Kaposszentjakab (formerly called Zselicszentjakab) is the site of a ruined
Benedictine
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monastery. The monastery site and the surrounding village is now a suburb of the city of
Kaposvár
Kaposvár (; also known by other alternative names) is a city with county rights in the southwestern part of Hungary, south of Lake Balaton. It is one of the leading cities of Transdanubia, the capital of Somogy County, and the seat of the Kaposvá ...
in southwestern Hungary.
History
The village was the place of a
St Benedict
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monastery in the
Árpád
Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or ''kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' gy ...
age. Some lands in the village were the private properties of the Genere Győr. In 1256 the members of the
Genere Győr had given their
Zselicszentjakab family monastery
A house monastery, family monastery or dynastic monastery (german: Hauskloster) is a Christian monastery that has a particular relationship with a noble family.
Often, but not always, what subsequently became the house monastery was founded by t ...
to
Pannonhalma Archabbey
The Benedictine Pannonhalma Archabbey or Territorial Abbey of Pannonhalma (lat. ''Archiabbatia'' or ''Abbatia Territorialis Sancti Martini in Monte Pannoniae'') is a medieval building in Pannonhalma, one of the oldest historical monuments in Hun ...
. In 1328 the Genere Győr (Péter and Miklós, sons of Derzs) and the abbot of Zselicszentjakab changed back the lands of the monastery by the lands of
Rábacsécsény at the Pannonhalma Archeabbey.
The
Somogy County
Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
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villages suffered great devastation during the Turkish wars, and Zselicszentjakab monastery was also destroyed.
Architecture
The ruins shows the ground plan of the church building and the monastery. The church had three naves. Architectural comparisons proved the eastern connections of the central space, with four columns. This church belonged to the Eastern Orthodox (Caucasian, Byzantine) tradition, in common with churches in
Tarnaszentmária,
Feldebrő Feldebrő is a village in Heves county in Hungary.
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Feldebrő stands in the valley of the Tarna River, at the southeastern foot of the Mátra Mountains. Nearby villages include Vécs, Aldebrő, Tófalu, Kerecsend, Egerszólát, and Ve ...
,
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...
, and
Szekszárd
Szekszárd (, formerly also ''Szegzárd''; hr, Seksar; german: Sechshard or ; sr, Сексард) is a small city in southern Hungary and the capital of Tolna County. By population, Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area ...
. Ruins of a central spaced chapel can also be found north of the monastery buildings.
References
*Kumorovitz L. Bernát (1964): A zselicszentjakabi alapítólevél 1061-ből (The foundation charter of the Zselicszentjakab Monastery)("Pest legkorábbi említése"). TBM 16, 43–83. p.
*Győrffy Gy. Győr vármegye (County Győr).
*Győr vármegye nemesi közgyűléseinek regesztái (Regestrum of the council of Győr County)
*Horváth M. (1844): Magyarok története. 3. vol. (The History of the Hungarians). Pápa
External links
Images about the architectural remnants of the monastery Zselicszentjakab.Aerial view of the ruins of the monastery.
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
Former municipalities of Hungary
Kaposvár
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