St. Ivan's Hill
This area was also a victim of the baroque-style building ordered by the
Esterházys. Ruined or just neglected houses were pulled down in order to
make room for the new buildings that were able to satisfy the demands of
the age as well as display the landowner's wealth. the question is unhistorical
yet inescapable: how would our town look like if St. Blaise's one-time
church stood on the main square? What emotions would it arouse in Tata's
inhabitants if the ruins of the one-time Benedictine monastery were put
on display, just as in Tata's French twintown Dammarie-les-Lys where one
can see the remains of their abbey? How would the former St. Ivan's Hill
look like with its three-aisled St. John's Church?
Let us to be unjust: the chapel built by Jakab Fellner is worthly crown
of the hill. In the end, not only the apse of the old church could endure
but a new value was born as well. However, the above question keeps arising:
what would a St. John's day be like at the foot of the old walls?
What would a "Midsummer's night" be like in Tata?.
