Acta Papensia 2007 - A Pápai Református Gyűjtemények Közleményei 7. évfolyam (Pápa, 2007)

3-4. szám - Műhely - Farkas Gábor: Ciszterciek Pápán 1660–1726

Műhely

SZÍJ 1960 = SZÍJ Rezső: Várpalota. Fejezetek a város történetéből. Bp., 1960.

THALY 1881 = THALY Kálmán: Zirc a ciszterciek adminisztrátora a Rákóczi korban. In: Századok 1881. 768-775

Summary

GÁBOR FARKAS

Cistercians in Pápa (1660-1726)

In 1182 the Hungarian king, Béla III. asked Cistercians to move to Zirc, a Transdanubian village in the Bakony Hills. During the Ottoman invasion in the 16th Century the village and the monastery with its domain ceased to exist and it was not until the beginning of the 18th Century that a reconstruction took a start. As a result of a long developing period, Zirc became the center of the Cistercian Order. The abbacy in Lilienfeld, Austria bought the properties of the Zirc Abbacy in 1659 and then they sold them to the Abbacy of Heinrichau, Prussia in 1700. The abandoned Zirc was first reconstructioned after the Ottoman invasion by Cistercians from Austria, who had settled in Pápa. The king Leopold I. appointed Márton Újfalussy the Zirc Abbey, who moved to Pápa, which was considered as a safe place, and he began to rebuild Zirc from here. After their first home had been built in Zirc, the friars left Pápa in 1726. The author, while searching the history of the Zirc Abbacy's domain in Előszállás, found data that clarifies the history of the abbacy. The study presents how the domain and religious life we reorganized. It proves that for nearly half a century before 1726 the town of Pápa was the center of the cistercian mission and the reorganization of the abbacy started from here. The old residence in Pápa still exists remindig of the heroic period.

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Acta Papensia VII (2007) 3-4.