Szarvas

Szarvas lies beside the Körös on the southern Hungarian plain. The wars of the Ottoman period left the settlement deserted, but in 1722 landowner János György Harruckern invited settlers, chiefly Slovak Lutherans from Upper Hungary, to establish a new community. Their agreement gave the town a new beginning. The pastor Sámuel Tessedik later worked to improve farming and education here, establishing an agricultural school among the fields and river meadows of Szarvas.