc building is surrounded by an arcade corridor system. Its walls bear the names of the most renowned professors and students of the Reformed College and in later times those of the university.
In 1921, the Hungarian Royal University took the name of the late prime minister István Tisza who played an outstanding role in its founding and who was assassinated in 1918. The institution came to be known as István Tisza University. In 1949, a few years after the Second World War, the name of István Tisza was abandoned and his statue toppled renaming the institution to the University of Debrecen. It was at this time that the Faculty of Law ceased to exist, the Faculty of Reformed Theology seceded from the university and the Faculty of Science was created.
A 1951 statue of the Council of Ministers established the Faculty of Medicine as a separate university and placed it under the auspices of the Ministry of Health.
Following these structural changes and commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lajos Kossuth the University of Debrecen was renamed to Lajos Kossuth University in 1952. The university saw major constructions in the 1960s. The Sándor Tóthfalusi student hostel was built in 1965 and the six story Chemistry Building in 1969 in response to rapidly developing educational programs in natural sciences.
The unification of the Agricultural University of Debrecen and the Technical School of Szarvas established the University of Agriculture in 1970.
One year later, in 1971, the College of Nursery started its operation in the city of Hajdúböszörmény (continuing as István Wargha College of Pedagogy from the 1990s). Still one year later both the Miklós Ybl College of Contruction and Engineering and the Debrecen Conservatory of the Ferenc Liszt College of Music were signed into existence. The 1990s brought about newer changes in the life of the university. The Medical University of Debrecen established the College Faculty of Health in the city of Nyíregyháza, and in 1993 the university received the old soviet barracks on Kassai street, which is where the Campus Hotel and the city pool are located and where law and economics students study.
On 1st January, 2000 the integrated University of Debrecen was established with eight (five university and three college-level) faculties, four independent institutes and three agricultural research institutes. Today it is one of the largest higher education institutions in the country educating 33.000 students (21.000 are full-time) with over 1.500 professors in 15 faculties and 24 doctoral schools (both of these latter numbers are the highest nationally), which undoubtedly offers the widest spectrum of education and research. Close to two thirds of its professors hold doctoral degrees and 26 of them are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which reflects on the quality of education and research in the institution.
According to the yearly complex performance indicators of the Ministry of National Resources, it is the best higher education institution outside Budapest and among the top three nationally owning about 15% of the performance of all higher education institutions in the country. This outstanding centre of learning possesses huge educational, and research and development capacities and is a major driving force behind the economic, social and cultural growth of the region.
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