Articular Church
Articular Church is the name of Protestant wooden churches in Slovakia (formerly Upper Hungary ).
The Turkish attacks forced Emperor Leopold I to grant the Protestant Christians certain freedoms. Therefore, according to the resolutions of the Ödenburger Landtag of 1681 , Protestant parishes were allowed to build churches outside the city walls on a fixed location, which were not allowed to have a tower, bells or a brick foundation. They had to be built without stones, bricks and metal nails (resolutions "Artikuli" 25 and 26). In addition, only one church should be built in each royal free town and a maximum of two churches in each county. As a result of these resolutions, a total of 38 Protestant churches emerged.
The churches were based on the model of the Holy Trinity Church in Schweidnitz in Silesia in the shape of a cross and usually had a barrel vault .
A total of five articulated churches in Kežmarok (German Käsmark , Hungarian Késmárk ), Svätý Kríž , Leštiny , Istebné and Hronsek have been preserved. Those in Kežmarok, Leštiny and Hronsek are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites . The articulated churches and the structural restrictions imposed on them can serve as a model for the regulations of Joseph II's tolerance patent issued 100 years later .
The only articulate community in what is now Austria was the Reformed community of Oberwart .
Picture gallery of the five articulate churches
Articular Church in Kežmarok (1717)
Articular Church in Svätý Kríž (1693 in Paludza)
Hronsek Articular Church
Istebne Articular Church
Leštiny Articular Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Church in Kežmarok ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 10, 2016 (Slovak)
- ↑ Articular Church Käsmark (accessed October 10, 2016)
- ↑ Svätý Kríž Articular Church (accessed October 10, 2016)
- ↑ Leštiny Articular Church (accessed October 10, 2016)
- ↑ Articular Church Istebne ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 10, 2016)
- ↑ Hronsek Articular Church (accessed on October 10, 2016)
