Zirc

Place in Veszprém, Hungary

Zirc (German: Sirtz) is a town in Veszprém county, Hungary. It is the administrative seat of Zirc District.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews lived in Zirc.^[1] In 1910, 92 Jews lived in Zirc, Some of them were murdered in the Holocaust.^[2]

Attractions

• Zirc Abbey, a Cistercian abbey
  • Bakony Museum of Natural Sciences, situated in the territory of Zirc Abbey^[3]
  • Reguly Antal Memorial Library
• Zirc Arboretum
• Reguly Antal Ethnographic Museum and Folk Art Workshop

Twin towns – sister cities

Zirc is twinned with:^[4]

• Pohlheim, Germany (1990)
• Baraolt, Romania (1990)
• Nivala, Finland (1998)
• Dertsen, Ukraine (2009)

References

1. Hungarian Jewish census
2. Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
3. Bakony Museum of Natural Sciences
4. "Testvérvárosaink". zirc.hu (in Hungarian). Zirc. Retrieved 2021-03-30.

External links

• Aerial photography: Zirc