Calvinist Church
Biserica Reformată
Calvinist Church
Biserica Reformată
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
GPS coordinates:
45.8369855146, 23.1959026744
History
The church was built in the 15th century on the site of an earlier church with three naves dating from the 12th and 13th centuries. The bastioned defensive walls were built around the church in the first half of the 14th century, during the Gothic rebuilding. The tower collapsed in an earthquake in 1839, and the present tower was built between 1840-43. An 11th century rotunda (round church) was excavated next to the sanctuary.
The busts of Kuún Kocsárd and Kuún Géza, originally standing in front of the new college building, were erected in the Reformed Church.
In 1834 Count Kuún Kocsárd was elected the superintendent of the Reformed (Calvinist) grammar school in Szászváros, an office he held for the rest of his life. In 1848 he became a member of the Hungarian Parliament representing Hunyad County, and was appointed ispán of Hunyad Count by the national government. After the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, his estates were confiscated and he was imprisoned in Komárom for 6 years. He was released in 1856 and was given back his estates.
He restored his estate and his manor house in Algyógy, which had been devastated by the Vlachs. In 1866, he was re-elected to the Hungarian Parliament by the district of Hátszeg in Hunyad Count and in 1867 he was again appointed the county's ispán. He had the building of the reformed college in Szászváros renovated at his own expense and donated 120,000 forints. In 1887, he donated his estate in Algyógy to the Transylvanian Hungarian Cultural Association (EMKE). In 1892 he donated his remaining property to the association. He died in 1895 and was buried at the expense of the association. The EMKE was founded in 1885 in Kolozsvár with the aim of strengthening the Hungarian language and culture. It maintained hundreds of schools, kindergartens, libraries and orphanages throughout Transylvania. It was dissolved by the communists in 1947. It was re-established in 1991 in Brassó.
Count Kuun Géza (1838-1905) was a Hungarian linguist, philologist, orientalist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, university professor. We will mention only a few of his many activities. Among others, he was president and founding member of the Hungarian Ethnographic Society, president and founding member of the Hunyad County Historical and Archaeological Society. He was a founding member of the Hungarian Historical Society, the Hungarian Heraldic and Genealogical Society and the Transylvanian Museum Association. He was also the superintendent of the Reformed Diocese and one of the superintendents of the Reformed College in Szászváros.
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