"Áldd meg határunkat..." : szakrális emlékek a röszkei tanyavilágban

Röszke is a village between the Serbian border and Szeged. The village and the farmsteads around it used to belong to Szeged until the 1950 administrative reorganisation. There are 11 sacred monuments in the area of the village. Three crucifixes are erected with the donations of the believers beside farmland schools built by the town of Szeged from the second half of the 19* century on. Other crucifixes were also raised with the donations offarmers to protectthe land and the crops, or individually, to express gratitude or as a memorial of some fatal event e. g. an epidemic. The two storm bells and the crucifixes beside them played a special role in the protection of the lands. They were erected beside the vineyards around the town. The field guard fought against the devastating hail from the beginning of the storm until the end by the chimes of the bells and prayers, thus protecting the crops. The statue of Saint Peter with Chains was raised as a memorial of surviving the plague of 1783 in Szeged. By the beginning of the 1900s, the veneration of the saint had faded away and the statue was placed into the yard of a farmstead where it still stands. The study discusses the history of the raising and the fate of the monuments and the customs related to them