Kaposszentjakab (formerly called Zselicszentjakab) is the site of a ruined
Benedictine monastery. The monastery site and the surrounding village is now a suburb of the city of
Kaposvár in southwestern Hungary.
History
The village was the place of a
St Benedict monastery in the
Árpád 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 to
Pannonhalma Archabbey. 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
Rábacsécsény is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northea ...
at the Pannonhalma Archeabbey.
The
Somogy County 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
Tarnaszentmária is a village at the foot of the Mátra Mountains in Heves County, Hungary.
Sightseeing
In Tarnaszentmária, one of the oldest Hungarian churches can be found. It was founded by the Genus Aba, who were related to the Árpád hou ...
,
Feldebrő,
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. 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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