Paprét
In Paprét once stood a marshy, hard-to-cross meadow by the Ikva stream, made that way by low ground and nearby water. Before the filling, it also seems to have acted as a natural eastern protection for Sopron, and even the Roman-era Scarbantia (Sopron) likely stretched as far east as this area—because Roman pottery workshop remains were found here. Sopron’s medieval boundary also ran through this wet land: the water of the inner moat was said to flow toward Paprét via what is now Torna Street (once Rozmaring Street), with the area between the moat, the Ikva, and the swamp belonging to the inner suburb. Until 1832 or 1833, the meadow was the St. Michael parish’s mowing land (German: *Pfarrwiese*). …
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