ÚjhartyánPoints of interest
Újhartyán Town
Points of interest
The tidiness and cleanliness of Újhartyán, with its beautiful houses and parallel streets, is a sight, and a first-time visitor to the town never forget to mention. The current state of the city is a mix of modern, two-story houses and L-shaped houses with tiled or mansard roofs built in the 1970s. The landmark building on Fő utca (Main Street), the Catholic Church, fits in nicely among the rest. The parish next to the church and the old mayor's office, a few hundred meters away, built in 1913 under the influence of János Szaller, still evokes the atmosphere of the early 19th century.
We must also mention the Roman Catholic Chapel, built by the farmers of Újhartyán in the second half of the last century, on the edge of the village where the wheat fields begin. The chapel fell victim to the expanding front lines in the autumn of 1944, when an incoming bomb destroyed it. After the war, it was restored in 1947 with the help of the local population under the organization of József Radóczy and László Krejcsi. For years now, summer day camps have been held under the direction of parish priest János Orosz, with the participation of 60-80 young Christians. Recently, a fishpond was created around the Chapel.
We can't forget the Heroes' statue which stands in our town square, opposite the Culture house. Already in 1924, at a meeting of the then representative body, they planned to realize the concept of Béla Farkas sculptor to commemorate the heroic deceased of World War I. Yet the statue was only completed in more than ten years later, 1935. Archduke Joseph Habsburg is invited to the opening ceremony, and he accepts the invitation. The ceremony was held on 9 June 1935, the Sunday of Pentecost, with a huge crowd in attendance. The guest was received by a horse banderium at the cross of Dabas, from where his carriage rolled into the town with gendarmerie (at the time village), directly in front of the church, under the Ornamental Gate constructed for honoring his visit. The Archduke went to the church, attended mass and then visited the parish. Around 11 a.m., to the sound of the Újhartyán's music band, the Archduke, in military uniform, with a steel helmet on his head, wearing the Order of St. Stephen around his neck and a marshal's baton in his hand, marched up to the tribune, and in broken Hungarian - sometimes in German - delivered his inaugural speech and unveiled the statue. After the Archduke's act, János Hümpfner recited, and the choir sang nationalistic songs under the direction of Sándor Romhányi.
Touristic opportunities of Újhartyán
The Pótharaszti forest on the outskirts of the settlement, the proximity of the - yet untouched - Pusztatemplom (deserted temple) and Pusztavacs all offer the possibility of organizing various trips. The natural values of the town also include the wasteland meadows around Vajkó, forested steppe, the area around the Akasztóhegy, the old juniper forest, the Hernád riverbed and its surroundings. The stone church of Pótharast, which was granted the right to hold a market right in 1350, is mentioned in 1416 records. According to the testimonies of the former inhabitants of Fülek in the 1640s, the church got destroyed when the Turks occupied Buda. So, according to them, the Turkish defter in 1541 (including the inhabited village itself) suggests that the destruction probably took place around 1597, during the Long War. The church is located on a hill, which now belongs to the border of Csévharaszt, and can be reached from Újhartyán on the Monori road, about 4 km (2,486 miles) away. It is located on the "Pótharaszti földvár", just across the Kőrösi road. 
The ruins of a church on a freestanding hill, relatively high in the landscape and overgrown with trees, are surrounded by the graves of residents from the 19th and early 20th centuries (with fragments of medieval earthenware remains in the field surrounding the hill).
Today, the remains of the western wall of the former church stand. The church, about 5.5 m wide and 7.5 m long, was joined by a semicircular sanctuary with a radius of about 2 m. The half-section, which is about 5 meters high, irregular in the centre and made up of carved stones at the corners, suggests the rest of the church. The remains of an asymmetrical rounded stone-framed window on the axis of the wall remains at the top, surrounded by irregular brickwork. No entrance underneath. There are also some small fragments of the connecting side walls on the aisle side.
