Coronation Church
You’ve probably heard this church called Kecske templom—“Goat Church”—and there’s a good reason. The Nagyboldogasszony-templom, also known as the Bencés templom (German: Benediktinerkirche), is a Gothic church built in the 13th and 14th centuries and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. What makes it so Sopron-specific is that towering story attached to the building: the church’s 47-metre-high tower carries a goat in its Gothic ornamentation. That goat traces back to Geisel Henrik—the local legend links his Geiss family name (“goat” in German) and even his request for forgiveness after he killed Büki János, another Sopron resident. Inside, the timeline gets even more interesting: the vault and the organ gallery were built in the mid-15th century, while the furnishings are Baroque. …
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