Ikerv\u00e1r is one of the oldest municipalities of Vas county and the seat of the Batthy\u00e1ny family. Count Ladislaus Batthy\u00e1ny, the first Hungarian prime minister lived here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most valuable possession of Ikerv\u00e1r is the statue of Ladislaus Batthy\u00e1ny \u2013 the work of the sculptor Jen\u0151 Bory \u2013 erected using funds from the residents of the municipality. The municipality is proud of its past: its existence as early as the Avarian Age (7th century A.D.) is undermined by excavations. In one of the streets of Ikerv\u00e1r a cemetery from the period of the Hungarian Conquest with 140 graves was found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its church was built in the first decade of the 18th century, however, the altar is from the 15th century. The wife of count Ladislaus Batthy\u00e1ny, Countess Antonia Zichy, inaugurated the flag of the national guard of Vas county on 13 June 1848.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Construction works of the first Hungarian water plant, which has been producing electricity from 1900 to now, began in 1896 in Ikerv\u00e1r. It was planned by the astronomer and engineer Jen\u0151 Gotthard. It is interesting to mention that Ikerv\u00e1r was the first municipality in Hungary to use electricity, 50 years earlier than any other municipality at that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dam was built 6 kilometres from the plant on the river R\u00e1ba and the water came through a channel into the plant. The machine room still features one of the original turbines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a water mill on the Batthy\u00e1ny estate in the vicinity of Ikerv\u00e1r as early as the beginning of the 18th century. The dam and its paddle wheel were washed away during spring floods until Italian engineers modernized it in the first decade of the 19th century. It was them, who suggested the Batthy\u00e1ny family to make use of the water of the R\u00e1ba river.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vas County Electrical Works Holding was founded in 1895 and led by Count Ferenc Batthy\u00e1ny. Reading through the pages of the original construction protocol exhibited in the museum reveals that the construction began in September 1895. The exhibition also features the original riparian rights permit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Counts brought the dynamo and turbines from Switzerland \u2013 the plant used these until the beginning of the 20th century. The plant provided electricity to power the public lighting systems in the towns of S\u00e1rv\u00e1r and Szombathely, but also the railway station of Sopron, opened in 1900, and the surrounding industrial facilities. The industrial history specialty of Ikerv\u00e1r can be seen in the museum of the plant where tableaus with images show the history of its construction, the way old watermills used to operate, smaller water plants in the surrounding areas, as well as works related to water management and flood protection. Further tableaus show green energies, like the utilisation of solar and other energies, the operation of wind plants.\u00a0
The show room presents the use of water energy from antiquity to today, however, there is also a model of a ship mill and remnants of equipment used in water mills. Another room features the step-by-step development of the Ikerv\u00e1r Plant. A model table depicts the position of the facilities of the plant and the way the industrial water and the R\u00e1ba were connected. The third part of the exhibition shows the flora and fauna of the river as well as the water, one of the key elements in our lives, from the antiquity to present times.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plant and the museum can be found 7 km from S\u00e1rv\u00e1r. There is a sign on the road between Ikerv\u00e1r and S\u00f3tony showing the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The museum can only be visited with previous notice via telephone! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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