18.6 The ruins of Vinné castle

Pencil, watercolour on paper, 301 x 468 mm
Inscribed at top middle: Wihorlat; at bottom left: 66; at bottom middle: Ruine Vinna, Tarnar Berge, Vinna
Inscribed on the backing at bottom left: Vinna vára
MTA Könyvtára, Kézirattár, Ms 4409/207

Map: IV

Here we see Vinné to the right, on the edge of the plain, and the far-off peak of the Vihorlat (1074 m) in the middle. The Vihorlat is the westernmost part of the Vihorlat-Gutin trachyte ridges. - Vinné / Vinna lies in the vicinity of Michalovce. In the 1850s it was a market town with 1000 Slovak and "Ruthenian" (i.e., Transcarpathian Ukrainian) inhabitants. The ruins of the Árpád-age Vinné (or Tarna) castle stand on a 325 m high hill above the village. Count János Waldstein owned a mansion in the village. - Bibliography: Fényes Elek, Mednyánszky 1829, Mednyánszky 1983