Romanesque Church

A full excavation of the monumental church was carried out in 1971-72, and the excavation clarified the construction periods of successive eras. In the second half of the 1200s, the 14-meter-long, seven-and-a-half-meter-wide building consisted of a single rectangular nave and a short, rectangular sanctuary, with a sacristy connected to the north as early as the next century. Vaulted was just a shrine facing east (with a arched stone vault), the nave covered with a flat-beamed flat ceiling. From the inner wall of the nave were the said wall pillars supporting the manor house, which consisted of a single arch, and in the sanctuary there was a seat recessed into a wall, as well as another recess for storing the sacrament of the altar. It is a rare find, so the Romanesque, stone-carved, plinth baptismal font found during the wall research, which can be seen in the church (in its restored condition), is especially valuable. A XIII. The stone frames of the gate opening to the south under the line of the 16th century funnel-lined windows already converge in a vertex arc, and the three-lobed gauge of the narrow window in the axis of the sanctuary's closing wall also evokes early Gothic forms. The circular window illuminating the altar was opened during the Baroque reconstruction, as in the 18th century. century with three large rectangular windows on the south and west walls of the nave, respectively. In the mid-1700s, the drawer vault of the ship, which can still be seen today, and the three ventilation windows in the attic were made. Seventy suffered from decades of Turkish occupation. Its inhabitants left, the place of the village was overgrown with weeds. Around 1733, the Pécs chapter began its resettlement with Hungarian, Croatian and - in large numbers - German forest workers and peasants. The old church was renovated and rededicated in honor of the Holy Trinity, but from 1883 - when the new Catholic church was built in the village - the medieval church again suffered an unworthy fate. It was used as an outbuilding, "its nave became a hay barn, its sanctuary and sacristy became meat incense, its medieval murals are covered with thick, greasy soot," noted Ottó Szőnyi, a visitor to the diocese in 1911. The scholar priest still saw and described the damaged frescoes that had disappeared for good in the early 1950s.

A beautiful pearl on the border of the Western Mecsek. Originally a Romanesque small church, it was rebuilt in both the Gothic and Baroque periods, but successfully combines different styles. For those who visit, be sure to visit!

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