Ecseri Templomrom

Like everything, this church ruin has its own charm. The church, once built by our predecessors, faithfully reflects the religiosity of the people of the Great Plain. It also commemorates a former settlement called Ecser.

Worth to see and the panorama next to the ruin is unparalleled

Nothing extra, we've seen such ruins before. But it’s good that at least that’s what is guarded and taken care of. There is also a geocache.

Disappointingly jerky and rude reception. A "self-appointed" caretaker in Pökhend who ignores Christian and Hungarian values. Look at the picture, but don't visit!

The ruin looks beautiful from a distance, amazingly amazing as the walls rise in the great wilderness. On the site you can read about the history of the former settlement and the past of the church ruins. The only negative in it is that it is not really original. It seems that some parts have been overhauled too much, while others are made of regularly laid brick and concrete. However, there are also plenty of original stones.

Nice place, very cozy, I'm glad we stopped here, thanks to geocaching.hu. Although, if the settlement were still standing, it would be the real ?.

Suddenly this beautiful monument pops up in the wilderness next to the reeds. Church ruins from the Middle Ages. Wasp stones were also used for its construction, as in several other churches in the Great Plain. Worth checking out!

Szentes and the only partial medieval monument on its border is the ruins of the church in Eger, which is the last memory of the village here before Turkish times. The village of Ecser was first mentioned in documents in 1138. During the Tartar invasion, the village was destroyed, but it was repopulated because Kun became an accommodation area. According to some sources, it was originally Kun accommodation and then Kun village. The conversion of the Cumans to the Christian faith may have resulted in the construction of the temple. The village and its church were later burned down by the Turkish armies marching against Gyula in 1566. In 1733 the ruins of the tower still stood, today they are no longer visible. Today, only the name of the settlement near the ruins, Belső-Ecser, refers to the name of the village. The church belonged directly to the archbishop of Esztergom, and the spiritual care was provided by Franciscans. The windows of the nave preserve the Romanesque style. The sanctuary is octagonal, forming an apse with the ship on three sides. The building has a typical Romanesque masonry. Based on the archaeological finds, the time of construction dates back to the 13th century. to the second half of the XIV century, or the XIV. can be dated to the first half of the century. Based on the posted OMVH table, the XIII.-XV. It was built in the 16th century, which is quite a wide time interval. The size of the bricks, the different masonry technique, the Romanian window with a semicircular closure above the southern entrance prove that the church also had an Árpádian period. It was excavated in the 1960s. In the 2010s, several successful rescue initiatives were launched, but vandals also left their mark on the ruins. The ruins are located along the road from Szentes to Szarvas, next to the Cserebökényi steppe belonging to the Körös-Maros National Park, in the middle of the field.