Műemlékek B.-A.-Z. megyében (Miskolc, 1988)

Idegennyelvű összefoglalók - Historic Buildings in County Borsod-Abaúj Zemplén

Catholic church of village Szentsimon, near Ózd. This comes from 1650. The painted furniture is unknown in the Greek Catholic or Jewish or in other Protestant churches. Painted boards are found mostly on the ceilings of churches. Besides, they may appear on the gallery balustrades, the front plates of pews and priest's chairs, or rarely, on the Lord's table and the Ark of the Convenant. Richly ornamented paintings must have decorated the pulpit, too, first of all, its so called sounding board and the crown. The earliest ceilings were made of long boards, while from the 18th century, mainly square boards were constructed. The painting carpentry is as old as carpentry itself. It appeared in Hungary from the 13th century. The pine boards were made in saw mills and the new technology, the carpentry relied on it. The pine wood boards were painted mostly in tempera. Masters were hardly used, almost every thing was freely composed and painted. Rosettes, tulips, foliations continuously repeat, but they are not the same either in size or shape or colour. The town house and castle ceilings were also painted in the Middle Ages, but the memory of these are now preserved by only old documents. The Medeaval traditions survive in the painted ceiling boards of the church of Szentsimon (pictures 83-84). The ceiling of the Protestant church in Rakacaszend was constructed in 1657 (picture 97). The stall of the church on hill Avas, Miskolc, is in Renaissance style (pictures 8-9), but its painted priest's church is also significant (picture 10). The church in Rudabánya has a high historic value. Damaged details of Medeaval frescoes can be seen on the church wall (picture 68). A part of its painted wooden ceiling (picture 69) was made in the mid 1 7th century or in 1 758. The Ruthenians moving down from the north mountain regions of the country and the Greek and the Macedoromanians moving up from the Balkans broughtthe cultural traditions of the East Church. Two east liturgy Churches are still present in our county, i.e. Orthodoxand Greek Catholic. Both are still keen to preserve their own cultural traditions, the common rooted bequest of their art. The great part of the historic material came into existence in the 18th and 19th centuries and consists mostly of churches. The Greek largely involved in the transit trade of the contemporary Hungary, soon got rich. Their wealth shows itself in the exquisite architecture and splendid equipment of their magnificent Baroque churches. Their church currently working in Miskolc and the former Orthodox church in Tokaj, evidence the small congregations' devotion beyond their members' means. Breaking with the Balkan traditions, they built churches that included the essence of the contemporary style and at the same time, transmitted the traditions. The builder of the church in Miskolc was the famous architect from Eger, János Adami, and the magnificent internal equipment of both churches linked to Miklós Jankovics wood sculptor