Velemér

Velemér
Coat of arms
Velemér Location of Velemér in Hungary
Coordinates: 46°44′15.83″N 16°22′40.08″E
Country	Hungary
Region	Western Transdanubia
County	Vas
Subregion	Őriszentpéteri
Rank	Village
Area
• Total	9.55 km2 (3.69 sq mi)
Population  (1 January 2008)
• Total	89
• Density	9.3/km2 (24/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	9946
Area code	+36 94
KSH code	18430
Website	www.velemer.hu

Velemér (Slovene: Velemer) is a village in Vas county, Hungary.

Parochial church

Old mural painting in the Velemér church: the artist was Johannes Aquila. Detail from the cover of the field work book about this landscape.

The parochial church is located in the forest at the end of the village. Its murals of late Árpád-age was painted by Aquila János. It was destroyed by fire in the late 19th century. Earlier it was measured and described by Rómer Flóris, member of the Hungarian Academy of Science. The artist also painted Nagytótlak rotunda in this region.

Gallery

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Sources

• Genthon István: Magyarország műemlékei. I. Dunántúl. Budapest, 1959. 444 p.
• Gerevich Tibor: Magyarország románkori emlékei. (Die romanische Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest, 1938. 843 p.
• Dercsényi Dezsõ: Árpád-kori műemlékeink Vas megyében. (Vas County Heritage from the Árpád age). Vasi Szemle 1959. 2. sz., 57–67. p.
• Magyarország, Panoráma, Budapest, 1980.
• Aerial photographs of Velemér