Castle Church - Sarospatak

The Catholic castle church, which is one of the greatest Gothic hall churches of Northern Hungary and dates from the last years of the 15th century, stands in this square.
Sarospatak has even given Hungary and the whole Christian world a Catholic saint. In 1207 Saint Erzsebet (Elisabeth) of the Arpad House, daughter of King Endre the 2nd was born here. On the square named after her, there is a sculpture group reminding us that Erzsébet, who was married off and lived in Turing, made the long journey between Sarospatak and Wartburg several times on horseback.
Over the centuries it was enlarged and gained a Baroque arch, choir and tower in the 18th century. On its south side, the sign on the face-work indicates the place where the foundation of the 11th century rotunda was discovered, which had a wall 7 metres in diameter.