Mikszáth Memorial Tree

In the neighbouring village Mohora on the parcel no.25. Rákóczi street can be found Memorial House Ilona Mauks, in its yard there is a solitary horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum). Its trunk has diameter 1 meter, its shroud has diameter of 15 meters, it is 20 meters high and 150 years old.

At that time this plot was belonged to the garden of adjudicator Mátyás Mauks, who was Mikszáth's father in law. Staying there the writer was gladly sitting under the two buckeyetrees. (One of them was fallen in 1938.) Mikszáth received his relatives here smoking his pipe, he red his writings being in preparation or his finished works to his friends. Here he wrote some chapters of his roman Strange marriage and the novel Boy of Lohina. The old horse-chestnut tree could be a witness of many conversations of literature-historical value!