The Capuchins
It
is a modest building in Országgyűlés Square, hardly bigger than a burgher's
house in a main street. It was not built on a hill, it does not have sky-high
towers, the traffic. It is built together with a similarly plain monastery
with tiny windows and well-shaped chimneys.
It has been standing here for 250 years, it is since then, that the brown
gowned Capuchin Fathers and Brothers of the youngest Franciscan order have
been living here - except for some long and short intersmissions that were
forced on them.
It was not designed by a Pilgram, nor by a Fischer von Erlach or any other
renowned architect, what was built in Tóváros by Brother Bertholdus, the
order's architect and Jakab Kuttner, who specialized in military buildings
is only the reproduction of the province's church. Kuttner's former master,
who worked as his foreman in Tata, was succeeded by Jakab Fellner. He remained
in Tata for the rest of his life and was entrusted with important tasks,
which determined the town's appearance.
The names and forms are modest, just like those 250 years, but they are
important influences in Tata.
