<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>After the flood has demolished the largest part of Szeged the citizens decided to build a Votive church dedicated to Virgin Mary as a symbol of Hungarian national identit. After the opening design tender finally Ernő Foerk was assigned as architect to design the new church. During the years numerous events stucked the construction like from the question of the designer person, the breaking out of the World War I. till the finding of a medieval tower inside the walls of the former church. We can have a deeper glimpse into the details of the story of the architecture due to Foerk’s diary is held in the Hungarian Museum of Architecture.</p></abstract>

After the flood has demolished the largest part of Szeged the citizens decided to build a Votive church dedicated to Virgin Mary as a symbol of Hungarian national identit. After the opening design tender finally Ernő Foerk was assigned as architect to design the new church. During the years numerous events stucked the construction like from the question of the designer person, the breaking out of the World War I. till the finding of a medieval tower inside the walls of the former church. We can have a deeper glimpse into the details of the story of the architecture due to Foerk’s diary is held in the Hungarian Museum of Architecture.

From the Foundation Stone to the Cathedral: Architecture of the Votive Church of Szeged

Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Center

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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After the flood has demolished the largest part of Szeged the citizens decided to build a Votive church dedicated to Virgin Mary as a symbol of Hungarian...

From the Foundation Stone to the Cathedral: Architecture of the Votive Church of Szeged

Published Online: May 28, 2019

Page range: 57 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2019-0012

Keywords
architecture, Votive church, Cathedral, Dömötör tower, Ernő Foerk, Szeged, Hungary,

© 2019 Eszter Baldavári, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

From the Foundation Stone to the Cathedral: Architecture of the Votive Church of Szeged

Published Online: May 28, 2019

Page range: 57 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2019-0012

Keywordsarchitecture, Votive church, Cathedral, Dömötör tower, Ernő Foerk, Szeged, Hungary,

© 2019 Eszter Baldavári, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
architecture, Votive church, Cathedral, Dömötör tower, Ernő Foerk, Szeged, Hungary,