Csatár (titled apostle Saint Peter)
It was the Gutkeled clan which erected the earliest private-founded monastery of the present Zala county around 1138, in Csatár near Zalaegerszeg. This monastery was entrusted with notarial functions for a short time. In the 16th century, like many others, it was fortified. In 1566, the family of Zrínyi Miklós, the hero of Szigetvár were hiding among its walls. It had been destroyed before 1600. Today a Zrínyi memorial column stands to mark its place near the renovated parish-church of the village dating to the 13th-14th centuries.
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