Református templom

Árpád Age Church. The history of the village and the church The name of the village on the right bank of Szamos is of personal name. In 1181, a man named Tatar was mentioned, who, as a neighbor of the company monastery, had crossed its serfs. Based on this, the settlement is in the XII. It was created at the end of the 20th century. In 1458 the estate of the Tatárfalvi family was named after the name of Tatárfalva. In the 1800s his name was already used with the name Szamos, so his name was written as Samostatárfalva. The late Romanesque and early Gothic church was built in two parts - a single-hulled longitudinal house and a multi-tiered sanctuary. The sanctuary closes with the five sides of the octagon, but irregularly: the eastern wall is shorter than the ones standing next to it, with a duller angle. The north and south walls are longer. The current vault is not medieval, but the presence of pillars suggests that the building part was originally designed as arched. It is located on the three corners of the three eastern walls, at the junction of the south and southeast wall; Here, a strange, sharp-angled wall stack indicates that there was a support or wall structure in place. The pillars are stepped, their middle rainfall ledge, as well as the rounded (partly renewed) plinth made of brick. The shrine is illuminated by three sloping windows on the three eastern walls. Their shape is provided with a semicircular closure. The lower two or three brick sections were masonry before the restoration in 1965, when the original dimensions were restored. The inner frame of the windows is made of brick, and the wall of the slope is alternately laid and set by bricks. The walls are partly covered by a renewed ledge of brickwork, completely wrapped around the shrine, including the southern wall. On the southern side of the sanctuary, Ilona Czeglédy's excavation revealed the basic walls of a square structure with a harrow, which can be identified as a sacristy. Here the semicircular, narrow (only 62 cm wide) door opened in the southern wall of the sanctuary. This door was well seen in the 1864 surveys, but the plaster around the 1900s already covered plaster, the door had no visible trace, and the plinth was running without interruption. So it's a XIX. trace of century transformation. The southeastern corner of the sanctuary, where the pillar was missing, obviously associated with this sacristy, and was therefore abandoned. In the restoration of 1965, the plinth ledge was dismantled, thin plaster was laid on the wall surface, the ledge was retained, and the floor plan of the former sacristy was marked with beams.

Between Fehérgyarmat and Szatmárnémeti, on the Szamos embankment, there is a wonderful bicycle path, the path of the Medieval temples. You will be enriched with wonderful experiences as you round this 51 km!