Franciscan Church (Budapest)
The Inner City or Pest Franciscan Church (Hungarian Belvárosi or Pesti Ferences Templom ) is located in the 5th district ( Belváros ) of the Hungarian capital Budapest . It is located at Franziskanerplatz ( Ferenciek tere ) 9 and is an important baroque building that is also a listed building. It is consecrated to St. Peter of Alcantara .
history
King Béla IV had the first Franciscan church built in the Gothic style on the site around 1250 . After the king's election in the Hungarian state parliament on the Rákos meadow, the Te Deum was sung in this church .
On September 23, 1526 the Gothic church was destroyed by the Turks and the friars murdered, including the priest P. András Vásárhelyi, author of the Marian hymn Angyaloknak Nagyságos Asszonya (1508). After the final conquest of the city by the Turks in 1541, the building was restored and served as a mosque under the name Dschami des Beg Sinan .
After the Ottomans were driven out of Pest , the Franciscans held a Catholic service in the building for the first time in the summer of 1686. In 1690, Emperor Leopold I officially handed the church back to the Franciscans . After a few decades, the church was completely rebuilt in the baroque style. The building was consecrated on September 21, 1741.
In the 19th century, the Franciscan Church was a spiritual center of the city. The so-called Pest Preacher Trio, the Fathers Albach (preached in German), Gegó (Hungarian) and Gasparich (Croatian), worked here. In 1849, Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány was laid out in the church's crypt.
During the communist era, the Franciscan Order Province was dissolved in 1950. Since September 1, 1990, the Franciscans are again in possession of the Church.
Church building
The church is located on Ferenciek tere (Franziskanerplatz), corner of Kossuth Lajos ut. On the main facade facing the square is the portal with the Franciscan order. Above is a statue of Mary, flanked by two adoring angels. To the right of the portal is a crucifixion group. There are also figures of Saints Peter of Alcantara , Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua in niches on the facade . To the side of the choir rises the tower, the helmet of which was built by Franz Wieser in 1861.
Inside, the pilasted church has three side chapels on both sides. The furnishings consist of several baroque altars and frescoes by Károly Lotz from the years 1894–1895.
On the side facade facing Kossuth Lajos utca, which has three small and four larger windows, there is a bronze relief that commemorates the devastating flooding of the city in 1838 and the selfless efforts of Baron Miklós Wesselényi , who personally saved many people from the floods. The relief was created by Barnabás Holló in 1895.
literature
- Marianne Mehling (Hrsg.): Knaurs culture guide in color Hungary . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-26623-7 , p. 105
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Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 19 ° 3 ′ 22.3 ″ E