Northern Great Plain Sights
Monuments
The twin-towered Baroque church
consecrated to the Archangel St Michael was built between 1731 and 1756 after
the first miracle of weeping.
One of the homes of the intellectual centres of Hungarian
Reformation, the college is an outstanding masterpiece of Classical
architecture.
Built between 1805 and 1820, the Classical-style Great Church is
the symbol of Debrecen and Hungarian Reformation. The dethronement of the
Habsburgs' was declared here on the 14th April 1849. Building work started under the supervision of architect Mihály
Péchy, who also designed the Reformed College here, but was
subsequently assumed by József Tallherr.
Built between 1488 and 1511, this single-aisled church with its tracery windows and net vault is one of the most beautiful Gothic heritage buildings in Hungary.
Commissioned by István Báthori as a patronage and parish church, as well as a family burial site, it has been a Reformed church from the 16th century onwards. The great mass of the edifice is strengthened by buttresses all around. Tall and narrow late-Gothic tracery windows between the buttresses adorn the south wall. The south porch is one of the most attractive examples of 15th-16th-century Renaissance archit
The neo-Baroque university building was constructed between 1927
and 1930. Monumental yet intimate, the French-style landscaped park in front of
it is the most attractive of its kind in town.
