- Kisnána
Kisnána is a village in
Heves county ,Hungary , located 25 kilometres fromGyöngyös to the northeast.There is a castle in the village that was built in the 11th or12th century .ightseeing for visitors
The village has an interesting assembly of buildings worth visiting. They are the old castle and the old church of Árpád age inside the castle.
Castle
In the Árpád age the region was in the possession of the Aba Genus, which was related to the king of Hungary. The leader of the Genus, Aba Sámuel married the sister of king Saint Stephen. In 1044 Aba Sámuel became king of Hungary. Later descendents of the Genus were smaller families and one of them, the Kompolti family became the landowner of Kisnána. Kompolti János built the first part of the castle, as mentioned in the charters from 1445 about the „castrum” (fortress). In 1521 the landowner of the castle is István Losonczy who defended Temesvár against the Türks. The last owner was László Móré, who alternately supported the two kings of the early Türkish times: János Szapolyai or Habsburg Ferdinánd. But the Törks defeated him and László Móré died in the prison of Seven Towers in Istambul, capitol of the Osman Turk Empire.
Church
In the old castle of the Kompolti family there is another, even older architectural heritage from the early Árpád ages. It is a gothic church, originally built in romanesque style. The excavations of the ruins of this church revealed the foundations of the ancient rotunda. Originally this rotunda had been built first on the hill and later it was gradually extended. When the Kompolti family surrounded it by walls, they developed it as the castle-church and rebuilt it finally in gothic style in the 14th century.
Outer references
* Gerő, L. (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. (Hungarian Architectural Heritage ABC.) Budapest
* Gervers-Molnár, V. (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
* Henszlmann, I. (1876): "Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése", (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest
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