Árpás
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Árpás village is situated in the north-western part of Hungary, next to the river RábaRába
The Rába is a river in southeastern Austria and western Hungary and a right tributary of the Danube. Its source is in Austria, some kilometres east of Bruck an der Mur below Heubodenhöhe Hill. It flows through the Austrian states of Styria and Burgenland, and the Hungarian counties of Vas and...
, about 30 km from Győr
Gyor
-Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...
. The bridge of Árpás is an important crossing point.
The surface is plan but there are some hills in the centre. It is defended by a bund from the floods. Around the village there are backwater lakes, forests and fields. Árpás has three parts. One is the centre where the most of people live, one out of the river and the last one is some farms from 5 km far the village centre on the same side.
The village is famous for its Premonstratensian
Premonstratensian
The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines, or in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons , are a Catholic religious order of canons regular founded at Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg...
provostry named Saint James
Saint James
-Saints:*James the Just, considered the author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament, and the first bishop of Jerusalem*James, son of Zebedee, apostle, brother of John the Apostle, sometimes called "James the Great"...
. The provostry was founded in 1251 by Móric Nagy. In 1300 Árpás was the property of Count Lőrinc Cseszneky. The monastery was inhabited by Premonstratensian nouns from 1526 till 1577. After the Turkish wars Poor Clares nouns came to the monastery from Nagyszombat
Trnava
Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres . It was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric . The city has a historic center...
. They rebuilt the church in barock style. Later this church became the parish church of the village.
The church is a beautiful example of the brick architecture from the Árpád age. One nave is built and closed with simple apsis, and two towers rule the western façade
Facade
A facade or façade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face"....
of the church, as it is regular in many cases in Hungary. It has a romanesque western doorway with tympanon. The painting of the main altar shows Madonna with mantle, a rather popular iconographical topics. In the beginning of 19th century a lot of people emigrated to the overseas.