Koppány Tibor: A Balaton környékének műemlékei (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 3 Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal, 1993)

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rebuilt after the great fire of 1908 with Neo-Romanesque forms in the Veszprém castle district. King István I had a Benedectine monastery erected in the one-time Mosaburg which he made Zala county seat, with the name Zalavar, but this construction has vanished without a trace, with the exception of a low number of stone-carvings. András I (1046-1060) - third successor of the later canonized King István I - founded the Tihany Benedectine Monastery in 1055. He was buried in the still existing crypt of the church he founded. His burial-stone can be seen there as well. The third Benedectine monastery was set up by László I (1077-1095) in Somogyvár, the seat of Somogy county, in a castle rising there. The walls of its imposing three-aisled church were dug up and exposed to view in the recent past. A further, smaller monastery stood on the woody hill above Monostorapáti, it had been built by the Atyusz family, a large landowning family of this land. The Felsóörs provostal church dating from the 13th century is a memento of the building activity of the Rátót family of French origin, who are ancestors of the present-day Batthyány-family. With its rich Romanesque elements the church can be seen in a Baroque rebuilt form. It was King Istán I who ordered that every ten villages should build a church for themselves. But only the written sources tell us about the 11-12. century village churches, as there are hardly any traces left. In 1055 there was a mention of a St. Kelemen church that stood in Balatonlelle, in the mid twelfth century they mentioned the St. Kozma and Damjan Churches in Vöröstó, and in 1184 Somogyár's St. Apollinaris church was mentioned. A first period building that was dug out of the ruins of St. Balázs church above Balatoncsicsó, the Felsődörgicse church ruins and the little chapels excavated at the northern side of the Zalaszantó church, the one-time church, discovered in the Taliandörögd church ruins, and the ruins of the former village Ecser's three-aisled church near Révfülöp, probably date from the second half of the 12th century. From the 12th century many stone-carvings remained in the Somogyvár Benedectine Abbey that must have been the decorations of a rood screen, and belong to the Lombard Romanesque style together with a stone-carving from Somogytúr - which is now on show in the Somogytúr-museum. The few decorations of the village churches along with the bigger monasteries manifest a strong North Italian influence, in the beginning it was mainly the Byzantine art of Venice and its surroundings that left marks on them. From the 13th century in addition to the Italian impact, the South German territories affected the Hungarian architecture. The stone-carvings of the Somogyvar cloister rebuilt in the 1220's, mostly form parts of a large-sized ambulatory and show an early Gothic, French Cistercian influence. In addition to the major churches, there are churches and church-ruins to be found mainly on the Northern side of the lake hiding rich Romanesque elements. The foundations of early rotunds were excavated in Veszprém and Keszthely, which may date from the 11th century. More important monuments from the 13th century are the churches of Egregy, Kisapáti and Lovas, that remained intact, and the church-ruins in Ecsér near Révfülöp, in Orvényes, Aszófó Tihany, Dörgicse, Köveskál and many other