Ányási kápolna

Ányási Chapel is a faithful copy of the former chapel of Pallaviciniek. It can be traced back to the early 1800s, when Count Zichy Leopoldina (widow of Earl Giancarlo Pallavicini) bought a huge estate in the Southern Great Plain, the center of which - and soon after the burial place of the noble family - became Algyő. However, at the end of the 1800s, the floods on the Tisza destroyed Algyő, so the then owner of the estate, Earl Sándor Pallavicini, relocated the village to Sándorfalva, which was named after him. However, the Earl also had to provide a new burial place for his family, so in the 1880s he had a chapel built in Ányás, under which he built a large crypt. Unfortunately, however, the mourning chapel in the II. completely destroyed after World War II, due in part to the vicissitudes of the weather and in part to vandalism. The chapel was grounded, its crypt was looted, and the surrounding families were built from its bricks. It faithfully reflects the spirit of the age, that the producer cooperative that farmed here even plowed its place. A descendant of the family, Earl Charles Pallavicini of Vienna, excavated in Ányás in 1982 with the help of some men who had grown up in the estate and with the permission of the local authorities. The ashes of family members buried in the crypt of the chapel were collected and placed in a common grave in the Sándorfalva cemetery. However, some of the more ornate elements of the damaged bronze coffins had to be delivered to the Szeged Museum. The Pallavicini family retained the original engineering blueprints made in Vienna, which were used to reconstruct the chapel. Its floor, altar, and staircase to the crypt are made of limestone in Solnhofen, Germany. The rounded edges of the stone cladding of the altar praise the work of contemporary masters, then hand-carved. In front of the altar, a crypt lid made of 10 cm thick Carrara marble slabs was inserted into the limestone cladding. The rebuilt place of prayer was blessed on the occasion of Pentecost by Bishop László of Kiss-Rigó County and András Juhász, Bishop of the Csongrád Reformed Diocese