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Hortobágy Bridge Fair

A summer fair at the Nine-holed Bridge on the Hungarian puszta, home of the grey long-horned cattle of the plain.

Well (hungarian gémeskút ) in the Hortobágy National Park (?) Puszta, Hungary
Photo: Andreas Poeschek , fotografikus.hu, CC BY 2.0 at, via Wikimedia Commons

Cattle at Hortobágy Bridge Fair

The Hortobágy, in eastern Hungary, is a great steppe of grassland and marsh that has been grazed for centuries and is now a national park and a World Heritage Site. Its herdsmen still keep the Hungarian Grey, a long-horned cattle that once walked in great droves to the markets of Vienna and southern Germany, along with racka sheep and Nonius horses. Each August, around the national holiday of 20 August, a fair is held by the Nine-holed Bridge, the long stone bridge over the Hortobágy river: a market of crafts, food and folk music, with displays of herding skills and of the grey cattle of the plain.

The breeds

Hungarian GreyThe long-horned grey cattle of the puszta.

Also part of it, and being written: Podolian cattle (The wider family of grey steppe cattle it belongs to.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Hortobágy National Park" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

  • Hungarian Grey: The original uploader was Faludi at Hungarian Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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