Location: Vár utca 1, Pannonhalma, Győr-Moson-Sopron county Map
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The Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma was founded in 996 and
has been operating continuously since then. It is located in
Győr-Moson-Sopron county, in the Pannonhalma district, in the
town of Pannonhalma (formerly known as Győrszentmárton). It is
still inhabited by a community of about forty monks, who perform
the liturgy in the spirit of the ora et labora, receive
spiritual practitioners, operate a boarding grammar school,
perform cultural work - run a library, archive, museum,
publishing house, organize concerts - and work. including the
maintenance of a winery, a brewery, an herb garden and the
reception of guests.
Today's name Pannonhalma first
appeared in the correspondence between the Benedictine monk
Ferenc Kazinczy and the Benedictine monk Izidor Guzmics. Due to
the attractiveness of the archabbey and the natural endowments
of the area, the city is one of the most visited destinations on
the tourist map of Hungary, the settlement is equipped for
tourism. The main tourist attraction, the “millennial abbey” is
not only of architectural significance, but with its versatile
exhibitions and collections reveals cultural and historical
monuments to the visitor. Due to its tourist significance,
Pannonhalma is often understood only as the Benedictine
Archabbey of Pannonhalma.
The spectacular complex of
buildings of the archabbey was built on the hill of St. Martin,
on the nearly 300-meter-high hill at the confluence of the
Bakony and the Kisalföld. The Romanesque-style sub-church and
belfry, as well as the Gothic basilica, have been complemented
over the centuries by Baroque and Classicist-style parts of the
building that define the present-day image of the archabbey.
Numerous book rarities are preserved in the 400,000th collection
of the 19th century library room. The whole building complex is
crowned by one of the most famous works of Hungarian classicism,
the 55-meter-high tower.
The original name of the city:
Győrszentmárton. It has been inhabited since ancient times and,
according to some historians, was built on the site of a Roman city
called Civitas Pannonia. The first settlement is in the 10–11. In
the 16th century it was a princely manor house and its property in
the Panja Valley. The accommodation and then the village were
established from 996, after Prince Géza settled on the hill
Benedictine monks summoned from the Czech Republic. Stephen I
confirmed the rights of the monastery.
Master Albeus, IV.
Béla's authentic compiler, who was commissioned by the king to
compile the estates of the monastery of St. Martin, mentions the
village under this name around 1240. Father Uros (1207-1243), the
builder of the temple that still stands today, repelled the Mongols
from under the walls of the monastery fortress. After the Tartar
invasion, the village was repopulated. In 1334, Károly Róbert
confirmed the abbot of Pannonhalma in his fair law in Alsok. A
14–15. century is the time of the first great heyday. With the
addition or merging of some neighboring, non-viable estates,
accommodation or villages, the border increased, the population
swelled and the arable population appeared, with it the land and
even the major farming. Felsok (today's Váralja) is partly
independent, but its market and fair space is shared with Alsok. The
settlement rose to the rank of a village (villa), at that time it
already had a church (1338) and a parish, which got its name from
the patron saint of the basilica.
During the abbey of Máté
Tolnai, Pannonhalma was given a prominent place among the
Benedictine monasteries in Hungary, and in 1514 it became the main
abbey, but during the century and a half of Turkish occupation, the
monks had to flee several times for longer or shorter periods; the
buildings were damaged. Most of them were restored and expanded in
Baroque style under the archabbey of Benedict Sajghó.
II.
Joseph ceased to function in 1786. The Benedictine order was
restored by Francis I in 1802, which receives education as its
primary task.
The most important stages in the development of
the monastery can be read in the discussion of the individual parts.
In 1896, seven millennium monuments were erected in Hungary; one
of them stands in Pannonhalma.
In December 1996, the
archabbey and its surroundings were declared a World Heritage Site.
In December 2004, he received the Hungarian Heritage Award.
Parishes
The Archabbey of Pannonhalma has carried out
pastoral work since the beginning, in which it was directly
subordinated to the Pope. In other words, the abbot and archbishop
of Pannonhalma took care of filling the pastoral places (monastic
priest) on the estates of the abbey with parish priests. He
performed all duties that did not require an ordained bishop. This
state changed in 1950 by restricting the operation of the order, and
the parish priests of the diocese of Pannonhalma were taken over by
the diocese of Győr. A II. after the Vatican Council, the former
exempt diocese became an exempt territorial abbey.
After
1990, the archabbey regained its parishes from the diocese of Győr.
Since the settlement of the dioceses on May 30, 1993, the
Pannonhalma Regional Abbey has 15 parishes: Bakonybél, Bakonypéterd,
Győr-Győrszentiván, Győr-Kismegyer, Győr-Ménfőcsanak,
Győrasasszonyfa, Lázi, Nyalka, Pannonhalma, Tarazd, Táp Elders,
Veszprémvarsány.
The parishioners partly live locally, and
partly with the help of the other members of the order from the
archabbey. The pastoral work of the Pannonhalma Basilica is led by a
church director. The parish of Tihany supplies the parishes of
Tihany and Aszófő in the archdiocese of Veszprém. In the diocese of
Esztergom-Budapest, the Chapel of St. Sabina in Budapest, and in the
diocese of Győr, the Benedictine churches of Győr and Sopron are
also run by Benedictines.
Today, the Benedictine community in
Pannonhalma has about forty members.
Activities
The
Benedictines of Pannonhalma perform the liturgy in the spirit of the
ora et labora, receive spiritual practitioners, operate the
residential grammar school, perform cultural work - operating a
library, archive, museum, publishing house, organizing concerts - as
well as working on the financial foundations of the abbey. ,
maintaining a herb garden and welcoming guests.
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The
life of the Benedictine community is defined by a triad of prayer,
work, and spiritual reading. The liturgy has an emphatic role: their
day is determined by the liturgy of the prayer hours and the liturgy
of the Eucharist. Reading the Scriptures and individual prayer also
play a major role in the lives of monks.
The abbey has been
hosting spiritual practitioners for about fifty years to celebrate
the three holy days of Easter.
Institutions
Pannonhalma
Benedictine Grammar School and College
The Benedictine order in Hungary has been dealing
with secondary school education and upbringing since 1802; he has
always placed an emphasis on personal care and high quality training
in his schools.
Pannonhalma is the first, oldest school in
Hungary. Its foundation can be traced back to 996, King Stephen's
son, Prince Imre, was also educated here. Today, the grammar school
is one of the leading schools in the country. The grammar school
also has a vocational school of church music, and is joined by a
dormitory with about 300 places.
Social homes
The abbey
also maintains two social homes.
Farming
Abbey products
from Pannonhalma and Bakonybél at a Christmas market in Budapest
The best known herb is lavender, which grows on 5.5 acres of
plantation and from which lavender oil is produced in their own
plant.
Vinery
The Roman viticulture and wine culture,
which was completed centuries earlier, was revived in Transdanubia
by the settled Benedictine monks. The abbey had its own winery until
its nationalization after 1945. Renovating this tradition, after the
change of regime, a cellar and a wine house with an area of 2,000
m² were built, and in the autumn of 2003 the winery was restarted.
The grapes are grown on their own plantations. For this, on the
one hand, some of the former vineyards of the archabbey were bought
back, and on the other hand, new plantations were planted. The
Pannonhalma wine region is part of the Northern Transdanubia wine
region, where white grapes are traditionally planted.