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The Church of the Assumption in Grad (Fels\u0151lendva) is one of the oldest church sites in Prekmurje: its parish is recorded as early as the beginning of the 13th century, and Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque and 20th-century layers meet within its walls. Standing at the foot of Slovenia's largest castle, the church is also a place of pilgrimage, with a statue of the Virgin carved around 1510 on its high altar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The castle of Grad \u2013 formerly Gornja Lendava, Fels\u0151lendva in Hungarian \u2013 appears in the sources in 1208, and by tradition a church of the Virgin already stood here then, as the centre of an extensive early parish. The oldest walls of the nave are dated to around 1275: the church was probably destroyed by the soldiers of King Ottokar II of Bohemia in the 1270s and its rebuilding may have begun then. In the 14th\u201315th centuries a spacious Gothic chancel reinforced with buttresses was added; the keystone of its vault bears the double-headed eagle of the Sz\u00e9chy family, the patrons, whose burial vault lies beneath the chancel and was rediscovered in 1980 during heating works.<\/p>\n

The Sz\u00e9chys sided with the Reformation in the 16th century, so that between 1592 and 1672 the parish of Grad was entirely Lutheran; the Catholics reorganised their parish only in 1660. The flat ceiling of the nave was replaced by a vault in 1660, a wooden tower was built in 1690, and in 1729 the present 35-metre bell tower was completed. The church was thoroughly renewed in 1781.<\/p>\n

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The Baroque high altar was made in 1778 in the workshop of the master Klein of Radkersburg (Regede); at its centre sits the enthroned Madonna and Child carved around 1510, a remnant of a late Gothic winged altarpiece whose painted and carved wings are now in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. Gilded statues of St John the Baptist and St Joseph stand on either side. In the 20th century the interior was renewed to designs by Jo\u017ee Ple\u010dnik: a new vault of ceramic tiles laid on timber supports, rising to the roof structure, was built over the nave, the floor level was raised, and a new gallery and wall lamps of local ceramics were made; the side altar was designed by Tone Bitenc after Ple\u010dnik's idea, and its painting of the Holy Family is by Stane Kregar.<\/p>\n

Mikl\u00f3s K\u00fczmics, a leading figure of 18th-century Catholic literature in the Slovene language, was baptised in this church, and the Croatian poet \u0160imun \u010cergi\u0107 served here as parish priest. The village's other great sight is Grad Castle, remodelled in the 17th\u201318th centuries into a pentagonal Baroque residence and the largest castle building in Slovenia.<\/p>\n

Pilgrimage feast:<\/strong> the church's titular feast is the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 15 August.<\/p>\n

Visiting:<\/strong> Grad lies about 20 km north-west of Murska Sobota, in the heart of the Gori\u010dko Nature Park; the church stands on the hill above the village next to the castle, and the two can be walked between in a few minutes. The castle now houses a museum and the park's visitor centre, so the church combines well with an excursion in the Gori\u010dko hills.<\/p>\n

Sources: Wikipedia \u2013 Fels\u0151lendva (Grad)<\/a> \u00b7 Wikipedia (Slovenian) \u2013 Cerkev Marijinega vnebovzetja, Grad<\/a> \u00b7 Wikipedia \u2013 Mikl\u00f3s K\u00fczmics<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Zeitblick \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a> \u00b7 Photo: J\u00e1nos Korom Dr. from Wien, Austria \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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