Church of the Annunciation in Türje, Medieval monastery in Türje, Hungary

The Church of the Annunciation in Türje is a three-nave late Romanesque basilica of brick, about 22 m long and 12 m wide, built around 1230 under a French master. Its west front is a westwork raised between two towers, with Gothic touches in the towers and the window rose; the interior is supported by two pairs of octagonal pillars.

The monastery was founded in the Middle Ages and served the Premonstratensian Order as a base for their spiritual work in the region. After centuries of use, its function as an active monastic community ended in the mid-20th century.

The village and monastery take their name from Türje; the Premonstratensians settled here again from 1720, and the monastery belonged to the abbey of Csorna from 1741 to 1786 and again from 1802. The church is dedicated to the Annunciation, and its main altarpiece of that subject, painted by Stephan Dorfmeister in 1762/63, now hangs in the museum in Szombathely; a copy is in the church.

The church stands on a small hill in Türje, with the former monastery wing attached to its south side and the baroque Saint Anne chapel on the north. The interior is entered from the west; the 1478 stone tabernacle with its wrought-iron gate is on the south wall. The monastic buildings now house a care home, so visit the church itself.

The south wall holds a 1990s discovery: a medieval fresco cycle of the Legend of Saint Ladislaus. Such cycles survive in only a few places in present-day Hungary, among them Tereske, Ócsa and Vizsoly. The church also keeps a stone tabernacle with a wrought-iron gate dated 1478.