N. Dvorszky Hedvig - F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1991/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1991)
MŰHELY - Summaries
new fact that around 1870 the town also gave commission to Miklós Ybl. Miklós Merhenke's participation is likewise questionable, partly on the basis of style, partly considering the artist's young age at the time of the commission. The sources reveal that the theatrical sculptures of Hungarian iconography were modelled by József Kunts and carved in stone by Ferenc Dinnert after sketches by Károly Lötz in the workshop of Ignaz Hentsch. Péter CSENGEL: The excavated Premonstrant provostal church at Majk Archeological research of the ruins at Oroszlány-Majkpuszta were carried out by OMF in 1981-1984. The monastery is, if very briefly, mentioned in mediaeval sources: first in 1235 in the so called Ninive catalogue, then in a 1281 transcription of the endowment of the monastery in Túróc. Moreover, several documents of the 13th and 14th centuries refer to Majk or its properties and suggest that the provostship had notarial functions. Its founder and its patrons are unknown, but it is more than likely than they can be identified with members of the Csák family, the traditional landowners of the region. The excavations decovered the foundations of a basilica. The aisles were devided by five pillars on both sides. At the north-east as well as at the south-east end of the nave there were adjoining chapels separated from the central space by a solid wall. On the east end the church was terminated by the sanctuary the chevet being five sides of the decadon. The south chapel continued in the single wing of a one storey convent building. Between the south-west corner of the latter and the north-west corner of the church a narrow foundation has been identified as an anclosure wall. The ground level of the church used to be higher than that of the outside. It is uncertain whether there were towers on the west of the church as the foundations are there but certain examinations suggest that the idea of the towers was discarded in the course of the construction works. Worthwile are to mention the graves decovered in front of the south sanctuary according to a Silver coin find they must date from the Árpád-period (before 1301). Edit SZENTESI: To the pre-history of monument protection in Hungary I. Hungarian related document of the "Central-Committee" The Central-Committee for the Research and Maintenance of Architectural Monuments (Vienna) was - between 1853 and 1861 active in Hungary, too. Thus Committee documents offer important information on individual monuments, excavations and finds, as well as throw light on the activity of some personalities active in monument protection, archeology and art history, often quite forgotten since. The author published here the result of her research, carried out in the archive of the Office for Building Protection, Vienna, in 1989 and 1990. The minute-books have many interesting Hungarian related entries, the documents, however, have not survived World War II, when most of them were burnt. There were, on the other hand, found some 50 drawings representing Roman monuments in Hungary of that time-some of them within the present day border. According to the minute-books and to Professor Walter Frodl there should be such drawings of mediaeval monuments, too. The author encourages further studies in this field, which might be carried out in co-operation of the Hungarian and Austrian offices of monument protection.
