Gyügye is a small

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in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

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of eastern

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Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 271 people (2001).

Sightseeings

The old reformed church is worth visiting because of its beautiful and renowned

coffered ceiling A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also c ...

decorated in the church's inner space. The church was built in the 13th century in the romanesque style.

References

*Bérczi Sz, Bérczi Zs., Bérczi K. (2002): Kazettás mennyezetek. (Coffered ceilings.) Licium-Art, Debrecen *Tombor I. (1968): Magyarországi festett famennyezetek és rokonemlékek a XV-XIX. századból. (Painted Coffered Ceilings from Hungary from the 15-16th Century.) Akadémiai K. Budapest *Balogh J. (1939): A késő-gótikus és a renaissance-kor művészete. (Art of the Late-Gothic and Renaissance Age in Hungary.) Magyar művelődéstörténet. 2. (Szerk. Domanovszky S., Ed.), Budapest

Outer links

Images of the church.Details about the art of the church.
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Romanesque architecture in Hungary {{Szabolcs-geo-stub