Point of interest-Sopron - Church of St. Michael
St Michael's Church is the oldest parish church in Sopron. It is located on a very important traffic route in the Szentmihálydomb district.
In accordance with early medieval customs, it was built in a cemetery in the 13th century, before the Tatar invasion, and was therefore outside the fortified city wall (the city centre). Originally built in Romanesque style, the church was rebuilt in Gothic style in the 15th century. After the fire of Sopron in 1728, the church was rebuilt in Baroque style, and then Ferenc Storno, removing the Baroque features, rebuilt it in Neo-Gothic style. Today it is one of the most important Gothic churches in Hungary.
The only Gothic artwork from the time of King Matthias has survived. It is the carved wooden statue of the Virgin Mary. The statue was returned to the church in 1868 from the Pázmáneum in Vienna, with the intervention of Prince Primate János Simor. The flooring of the treasury is unique. It is the only place in Hungary where a continuous ceramic floor of this size can be found.
The church is decorated in neo-Gothic and Romantic styles. Its treasury contains missal chalices, beautiful silver chalices and other jewellery from the 16th and 18th centuries.
The church organ was made by the Riegler organ factory in 1944, commissioned by the parish priest Kálmán Papp.
Source of text and photos: https://hu.wikipedia.org
- Sopron - Szent Mihály-templom
