The effect of monks in the Hungarian Urban Design and Landscape Forming

Abstract

Hungary has a specific history. The monks were settled after the settlement of the Magyars in Hungary. The appearance of the new monks and the continuous proselytization were able to make the country become an elemental part of the Catholic Europe. Therefore the monks had a great role in the urban design and landscape forming. The orders can be divided into three groups based on the relations between the location, activity and landscape forming. In the first category there are those orders which were present in Hungary, but are not substantial in the landscape forming. In the second group there are those orders which settled in large free areas, had significant donations, their main activity was farming, so their impact on the landscape was outstanding. In the third group there are monks who settled in towns, built monasteries, so they had an important role in the formulation of the city structure. I am describing these orders in my essay

Keywords

• Monk, Landscape, Hungarian urban design