Kunsziget

Kunsziget is situated in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, on the right side of the Moson Branch of River Danube, at a place easy to access from long-distance road No. 1 and Highway M1 of which it is only a couple of kilometers. If you chose to arrive by road No. 1401 from Szigetköz, you have to cross the Bolgány Bridge.  The Roman watchtower that was once  here, a ship mill to symbolize the ship mills that were characteristic for Szigetköz, Saint Laurence the patron of the church of the village are shown in the coat of arms of Kunsziget.

Kunsziget has a very rich pallet of folk traditions. Its inhabitants still  practice such traditions as are, for example, “betlehemezés” (Christmas carol singing), “Lucázás” (a folk custom on St. Lucy’s day accompanied by singing – fertility charms festival), Eastern sprinkling (sprinkling girls with water – a fertility charm), May-pole driving, etc.. A unique tradition of this village is the” Jézuskeresés” (Seeking for Jesus) made at dawn on Eastern: this tradition is nowhere else alive by now. In the dawn of Eastern day the worshippers pray at crosses erected alongside the roads and imitate the women who visited Jesus’s tomb and spread the good news of resurrection in the morning. By all probabilities, this habit roots in the Turkish times, when the villagers having no churches and priests visited crosses erected alongside the roads to celebrate resurrection and paliogenesy. Until recently, no priest took part in this folk prayer. It is worth to visit the votive chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony and the Catholic church of the village built in 1844 in late neoclassic style.

Sources: http://www.kunsziget.hu/, http://hu.wikipedia.org/, http://www.vendegvaro.hu/