Bíró Szilvia - Székely Zoltán: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 49/1. Tanulmányok T. Szőnyi Eszter emlékére (Győr, 2011)
Kelemen István - Nemes András: Az újkéri, Alexandriai Szent Katalin tiszteletére emelt plébániatemplom története
ARRABONA 2011.49/1. TANULMÁNYOK HISTORY OF THE SAINT CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA PARISH CHURCH OF ÚJKÉR The Roman Catholic church of Újkér village was founded in the Medieval Ages and consecrated to the honour of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Based on a field research and archival documents its building history could be worked out. Its sanctuary was of dual periods which might have been built in horseshoe form in the 13th and later in the 14th and 15th centuries. It had a stone tower and an entrance on its southern façade, the latter having been blocked still in the Medieval Ages. Records from the 1660s suggest to an arched sanctuary, a nave of wooden ceiling, a stone pulpit, a wooden gallery and a tabernacle in the wall. A stone walled cemetery encircled the church. In 1747-48 the church was enlarged to the east: the medieval nave was spared, a new tower and a stone gallery were built. The Baroque sanctuary might have closed about in the middle of the today’s square. In the middle of the nave a vault was created. In 1773 Schaller István painted a new main altarpiece. The church acquired its today’s dimensions in 1873 when it was rebuilt by Koller János building master of Kapuvár, who enlarged it to the east and added a transept and a new sanctuary. New, semi-arched windows were opened, the gallery was replaced and the western gate was transformed. In 1883 the main altarpiece was replaced by Kovács Mihály’s work and in 1897 Heckenast János built a sidealtar. In 1914 - out of static considerations - Möller István proposed to strengthen the walls of the nave with buttresses, wall up the northern window and provide a reinforced concrete shell to the dome. In that year a new main altar, a new pulpit and baptisteries were ordered from Lewisch Róbert. István Kelemen -András Nemes
