Középkori stílusok megjelenése a 19. századi építészeti gondolkodásban

In 19th­century Europe, especially Central Europe, the mediaeval, first of all Gothic style was thought to be most appropriate for sacral buildings. From the onset of the century, this association brought to life a growing literature and its theoretical background. The Gothic revival initiated in England in the late 18th–early 19th century was a trend in taste. German speaking areas also witnessed a parallel spread of admiration for the Gothic first by literary people too, and not by architects. Neogothic as an architectural style grew into an evermore complex system on the continent. Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Berlin school, then Heinrich Hübsch from Karlsruhe became the most often cited leaders of architectural theory before the appearance of the Viennese Dombaumeister, Friedrich von Schmidt. He and his pupils are the paragons of Neo­Gothic: they had a lion’s share of Hungarian sacral constructions and monument restoration in the second half of the 19th century– suffice it to mention Frigyes Schulek and Imre Steindl. The study reviews the theories in the architectural discourse about the use of mediaeval architecture in historicism in the period of one hundred years or so, from Béla Ney to István Medgyaszay, although it is not known exactly how extensive an influence the 19th century foreign theoreticians exerted with their architectural theories, aesthetics and philosophy on Hungarian architects