Arhitectura lemnului în arta eclesiastică a Banatului. Generalități
Wood Architecture in the Ecclesiastical Art of Banat. Generalities

Summary/Abstract: Banat, a territory at the crossroads of interests and disputes between East and West, today divided between Romania, Hungary, and Serbia, has often changed its rulers and with them, it has also, willingly or unwillingly, improved its architectural heritage. The architectural heritage that has survived to the present day is mostly the result of the last 300 years of Habsburg, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule. The vast majority of the surviving wooden churches in the Banat area are not used by the surrounding communities, serving at best as mortuary chapels in the village cemetery. Many of the churches in Banat have been moved several times. Some were sold off to poorer villages, and wall churches were built in their place. Often, they changed their place with the Austrian systematizations that reshaped the Banat countryside. In the process, many churches were abandoned or disappeared.

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