Hidegség ( hr, Vedešin) is a village in
Győr-Moson-Sopron county,
Hungary
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Sightseeing for visitors: the old church of Árpád age
In the village there is an old architectural heritage from the romanesque art: the church standing on the top of the hill above the village. The church consists of two parts. Older is the rotunda on the east side of the recent building. Younger is, although it is also of Árpád age, the village romanesque church with murals. Special arrangement of the Hidegség parochial church, that all the rotund is built inside the rectangular building, so the rotunda is invisible looking the church from outside. There are beautiful mural paintings in the rotunda of Hidegség, it is also an important artistic heritage from the 13th century in Hungary.
The architectural arrangement of the Hidegség parochial church has several relatives of this type in the
Carpathian Basin
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: Herencsény, Bagod-Szentpál,
Herencsény
Herencsény is a village and municipality in the comitat of Nógrád, Hungary
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. Another group of such extended rotunda old parochial churches have a specific characteristic: the six folded inner structure of
Karcsa
Karcsa is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary
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, Gerény and
Kiszombor
Kiszombor is a more than 800 years old village in Csongrád County, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 3795 people (2015).
It is an agricultural village, near the Maros ...
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Outer references
* Gerő, L. (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. (Hungarian Architectural Heritage ABC.) Budapest
* Gervers-Molnár, V. (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
* Henszlmann, I. (1876): ''Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése'', (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest
External links
Street map
Populated places in Győr-Moson-Sopron County
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
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