Rácz Tibor Ákos: A múltnak kútja. Fiatal középkoros regészek V. konferenciájának tanulmánykötete - A Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, A. sorozat: Monográfiák 3. (Szentendre, 2014)
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English Summaries Emese Csoltkó Sketches to the Building History of the Calvinist (Former Premonstratensian) Church of Ócsa The village of Ócsa is situated in Pest County some thirty kilometres south of Budapest. The first mention of the existence of the Premonstratensian abbey dates to 1234. This data was preserved in the so-called Catalogue of Ninive from the fifteenth century (with earlier lists of the houses) which not only mentions Ócsa as the filial of the convent of Jászó (Jasov, Slovakia) but also recorded it being in the patronage of the Virgin Mary. The church was in the use of the Calvinist congregation of Ócsa since 1560. As part of the preparation for the reconstruction works planned by the National Centre for Monument Protection also archaeological excavations were carried out, both in the church and in the churchyard between 1986 and 1992 which were led by Juan Cabello. These included a systematic, full-scale excavation as well as wall-investigations and as a result it was possible to sketch out the construction history of the church. The church and the monastery were built at a previously inhabited area. After the demolition of the twelfththirteenth-century pit houses and after some landscaping, the three-nave church with the transept and the two towers at its western facade was built some time in the first half of the thirteenth century. There was only one construction phase of the church, though during that there were some modifications in the original plans. The building had been designed with one vaulting section, longer towards the west, but then the vaulting of the nave and the side-aisles were left off, and finally the building received a flat ceiling. No major reconstruction works can be dated to the Middle Ages, but some minor ones (wall-paintings, the building of a Gothic pastoforium) were carried out. Nevertheless, the Premonstratensian monastery did not function until the Ottoman occupation which is attested by the fifteenth century demolition of the rood-screen. The Calvinists already took into their possession the church in the sixteenth century, but it was only possible to carry out reconstruction works in the second half of the eighteenth century (József Teleki’s works between 1774 and 1777). It was followed by another renovation after the damages caused by natural disasters (bolt and fire). These latter works were led by Ottó Tandor (1897-1900). In 1909 Ottó Sztehlo renewed the damaged northern portal. The elevation of the towers of the church was planned and carried out by Ernő Foerk in 1923. Finally, the most recent renovation phase of the church was conducted byTibor Gál between 1989 and 1995. 458
