Roman Catholic church and Esterházy Mausoleum in Nagyganna, Ganna - Ganna

Very nice church with interesting guided tours. Interesting mausoleum.

Wonderful village with beautiful houses, in the church there is a mausoleum of the Esterházy family. Péter Esterházy was buried here.

Although I could only see it from the outside, it is a very nice building.

Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Gannah. church was consecrated in 1818. In the lower church there is a mausoleum of the Esterházy family. The Kossuth Prize-winning writer Péter Esterházy was also buried here. The National Heritage Institute has declared the mausoleum a National Cemetery.

Beautiful, clean and quiet village. The Eszterházy family built this huge basilica, whose graveyard is famous in Europe. Worth to come! Once we are here we can go hiking in the area.

This is what you need to see! Ganna is home to the most beautiful classicist basilica in the country. The origins of this Greek cross-based church, crowned with a huge dome, are already interesting. In 1748, Maria Theresa gave the area to the Esterházy family. They then had three main estates here: Tata, Pápa and Csákvár headquarters. If we connect these three settlements, we get a triangle whose center is Ganna. The family was determined to build a unique church here, the “miracle” of which they go to, where they can find ultimate peace in the sub-church. In 1808, the decision was followed by a large-scale plan of Charles Moreau, the celebrated “star architect” of the age, commissioned by Miklós Esterházy. One or two solutions were so novel that Joseph Czehmaister, the first master builder accustomed to the Baroque, broke his knife. His successor, József Ferenc Engel, smoothly realized Moreau's dream. My ears bisected as I read that the “miracle” pulled up in 6 years cost more than 300,000 silver forints. (Think about it, in 1825 the richest lord of the country, István Széchenyi, had an annual income of 60,000!) Pestiesen: This is not a sponge cake! The “crown” of the church dedicated to St. Anne is the grandiose dome, which is 20 meters high and 16 meters in diameter. A replica of the Roman Pantheon. Even his painting was “snatched away” from his Roman predecessors. The interior is decorated with a beautiful red marble altar and statues. The statue of Our Lady above the main altar is made of marble. The other sculptures are made of sand, yet they shine as if they were also made of marble. The trick to this is that in 1872 they were smeared with oil paint, they shine like… .. and do not even dust. Two in one fell swoop. Incidentally, the dozens of masterpieces were written by Joseph Klieber, a teacher at the Vienna Academy. This church is so majestic and so unique that when I first entered, it was true that my eyes and number widened at the sight. Remember, man, that you have become dust and become dust! After admiring myself in the part above, I descended like Orpheus. The sub-church was waiting for me, where dozens of famous Esterházys are waiting for the resurrection. An inscription on an oak sign at the entrance reminds me of my mortality. Memento mori. The side of the crypt is lined with marble and bronze sarcophagi. When I went there, 54 Esterházy rested there, and since then their number has increased by one. Writer Péter Esterházy was buried here in August 2016. The sarcophagi followed the current fashion of the age, so we also take a time travel to get our gaze around. The romantic, dignified geometric marble is replaced by a richer ore, the eclectic crowded with lion claws and embossed. In 1936, they descended deeper and deepened another level, but its isolation was poorly managed. No coffin has been there since then, its entrance is blocked by a bronze gate. The center of the crypt is a round space with real rarity in the middle. There are only two of these in the world. IX. Pope Pius authorized this strange altar. The marble altar has a corpus on each side of the cross. Here, two masses were said at once. The priest in the white Mass prayed for the living, the black in the Mass suit for the dead. It could have been such a ceremony! Another curiosity! One of the first tour guides was Mihály Táncsics.

Ganna is a beautiful little village, which is why it is worth turning around. We did not get into the ancient mausoleum of the Esterházy family, because prior registration is required, but there was a mass in the church before Easter, which became an unforgettable memory from the wonderful singing of the village women!