Discover Jobbágyi: Nagy-hársas and the Church of St. George

• The Jobbágyi–Nagy-hársas Forest Nature Trail starts at the eastern edge of the village, leads to the 509-metre-high summit, and returns along the same path.
• On nearby Nagy-hársas, a geodetic survey tower now serves as a lookout tower. Heat-loving oak forests grow above silicate rocky grasslands and rocky scrub.
• The Church of St. George in Jobbágyi is a Baroque church dating from the late 18th century.

The hiking trail starts at the eastern edge of Jobbágyi and climbs to the summit along a footpath. The return route follows the same path back down. This is an out-and-back trail: the summit is the destination, and the return follows the familiar route back to the starting point. You can take this route format into account when planning your hike.

A geodetic survey tower now serves as a lookout tower at the summit. The vegetation is another feature of Nagy-hársas: heat-loving oak forests grow above silicate rocky grasslands and rocky scrub. Alongside the summit, the landscape also offers rocky habitats and forest to explore. The trail and the description of the vegetation provide different points of interest for travellers interested in nature and landscapes.

The Church of St. George is Baroque in style, and a medieval building was reused during its construction. Its building history therefore reaches back beyond the late 18th century, when the Baroque church was built. For trip planning, it offers a cultural counterpoint to Nagy-hársas’s nature-focused appeal: here, the focus is on the village’s architectural history; there, on the summit and the surrounding landscape.

The wider destination of Neuburg offers themes ranging from vibrant rural life to literature and geology. The old village of Hollókő is a Palóc settlement in Nógrád County in northern Hungary and a deliberately preserved, living example of rural life before the 20th-century Agrarian Revolution.

Literary history can be explored at places such as the Madách Imre Memorial House in Csesztve: its permanent exhibition covers the history of the Madách family and focuses on “Az ember tragédiája.” At the Mikszáth Kálmán Memorial Museum in Horpács, the permanent literary history exhibition is titled “MIKSZÁTH.”

The Pásztó Museum is housed in a Baroque Cistercian monastery building rebuilt in 1717–1718, where it presents permanent and temporary exhibitions. These include an open-air exhibition featuring a medieval glassworks and blacksmith’s workshop, presented as a unique industrial heritage monument in Hungary.

Geology is another major theme: the Boszorkány-kő nature trail lies within the Karancs-Medves Landscape Protection Area, established in 1989 and currently covering 6,928.6 hectares, and illustrates basalt volcanism from 2.4 to 5.2 million years ago. The formations on display include sediment inclusions torn from the depths, curved lava slabs, and basalt columns formed by weathering.

Discover more destinations: Bér, Tar, Garáb, Palotás, Pásztó, Felsõtold, Kozárd, Szirák.

What is the route of the Jobbágyi–Nagy-hársas Forest Nature Trail?

The footpath starts at the eastern edge of Jobbágyi and leads to the 509-metre-high summit of Nagy-hársas. The return follows the same route.

What are the distinguishing features of Nagy-hársas?

A geodetic survey tower now serves as a lookout tower at the summit. Heat-loving oak forests grow above silicate rocky grasslands and rocky scrub.

What is special about the Church of St. George?

The church is a Baroque building dating from the late 18th century. A medieval building was reused in its construction.

For the wider travel overview: Pásztói.