Lébény is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron

Gyor-Moson-Sopron

Győr-Moson-Sopron is the name of an administrative county in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia and Austria. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Komárom-Esztergom, Veszprém and Vas. The capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county is Győr...

 county, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. It has a romanesque

Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...

 family church from the 12th century. Similar medieval Hungarian clan / family financed "house" churches are in Ják

Ják

-The most complete Romanesque Church in Hungary:Ják is the parochial church of a village at the western boundary of Hungary. Originally the church has been built for a St. Benedictian Monastery. The village church was a rotunda in front of the facade of the main doorway of the Ják church.Both...

, Ócsa

Ócsa

-The Árpád Age Romanesque church:The church was originally built in the 13th century by the Premontre Order for use as a monastery...

, Nyírbátor

Nyírbátor

Nyírbátor /ˈɲiːɾbaːtoɾ/ is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. With its historic atmosphere, this city is known for its 15th- and 16th-century ecclesiastic and secular built heritage and for the family of the former landowners, the Báthory...

, Harina, Mălâncrav

Laslea

Laslea is a commune located in Sibiu County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Floreşti , Laslea, Mălâncrav , Nou Săsesc and Roandola ....

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Romanesque Church in Hungary from the early 13th century

Lébény, a village midway between Mosonmagyaróvár and Győr, North-West Hungary, has a famous historical monument, the St. James' parochial church. Originally, the church was built for a Benedictian Monastery. Its three naves and three apses are formed in a basilica

Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a Roman public building, usually located in the forum of a Roman town. Public basilicas began to appear in Hellenistic cities in the 2nd century BC.The term was also applied to buildings used for religious purposes...

structure. Columnar capitals are sculptured in the form of plant ornamentation.

Outer references

• Gerő László (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. Budapest,
• Gervers-Molnár Vera (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
• Henszlmann Imre: Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése, Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest, 1876.

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