THE BOBÓFALVI CHURCH

The breathtaking late-Gothic church is located in the center of the village of Bobófalva, along Temető utca, opposite Saint Spiridion square. In the settlement, in the same place as today, as early as the XI. century: the Romanesque building with a simple design, one nave1040-60could have been built around during the reign of Péter Orseolo and Sámuel Aba. The construction probably started because of the church building law of St. István. The remains of walls found during the archaeological excavation allow us to conclude that the old church in Bobófalv had a very similar design to the church of King Szent István in Nagyvázsony. However, we don't know much about it, because its walls are mostly located below today's.

The church known today was built on its old site between 1466 and 1495 in the late Gothic style. The construction was led mainly by master builders from southern Germany, so the German-Gothic style can be observed on the outside and inside. Its floor plan is a three-nave, four-axis square with a straight sanctuary closure, its main entrance is located on the street facade, opposite the sanctuary, so the space is characterized by a strong longitudinal axis.

The two aisles are lower than the main nave, but the emporium strip bridging the difference in height is a windowless wall surface, as the church is covered by a gabled roof from the outside, so the church has a pseudo-basilica section. As a result, the roof of the main nave is unusually dark, which gives the building an eerie, mystical feeling. This is sufficiently offset by the light pouring in through the colored stained glass of the large ornate windows and the rose window. Instead of the more complicated net vaulting usual in German Gothic, the space covering of the naves is here, due to the smaller spaces, a cross vault with a pointed arch.

The church has a side tower, which does not fit into the axial system of the spatial organization, so two truncated tracts are formed in the right-hand side aisle with somewhat possible space coverage. The reason for this construction clumsiness is unknown, but it may be due to the lack of suitable subsoil. The tower rises above the roof ridge of the church. It contains the sacristy, the bell on the top, and the clockwork created later. At the top, four sides are also lined with double-glazed windows. The tower is closed by a complex dome, similar to a helmet with a winch, resulting from the intersection of gables. (Geometrically, it consists of the section of a low-height pyramid inscribed above the square of the tower's floor plan and a circle inscribed around the tower's floor-plan square, also forming an angle of 45° with the previous one, and the union of a smaller octagon-based, high-height pyramid together.)

The altar of the church was built in the 18th century. In the 19th century, it was decorated with baroque. The decoration of the church also reflects the baroque taste. A plaque placed at the altar of the church preserves thefamous virgin, Catholic martyr, Bód Iluskahis memory.