Műemlékek B.-A.-Z. megyében (Miskolc, 1988)

Idegennyelvű összefoglalók - Historic Buildings in County Borsod-Abaúj Zemplén

ones to support the new wooden ceiling of the church restored by the Protestants. Fortunately, the big varied tracery windows have remaained intact. In 1 557, on the west of the church, a big campanile was built with a wooden gallery under its high roof. Among the monastery churches from the Gothic period, several monastery churches of merely the Pauline anchorites have remained in ruins is the forests of the mountains. Only one of their churches still stands, though rebuilt, in Sátoraljaújhely. Its interior is decorated by stuccoed early Baroque vaulting and splendid manyfigure altars carved by masters of Szepes county. The Renaissance ecclesiastic art is represented by a red marbel pastoforium kept in a museum which evidences an Italian master, and 16th and 1 7th century grave stones in a few churches. The Baroque architecture got its role in this county after the expel of the Turkish, in the 18th century. Its earliest remainings are the church of Mindszent and the church of the Minorites in Miskolc. These were soon followed by the new parish churches in the villages Harsány and Szentistván, on the south of the county. All are furnished with valuable Baroque equipment. A series of masterly altars decorate Tállya's Gothic church rebuilt in Baroque style, on the wine-growing region of Tokaj, and also the Baroque church attached to the Gothic tower remained in Tarcal. Boldogkőváralja's rococo taste church and on the east edge of the county, Sajóvárkony's and Sajópüspöki's churches built in the style of Louis XVI of France, are also worth mentioning. The first Baroque Protestant churches surrounded with arcaded galleries are built in the second half of the 18th century, such as in Sárospatak and in the neighboring church districts and in Miskolc, too. An interesting exception among the puritan interior Protestant churches is the church of Taktabáj which is decorated with rococo ornaments by the builder landlord and he had his castle there painted on both sides of the gallery. Modest remainings of the neo-classicism are the churches of Monok and Borsodnádasd, Tolcsva's Protestant church represents Gothic romanticism, while the manor's chapel in Újharangod is the representative of the Gothic Revival. In some of the churches built in different times, richly painted equipment, mainly ceilings and pulpits, and also choirs and pews can be found. These were the furniture in churches destroyed in various destructions and burned down mostly during the Turkish occupation of the country. During the ravagings, the original vaultings of the Medeaval Romanesque and Gothic churches crashed. These would not be vaulted in at the later restorations. The top of the walls were repaired, the naves were arched over by beams and shingled with boards. This boarding gave a facility to make painted ceilings. The most painted furniture can be found in the Protestant churches. Although, the most interesting and oldest ornamented ceiling of the county happens to be in the