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

Angol nyelvű összefoglaló

Besides Veszprém and Balatonfüred the third center of the Balaton region was still Keszthely, the urban seat of the Festetics domain. Between 1769-1772 the castle was further built according to the plans of Christoph Hofstadter; hotel, cityhall and much storied houses were put up in the town. After 1783 Hofstadter's successor Johann Georg Rantz, domanial master builder led the constructions, e.g. the third reconstruction of the castle between 1799 and 1804 where besides the residents Viennese masters worked as well. The still operating library was create then, alse. The reconstruction of the Keszthely castle leads on to the classicist period, wich began to prosper at the beginning of the 19th century. By this time the English garden round the castle was finished, including the Viennese Joseph Klieber'

s lion-fountain. Wich imitates a Greek church agricultural college bearing the name "Georgikon" was set up, the small castle in the neighbouring Fenékpuszta with the stables of studfarm, and the farmbuildings enclosing it, as well as the churches of Gyenesdiás and Vonyarcvashegy belonging to the Festetics domain. These all were built under the leadership of master-builder Rantz and engineer Vilmos Kehrn, by the masters of the domanial contractor'

s office. Within the stonecarving guild from Joseph Zitterbarth's, later from Mihály Kugler's workshop came almost all the statues, road-side crosses and the stone-carved elements of the buildings as well as the tombs of the Balaton-region. To the discovery of Balaton as a holiday resort, contributed intensely the fact that the poet laureate of the early 19th century, Sándor Kisfaludy dwelt in Sümeg. All significant members of the literary and scientific life visited his Sümeg mansion which he had rebuilt round 1810. He was heading the intellectual life in the Festetics court and Balatonfüred, the health resort. On the vanguard of the politicians, writers, artists gathering in the summer in Balatonfüred, it was under his initiative that the first permanenttheatre of the country was established here between 1831-32, and the steam-boating and exclusive and bustling bathing culture developed here. Sanatorium, restaurant, bathing-houses were built in the 1830s, on the basis of János Pakh's plans, who was the architect of the basilica of Esztergom. The classicist church was constructed by Antall Fruhmann from Győr, in 1841-46. The classicist style left its marks on the Sümeg episcopal castle and on the Zichy castle in Nagyvázsony, on the noble dwellinghouses of Veszprém, on the firewatch tower of Veszprém, and moreover on the townhouses of Keszthely and Veszpr;m. The wellknown master of the churches round Veszprém was master stone-mason Sebestyén Strakovics who dwelt here, and he may have been the builder of many living houses, too. Working in the first half of the 19th century, Franz Bucher Jr. produced the interior paintings of the Round Church in Balatonfüred, the Veszprém St. Anne Church, he painted the altarpieces in the episcopal cathedral and in the Szentantalfa church. A great many village dwellinghouses have remained in the Balaton region from the late 18th and the early 19th centuries. Major findings of the valuable and protected village houses are Tihany and Szigliget village pictures, both of which are complete from an artistic-memorial aspect, and on the northern side in Balatonakaii, Barnag Dörgicse, Hidegkút, Kékkút, Kővágóórs, Kóveskál, and Zánka, on the southern Bálványos, Balatonszemes, Balatonszentgyörgy, Buzsák and Zamárdi. The quick spread of romanticism, emerging from the mid 19th century, was due to