Bátonyterenye

Bátonyterenye is a town of 12,000 people (2021) and district in Nógrád County.

Get in
There are buses and trains from Hatvan and Salgótarján.

The town is accessible by road and rail. By road the 21 highway and 23 highway can be reached from the city.

Bátonyterenye can be reached by train on the Hatvan – Somoskőújfalu railway line. There are two railway stations (Nagybátony and Kisterenye) and a railway stop (Kisterenye-Bányatelep) in the town.

Get around
Local transport is provided by the Volánbusz bus.

In the town

 * Kisterenye Roman Catholic Church (1736): The baroque building on the hill next to the castle, which can be seen from the main road 21, is on a Gothic foundation, but has been remodelled several times. The St. Stephen's holy martyrs flat ceiling vaulted church sanctuary Today's interior painting of the church was created in 1956, and the exterior was renovated in the 1960sand took place in the late 1990s. From its early Baroque furnishings, a carved stone-protected pulpit resting on an ornate stone baluster has survived.
 * Szúpatak Lutheran Church (1903): The population of Szúpatak has now dropped below 100. The church in the middle of the settlement was built in 1903, surrounded by some typical specimens of the Palóc farmhouse from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
 * Puszta Church remnants (1277): To the east of the part of the settlement called the village of Nagybátony, 2 km towards Felsőlengyend, are the ruins of a church on top of a hill.
 * Arany (Gold) Hill (Bronze Age urn cemetery) excavation also with the Rákóczi castle remnants
 * In the public spaces and parks of Bátonyterenye you can find many sculptures, reliefs and monuments by local or nationally renowned artists:
 * Péter Molnár's Miner's Monument in the Mining City
 * István Szabó Sr.'s Reader Miner in the small park in front of the Ady Endre Cultural Centre
 * Béni Ferenczy's The Young Miner in front of the Ady Endre Cultural Centre
 * István Szabó Jr.'s Flóra in the square next to the ABC of Kisterenye symbolizes purity, youth and spring.
 * Béni Ferenczy's The Young Miner in front of the Ady Endre Cultural Centre
 * István Szabó Jr.'s Flóra in the square next to the ABC of Kisterenye symbolizes purity, youth and spring.