# Kőszegszerdahely

Kőszegszerdahely is a village in Vas county, in the district of Kőszeg, 5 km-s from the Hungarian-Austrian border (Bozsok-Rohonc border crossing).

## Location

Kőszegszerdahely is located in western Hungary. Neighboring settlements: Bozsok, Velem, Cák, Kőszegdoroszló and Perenye.

## Transport
### Roads

The village is the center of the local road network of Kőszeghegyalja (Kőszeg Foothills), which is connected to the Szombathely-Kőszeg secondary main road (Main Road 87).

### Distance from airports

| Country | Capital/Other settlement | Distance (km) | Airport | Distance (km) | Time |
| Distance from certain capital and their airports: ||||||
| Slovakia | Bratislava | 136 | Airport Bratislava | 146 | 2 h 54 m |
| Hungary | Budapest | 238 | Liszt Ferenc Nk. Repülőtér | 257 | 4 h 31 m |
| Croatia | Zagreb | 210 | Zračna luka Zagreb | 236 | 3 h 49 m |
| Slovenian | Ljubljana | 283 | Aerodom Ljubljana | 285 | 4 h 24 m |
| Austria | Wien | 118 | Flughafen Wien-Schwechat | 119 | 2 h 30 m |
| Distance from other airports: ||||||
| Hungary | Győr | 103 | Győr-Pér | 130 | 2 h 37 m |
| Hungary | Sármellék | 102 | Hévíz-Balaton Airport | 114 | 2 h 45 m |
| Austria | Graz | 107 | Flughafen Graz | 110 | 1 h 47 m |

## History

There was a market place in the place of the village already before the Mongol invasion. In the Middle Ages, villages belonged to a castle or a lordship.
| Year(s) | Castle or lordship where it be longed | Squire(s) | Event | Antecedent | Hungarian King |
| 1279 | Saint Vid Castle | Kőszegi (earlier: Németújvári), Miklós | Sharing on estate | Death of Henrik Kőszegi (earlier: Németújvári) in 1274 | IV. László (Arpad dynasty) |
| after 1291 | Lordship of Rohonc | | Destruction of Saint Vid Castle | The peace treaty of Hainburg in 1291 austrian Duke Albrecht I and hungarian King András III | III. András (Arpad dynasty) |
| 1374 | Lordship of Rohonc | Rohonci family (descendants of Miklós Németújvári) | | | I. Lajos (Anjou) |
| 1404 | Lordship of Rohonc | Garai family | Grant | László Nápolyi's performance and expulsion from the country in 1402-1403 | Zsigmond (Luxemburg dynasty) |
| 1445 | | I. Frigyes German emperor occupied Kőszeg and Rohonc | German Occupation | Hungarian defeat against the Turks in the Battle of Varna in 1444 | V. László (Habsburg) |
| 1477 | Lordship of Rohonc | Pesnitzer, Ulrik | King Matthias's Austrian campaign | Habsburg-Jagello Alliance against Hungarian King. (1476) | I. Mátyás (Hunyadi) |
| after 1477 | Bozsok and Szerdahely | Bornemissza, János | Grant | The removal of Bozsok and Szerdahely from the lordship of Rohonc | I. Mátyás (Hunyadi) |
| from 1526 | Bozsok and Szerdahely | Sibrik family | Grant | Death of János Bornemissza (1526, Castle of Bratislava) | I. Ferdinand (Habsburg) |
| 1616-1848 | partly Bozsok and Szerdahely | Sibrik family | | | |
| 1616-1848 | partly lordship of Rohonc | Batthyány family | Purchase | Gábor Sibrik in Turkish captivity | II. Mátyás (Habsburg) |
In 1532, Turkish troops besieging Kőszeg together with the other villages in the area burned down Kőszegszerdahely. The inhabitants of the villages fled to the Castle of Kőszeg and, together with the citizens of Kőszeg, led by Captain Miklós Jurisich, stopped the Turks.

## Sights
### Ereszténymajor

Here is a 120 years old Cedrus atlantica.

## Famous people

* Lakner, Tamás. Conductor, guitarist, music teacher, leader of the Szélkiáltó band.
* Seregély, István. Archbishop. From 1974 to 1981 was priest in Kőszegszerdahely.
* Jagodics, Zoltán. Five times a member of the Hungary national football team.