The town of Hernádvécse was inhabited by German settlers, “the Germans of the Queen” during the reign of Andrew II, all of whom were subjects of Beatrice d’Este, Queen consort of Hungary. The coat of arms of the town – designed in this modern age by Sándor Józsa, an artist from Debrecen, by order of Tibor Takács, visionary of the mansion hotel – evokes the first written records dating back to 1235, in which the settlement was referred to as “Weytha,” the name it was called at the time.
The town was transferred in the ownership of the city of Kassa (Košice) in 1491, before it was bestowed, along with several other villages, by King Louis II on Balázs Szőllősi, the first known ancestor of the Vécsey family, in 1517. The family remained proprietors of the town from this time until the mid-1800’s.
History refused to spare this region too. In the 1640’s the Turkish troops raiding the area invaded the Abaúj region and devastated the surrounding villages too. Hernádvécse became abandoned for nearly a century, to such an extent that in 1696 even its Lutheran church collapsed.
The village was repopulated by Hungarian and Ukrainian settlers, well after the uprising against the Habsburgs led by Francis II Rákóczi, in 1730. Rebuilding the town was carried out at a sweeping pace, and dynamic economic and public administration development commenced, whereby a court of law was established in 1735. Several large-scale buildings were erected between 1735 and 1760, and the town’s structure wedged among the hills had evolved.
The town was transferred in the ownership of the city of Kassa (Košice) in 1491, before it was bestowed, along with several other villages, by King Louis II on Balázs Szőllősi, the first known ancestor of the Vécsey family, in 1517. The family remained proprietors of the town from this time until the mid-1800’s.
History refused to spare this region too. In the 1640’s the Turkish troops raiding the area invaded the Abaúj region and devastated the surrounding villages too. Hernádvécse became abandoned for nearly a century, to such an extent that in 1696 even its Lutheran church collapsed.
The village was repopulated by Hungarian and Ukrainian settlers, well after the uprising against the Habsburgs led by Francis II Rákóczi, in 1730. Rebuilding the town was carried out at a sweeping pace, and dynamic economic and public administration development commenced, whereby a court of law was established in 1735. Several large-scale buildings were erected between 1735 and 1760, and the town’s structure wedged among the hills had evolved.