Calvinist Church
Kalvínsky kostol
Calvinist Church
Kalvínsky kostol
Address:
J. Kármána 64/1, 984 01 Lučenec
Historical Hungarian county:
Nógrád
GPS coordinates:
48.328798, 19.669583
History
Its predecessor was built by Lambert, Palatine of Hungary, the son of the daughter of King László I of Hungary. In the 15th century the leader of the Czech Hussite marauders, Jiskra, turned it into a fortified church. The Calvinists took it into their possession in 1608. The church was seriously damaged in August 1849, when the town was burned by the Russian troops, which were called in by the Habsburg ruler to intervene in the Hungarian War of Independence on his side. It was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style between 1851 and 1863 according to the plans of Wagner János. It was consecrated in 1864. At the beginning of the renovation in 1851 graves containing gold and silver jewels were found in the church. The so called "Treasure of Losonc" can be seen in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. The church was heavily damaged in the fights at the end of World War ll. Behind the Soviet tanks the Czechoslovak administration crept back to the Hungarian town. The Czechoslovak president Benes arbitrarily deprived the Reformed Church of all its possessions in his decrees, so they could not renovate the building. The Reformed Church recovered the building in 2005 and started to use it as it was originally intended. On July 21, 2015 a plaque was unveiled commemorating the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the church and also the 10th anniversary of its recovery.
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