N. Dvorszky Hedvig - F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1991/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1991)

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well-house. The late romanesque wing and the cloister corridor were demolished in 1486 and replaced by a gothic cloister quadrangle. This is - in reference to the previous one - to the east (with the width of one corridor) and is standing storey high today. The mediaeval wings with the living quarters on the south and west sides were demolished in the course of the 18th century reconstructions. Éva J. SZIKRA: The gardens of the Amade-Bajzáth-Pappenheim manor at Iszkaszentgyörgy The manor gounds at Iszkaszentgyörgy do not belong to the best known examples of Hungarian historic gardens. The first step of the reconstruction therefore was the collection of historical data. The first known plan dates from 1783. On this, smaller green patches, enclosed by walls can be identified in the vicinity of the buildings. The first English landscape garden was presumably commissioned by George Bajzáth in the 19th century. The coloured cadastral map of 1882 shows an ensemble of regular flower beds, groups of deciduous and evergreen and various garden pavilions (i. e. : a romantic round tower, a rose-garden with a Louis XVI. pavilion, a colonnaded empire building, a green-house) some of which have survived. In 1904 the square facing south-east in front of the main facade was turned into terraces with a geometrical garden lay-out by the then residing Sigfried Pappenheim and his wife. In this representative new part of the garden were erected an arcaded pavilion, a triumphal arch and numerous stone figures of the antiquity. The survey of the unweeded vegetation and dilapidated buildings has been completed and hopefully the reconstruction of the garden may also begin, soon. Dona VALTER: Recent archeological research in the Premonstrant Provostal ruins in Zsámbék The ruins of the Premonstrant Provosty were saved from final dilapidation by István Möller in 1889. Later, in 1934-1939 Professor Kálmán Lux and his son Géza Lux excavated the convent situated on the north side of the church. In 1986, preliminary to the architectural conservation, new excavations were started, which were completed only in 1991. In the nave of the Premonstrant church an earlier church with a semicircular apsis was decovered. This building had been identified by Lux, only he could not give it a date. Underneath this earlier church yet an other building was observed with both inside and outside ground-levels. Under and around the provostal church 463 graves were decovered. In some of them silver voins of the 11th and 12th century were found together with hairringlets ending in an S form. These 11th century graves will have belonged to the early church. Anthropological examination of bone finds was completed by Professor Imre Lengyel, who is following a chemico serological method. Individuals buried here belong to the normal A, B, AB and 0 blood-group. The B group stands close to grave finds in the cemeteries of coqueror Hungarians, whereas the A group shows similarities with western, particularly French buriel finds. Hungarian individuals with prevailing B characteristic were being buried here from about 1030 on, in their graves were the hair-singlets with the S ending found. Around 1100 must have appeared Knight Aynard and his retainers who had been using the cemetery together with the Hungarians for about 60 years. After that period the Hungarian population merged with the French. The small church with the semicircular apsis was being built by the French donators. In the western space enclosed by a double wall the men were buried. The corpses of women were placed in front of this in a walled grave under a red marble gravestone. The Premonstrant church as erected by two members of the Aynard clan, Smaragd and Egidius, between 1210 and 1222. The walls of the nave of the revious church were used as foundation on which the pillars of the new church were placed. The screen of the monks' choir and the public alter had common foundations and in front of the latter further walled graves were placed presumably for members of the donating family. The founder's wife, called Pena, whose name occurs in an 1258 document, was buried in front of the main sanctuary. Her gave was excavated. The convent building's west wing was not completed then, but it was two storey high in the east and north. The monastery burnt down in 1453. In 1477 Matthias Corvinus gave it to the Order of St. Paul the Hermit. It was then that the Gothic rebuilding took place, and the west wing of the convent building was completed. Between 1541 and 1686 the Turks took it over. In 1686 it was stated to be in good condition. In 1763 an earthquake caused damage to the building that was used as a quarry afterwards. Möller's restoration in 1889 saves it from total collaps. A new restoration of the ruins is in process today.