Andocs

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Field	Value
official_name	Andocs
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Andocs church full.jpg
image_caption	Assumption of Mary Church in Andocs
image_shield	HUN Andocs COA.svg
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Southern Transdanubia
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Somogy
subdivision_type3	District
subdivision_name3	Tab
subdivision_type4	RC Diocese
subdivision_name4	Kaposvár
area_total_km2	43.27
population_total	1062
population_as_of	2017
population_density_km2	auto
population_demonym	andocsi
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	8675
area_code	(+36) 84
blank4_name_sec1	NUTS 3 code
blank4_info_sec1	HU232
blank5_name_sec2	MP
blank5_info_sec2	Mihály Witzmann (Fidesz)
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Andocs is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. An impoverished village in a largely rural area, though it has a venerable history and is a well-known site of pilgrimage.{{cite web | title = Andocs (The County of Somogy) | work = National and Historical Symbols of Hungary | publisher = Prime Minister's Office, Hungarian Government | url = http://www.nemzetijelkepek.hu/onkormanyzat-andocs_en.shtml | access-date = 2008-12-01}}

The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region.

History

Already mentioned in the 1332-37 papal tithe records is a parish in the village. During the Turkish occupation, the Jesuit All Saints' church (also known as the church of Our Lady, "Nagyboldogasszony") and the parish were forsaken, and all that remained intact was the statue of the Virgin Mary. This was recognized as a miraculous preservation by the Jesuit priest Miklós Horváth, who developed Andocs into a place of pilgrimage between 1665 and 1681. Originally Gothic, the church was expanded with a Baroque nave in the 18th century.

In the 17th century already several miraculous incidents involving the "Mary of Andocs" were recorded; to this day, the statue is dressed every second Friday of the month. Many of the donated cloaks, following the 1747 example of Countess Katalin Széchenyi, are on display in the "Museum of the Cloaks."{{cite web |title = Museum of the Cloaks of the Virgin Mary (Mária-ruhák Múzeuma), Andocs |publisher = Vendegvaro: Hungary Starts Here |date = 2000–2007 |url = http://hungarystartshere.com/Museum-of-the-Cloaks-of-the-Virgin-Mary-Maria-ruhak-Muzeuma-Andocs |access-date = 2008-12-01 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722074653/http://hungarystartshere.com/Museum-of-the-Cloaks-of-the-Virgin-Mary-Maria-ruhak-Muzeuma-Andocs |archive-date = 2011-07-22 |url-status = dead

A Franciscan monastery was built in 1721 but burned down a few years later, though the Gothic chapel next to it survived intact. This was another miraculous phenomenon and the chapel became the sanctuary of the current church, which was extended with a Baroque nave and consecrated in 1747, the occasion of Countess Széchenyi's donation.{{cite web |title = Andocs, Franciscan Friary |publisher = kolostorok.hu, Ministry of Cultural Heritage (Hungary) |url = http://www.kolostorut.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=83&lang=iso-8859-1 |access-date = 2008-12-01 |last=Draper |first=Phil |title=Some Abbeys and Pilgrimage Churches in Western Hungary |date=2001-09-28 |url=http://www.churchcrawler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/hungary/abbeys.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031123164338/http://www.churchcrawler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/hungary/abbeys.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-11-23 |access-date=2008-12-01

The chapel and the church have been a pilgrimage place for over almost four centuries. The parish feast is held on 15 August, the Feast of the Assumption; nine other feasts attract pilgrims to the village.{{cite web |title = Roman Catholic church of Our Lady (Nagyboldogasszony), Andocs |publisher = Vendegvaro: Hungary Starts Here |date = 2000–2007 |url = http://hungarystartshere.com/Roman-Catholic-church-of-Our-Lady-Nagyboldogasszony-Andocs |access-date = 2008-12-01 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722074719/http://hungarystartshere.com/Roman-Catholic-church-of-Our-Lady-Nagyboldogasszony-Andocs |archive-date = 2011-07-22 |url-status = dead

According to László Szita the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century.

Gallery

File:Andocs war memorial.jpg|War memorial File:Andocs Holy Trinity column.jpg|Holy Trinity column File:Andocs church procession flags.jpg|Museum of the Cloaks

References

[http://www.ksh.hu/apps/hntr.telepules?p_lang=EN&p_id=28714 Andocs, KSH]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160410182214/http://www.delbalatonibor.hu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/HK-Tan%C3%A1cs-Alapszab%C3%A1ly.pdf A Balatonboglári borvidék hegyközségi tanácsának alapszabálya (PDF)]
[https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SOMM_SomAlm_052/?pg=10&layout=s&query=korpád László Szita : Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)]

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