Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Arhitectura ecleziastică din Satu Mare (Satu Mare, 2008)
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century, in 1597, and it was dedicated to St. Ladislaus. The church was used again by the Calvinists during the 17th century (1634), until, in the 1720s, the new owner, count Alexander Károlyi moved the Calvinist community to the village Dobra, and colonized here Schwabs of Catholic origin. The right to use the church was given to the new inhabitants, who renovated and vaulted the building in 1730. The medieval church was built in late gothic style, with a polygonal sanctuary and a wide nave. The tower on the facade is octagonal on the upper levels, and it has an entrance with gothic frame and a freeze in pointed arch. The gothic frames of the windows and their tracery were still kept in the 19th century. The church was surrounded with a small, probably medieval, fence containing the representations of the Stations of the Passion. The church was transformed in neo-gothic style, according to the project of Foerk Ernő at the beginning of the 20th century: a new nave was built on the western side, and a new sanctuary on the southern side. The original sanctuary became a side chapel. The neo-gothic sanctuary contains the image of St. Ladislaus, alongside of four statues representing St. Stephen, St. Emeric, St. Adalbert and St. Gerard. Three engraved slabs of the thumb of Bálint Prépostváry (+1597) are incorporated in the main altar. The local tradition explains the origin of the village’s name with a legend: King St. Ladislaus was passing through the settlement and became thirsty, a soldier offered him wine in a pumpkin (=tök in Hung., the Hungarian name of the village kept the altered form of the ‘tök’ > ‘tek’ > Beitek); the king found the wine very tasty so donated the village to the soldier. (TSz). Bereu (Comuna Lazuri) Biserica reformată Nava bisericii poate fi datată în secolul al XV-lea. Conform obiceiurilor perioadei respective, uşa, precum şi cele două geamuri înguste, semicirculare în partea superioară, sunt situate pe faţada sudică. Sanctuarul original a fost demolat în timpul restaurării din 1840, când nava edificiului a fost alungită pentru a putea adăposti mai mulţi credincioşi. închiderea noii părţi a navei este semicirculară. Din mobilierul edificiului merită menţionat amvonul alipit de perete. La piciorul amvonului este integrată o piatră profilată cu inscripţia: „Foedus cum Caesare” (Alianţă cu împăratul). Conform tradiţiei locale, locuitorii protestanţi ai satului 31
