Szent Mihály főangyal templom
You’re by the Szent Mihály főangyal templom—Sopron’s oldest parish church, dedicated to Archangel Michael. It was built in the 13th century, before the Mongol invasion (tatárjárás), when early medieval churches were often raised in cemeteries—and this one sits beside the Szent Mihály-temető, a burial ground already used in Roman times and continued through the Middle Ages. At first, the church was Romanesque, but the 15th century brought a transformation into Gothic architecture. Then after the 1728 Sopron fire, it underwent a Baroque rebuild—until Ferenc Storno later removed those Baroque features and reshaped it in a neo-Gothic direction. The big finishing chapter came in November 2020, when a restoration was completed for a church that’s more than 700 years old. …
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