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

Idegennyelvű összefoglalók - Historic Buildings in County Borsod-Abaúj Zemplén

and his workshop, also from Eger. The elegance of the interior and exterior was complete with valuable pieces of another attendant arts, namelydcons, goldsmith's pieces, expensive liturgie clothing. Most of the more modest Greek Catholic churches were built on the place of modest wood churches. Many of them were based on the Treasury's standard design. The modest exterior often hides rich, often folk art-like valuable equipment, such as in Sátoraljaújhely, Bodrogkeresztúr, Abod, Baktakék, Kány etc. The earliest iconostasis fragments are from Rybotycze (Baktakék, Gagyvendégi, Tolcsva). In the late 18th century, home workshops supply the churches with equipment. Among the painters, the activity of József Széchényi and József Miklóssy (Zmij) is remarkable. Due to liturgy reforms and reconstructions made mostly with good intentions, however, a great part of the really valuable old equipment of the Greek Catholic churches was destroyed. Masses of Jews appeared in the county in the 18th century, soon establishing their congregations where rich religious, charitative and scientific activity went on. Attached to the synagogues, famous schools worked headed by learned, sometimes well known rabbis. The oldest-still existing-synagogue is the church in Mád, the pearl of the home late Baroque architecture. The synagogue's four columned interior follows Polish and Czech architectural traditions. The only still working city synagogue stands in Kazinczy street, Miskolc. It is the work of architect Ludwig Forster of Vienna, famous for his synagogues. The valuable romantic buildingthat was completed in 1863, is a representative memorial of the home Jewish church architecture. Historic Buildings of Folk Art The historic buildings in County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, are being scientifically surveyed now. According to the Register of Historic Buildings, 1976, the protected objects are: total 23 on four settlements of South Borsod, 4 on four settlements of South Zemplén, 24 on 14 settlements of North Borsod-Gömör-Torna, 11 on 9 settlements of Abaúj and finally 11 on 7 settlements of Hegyalja. County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén that begins alongside river Tisza and gradually rises up to the range of mountains, is extremely varied not only geographically, but in its folk culture as well. This is refelected also upon the folk architecture of the county. At the first glance, the outlook of the villages and their buildings on the South Borsod plane or in the former marshland of Bodrogköz are different from those in the settlements nestling in the the valleys of Bükk or Zemplén mountains. Owing to the differing natural environments, the differences in the social-economic development and often the different history, a uniform picture cannot be drawn of the folk culture of the county in