County Hall - County Hall

Balassagyarmat's main square is woodless, full of stone. In addition, the cobblestone has significant traffic. You should close the main square off the vehicles and install trees.

Originally a county barracks, it was originally built in 1753. The present building was completed in 1835 in the neoclassical style, which received its characteristic volume gable at the time of its conversion in 1894. Tourism is interesting that the "U" shaped compelling story county hall, the architectural ensemble of the forms presently a well-functioning, in 1845 the late Classical style épült- county jail five-storey historical building of. In this building IMRÉ MADÁCH was elected representative of Nógrád county in 1861. And in 1871 Kálmán MIKSZÁTH also worked here. This building is one of the gems of Civitas Fortissima.

The building of Mikszáth Kálmán High School forms an ensemble with the building of the Balassagyarmat Penitentiary. What kind of cruel life situation might it be in which high school students see the prison yard on a daily basis, from which, in turn, their lives can be seen by those who have been deprived of their own? In a newspaper article, they once mentioned a boy with a girly face who was almost the same age as them, who went to this prison for an unknown reason and was a robot in prison. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a monster to condemn someone, and when a human being has to struggle so close to the free world, yet so far away from prison conditions, it only makes it even more painful for him to crush his individual.

Monument to the bravest city. I have longed to see me live, bowing before our Elves, so that today the city can belong to Hungary. Eternal glory to our Heroes!

Balassagyarmat has been the seat of Nógrád County since 1790. The construction of the new county hall began in 1832 on the site of the 18th century imperial barracks on the basis of the plans of Ferenc Kasselik. Construction was completed by 1835, and behind the completed building, construction of the county prison began in 1842, which was handed over in 1845. After the county settlement in 1950, the county seat address was taken away from Balassagyarmat, but the Nógrád County Council was established in this building, because the conditions for founding the council were not in Salgótarján. Finally, in 1952, as the conditions were met, the council also moved to Salgótarján, and only the County Court remained in the city among the county offices. The old County Hall then lost its original role. In his building he operated for some time the city's Fine Binding, the MH. No. 6 In addition to the main buildings of the János Bottyán Secondary School Honvéd College, the Mikszáth Kálmán Cultural Center, the City Archives and the Endre Horváth Gallery, the Mikszáth Kálmán Grammar School, Vocational High School and Vocational School on Hétvezér Street, they still have classrooms here to this day. In 2014, the city government submitted a tender for the renovation of the county hall building and the relocation of the related prison to the outskirts of the city, and a cultural complex, a prison museum and a prison hotel would have been established in the building complex. However, no prison was built in Balassagyarmat. The facade of the building was renovated by the municipality in 2016 and 2017, during which the inscription “Nógrád for public affairs” was also restored, which was removed after 1950 after the city lost its leading role in the county.

The County Hall is very beautiful, the space and pavement in front of him has not won tetszésesemet!

It fits in nicely with its surroundings, but it would be better if the building were to be used sensibly and not to be damaged. Unfortunately, the rehabilitation of the city center didn't help either, as it turned into a cobblestone monster instead of a walking, people-centered downtown. Neither tree nor vegetation.