Vörösegyházi-kereszt - Vörös-köröszfa. A helynévi motiváció egy sajátos továbbélése
Megjelenés dátuma: 2009
Kulcsszó: helységnév
dűlőnév
templom neve
Tolna megye
Gyulaj
magyar
dűlőnév
templom neve
Tolna megye
Gyulaj
magyar
Abstract:
ANDRÁS K. NÉMETH, Vörösegyházi-kereszt ‘cross of the red church’–
Vörös-körösztfa ‘red cross’: A special case of surviving place-name motivation //
The geographical name Vörösegyház ‘red church’, the name of a field belonging to the village
of Gyulaj (Tolna county) indicates the actual place of the settlement in medieval times. The name
refers to a church building, whose brick walls, having been left bare, were red. Today there stands
a wooden cross in the field with a tin corpus painted red. The cross known as Vörös-keresztfa ‘red
cross’ appears already on a map prepared after 1860. Red crosses by the wayside were usually
named for the red paint used to protect their constructions; in this case, however, it was because of
the red walls of the church (which, as archaeological observations prove, stood only a couple of
meters from today’s cross) that the corpus (and previously perhaps the whole cross) had been
painted red.