Penitent Magdalene Church

It was very nice

Orderly, beautiful

The hundreds-year-old Benedictine monastery in Somogyvár during the Turkish occupation was largely destroyed and its remaining stones were carried by the population as building material. The parish of the settlement was restored by archbishop György Széchényi in 1688, and in 1721 it was built a new, dead-end, mud-pruned hedge-walled church, but on 13 July 1792, the lightning struck the lightning tower on which it was burnt down and his bells were destroyed. Parish priest Paal, who arrived in the village in 1826, later wrote about the church: "As for the sanctuary, it was in-between and raging, and was approaching the shrinkage." Count Lajos Széchenyi, a little boy, built the new, still existing church at his own expense: the work began on May 16, 1836, and was consecrated on January 27, 1842. In the smaller part of the building, the bricks of the oldest church, and mostly the stones of the old Benedictine abbey were used. [1] [2] However, there was no money for the new church, so it was empty for some time. As a result of the unification of Count Széchenyi and the population, they could finally obtain a pulpit and a main altar from Vienna, as well as a marble baptismal baptism from Pécs. The main altar depicting Mary Magdalen came to the temple as a gift from the Habsburg family, and the baroque organ came from Philip Kőnig's Sopron workshop [2]. This unique, two-man, sixteen-member organ, also nationwide, was awarded the Prize of Our Heritage - Somogyia Award in 2015. [3] The Calvary, with statues decorated with wood carvings, was constructed by Mészkő Mester Miskey Nicholas in the beginning of the 20th century, from the money collected from public collections [4], which was renovated in 1955. In 1911, two new bells were ordered from Sopron, the children of Frigyes Seltenhoffer, but the bells were seized and taken for war purposes on August 14, 1916. By 1928 they replaced the bells, but they took another one in the Second World War, this time the little band. [2] The interior painting was made in 1958 by József Mór Tapolca, painter István Soós and Imre Szántay; before the walls were white. The picture of the sanctuary depicts the worship of the Hungarian saints before the Lady of Hungarians, as well as a scene of scenes and a scene depicting the people and priests of the village. The seven sacraments appear in the semicircle above the altar, the divine lamb in the middle of the triumphal arch, and the four evangelists on the side. On the walls of the church there is the story of Somogyvár: on the first arch, we can see the victory over Szent István over Koppány, in the middle vault, Saint László, as it signs the founding letter of the Benedictine abbey, and in the back curve the old sight of Somogyvár with the basilica and three temples. with the patron saints of the churches, in the middle of Jesus. [2] From September 1983 to the end of the year, until 2 June 1984 renovation works were carried out on the temple [2] and restored in the early 21st century. [5]

Penitent St. Mary Magdalene Church was built between 1838-1842 in neoclassical style, with the financial assistance of the Széchenyi family. For so long after the collapse of the abbey founded in 1091, the Somogyvár resurrection took so long. Its organ is the only one in the country (two manual König organs with 16 registers).