Haris Andrea szerk.: Koldulórendi építészet a középkori Magyarországon Tanulmányok (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 7. Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal,)

Lővei Pál: Az óvári kapucinus kolostor és templom

The Capuchin Monastery and Church of Óvár Pál Lővei The Capuchins settled in Magyaróvár in 1697. They built their monastery along the road going north from the city. Although construction work finished by 1715, the completion of the building was only reported in 1725. The building complex had an extremely modest appearance. On the first floor of the monastery, behind the unadorned facade, there were cells illuminated through small windows and arranged in three wings with a corridor in front. The church dedicated to St. Felician of Kantalice had an elongated rectangular choir and no aisles. Only some of its walls are still standing as the building was converted into a three-storey apartment building in the 20th century. The nave of the church was vaulted. The original view of the church has been preserved in a painting made in 1845-1846 by the painter János Szálé, who lived in Óvár: the main facade was crowned with a triangular pediment, with a mural placed between the two windows above the entrance. Such an arrangement of the facade, together with the small flèche above the choir and the series of tiny windows in the monastery's wall, both of which were mentioned in the sources, were repeated in an almost identical form by the 17th and 18th century Capuchin Monasteries of Hungary, in Zágráb (Zagreb) and Bazin (Pezinok), Buda and Pozsony (Bratislava), Nagyvárad (Oradea) and Hatvan. Such a uniform design can be explained by the strict regulations of the order, laying great emphasis on poverty and even determining the dimensions of the monastery and its various parts. The view of the resulting buildings was essentially no different from that of the 13th century Franciscan Monasteries. Illustrations 1. Capuchin Monastery at Óvár ("salt-works") from the south-east, in 1981 2. The reconstructed ground-plan of the Capuchin Church and Monastery 3. Eastern wing of the Monastery at Óvár, the upper windows of the western wall from inside, with the walled-up windows of the cells. 4. Szálé, János: The Salt-works at Mosonmagyaróvár. 1845. Mosonmagyaróvár, Hanság Museum Inv. No.: 55.106. 5. Szálé, János: In front of the Salt-works. 1846. Mosonmagyaróvár, Hanság Museum Inv. No.: 55.78. 6. Szálé, János: Landscape with Peasant Couple, (the salt-works seen from the north). 1846. Mosonmagyaróvár, Hanság Museum Inv. No.: 55.101. 7. Szálé, János: The Yard of the Salt-works with Soldiers. 1845. Mosonmagyaróvár, Hanság Museum Inv. No.: 55.105. 8. Old etchings showing the Capuchin Churches at Zágráb (Zagreb), Nagyvárad (Oradea) and Bazin (Pezinok) 9. Capuchin Monastery at Víziváros, Buda, around 1760 (Budapest története II /The History of Budapest III/. Budapest 1975. Picture 6.) 10. Pozsony (Bratislava), Capuchin Church and Monastery. Detail of an etching from 1732 (after Závadová). 11. Tata Tóváros, detail of the courtyard of the Capuchin Monastery 12. Tata Tóváros, main facade of the Capuchin Church