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Jézus Szíve templom
Jézus Szíve templom, the Sacred Heart Church, adds a late-19th-century Catholic note to Kőszeg’s streetscape. Built between 1892 and 1894, it belongs to the Roman Catholic tradition and is also known in German as the Herz-Jesu-Kirche. The dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus places it within a devotion that became especially important across Central Europe in the 19th century, when churches like this often reflected both faith and community identity. In a town shaped by layers of Hungarian and German-speaking history, that bilingual name matters. It points to the way Kőszeg’s religious life has long crossed languages as well as generations. …
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