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Convict

Building, structure

The current building was once home to two medieval townhouses. The building of the church-run secondary educational institution (convict) was completed in 1657. As the inscription above the main entrance in the axis of the facade says, the institution for the education of young C... Read More

House of Captains-in-Chief

Building, structure

One of the public buildings of outstanding cultural and historical value on the main street of Košice of medieval origin may have previously been four stone Gothic town houses, which gradually merged: Our first data on it come from the 16th century. We know of a mint operating he... Read More

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God

Building, structure

The Greek Catholics in Hungary are concentrated in the northeastern part of the Carpathian Basin. However, in one of the most important cities of this region, Košice - although attempts have been made since the end of the 18th century - they did not manage to establish a church c... Read More

Franciscan Church and Monastery

Building, structure

In the eastern wall of the Main Square, in a closed row, on the corner of Ferences Street, stands the former Franciscan church and monastery, a significant building block dating from the end of the 14th century, originally built in the Gothic style, which was consecrated in one o... Read More

The Rodostoi House

Building, structure

The Rodostó House forms an organic whole with the Executioner's Bastion. The latter is one of the few points where the former medieval city wall of Košice can still be seen. In the courtyard of the bastion stands one half of the Rodostó House, in the original of which Ferenc Rákó... Read More

Rákóczi memorial plaque on the north wall of the cathedral

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

It was already a sign of the coming changes that on April 29, 1936, the Košice city council, at the suggestion of the II. Ferenc Rákóczi Equestrian Statue Foundation Memorial Committee, agreed to place a memorial plaque on the northern wall of the cathedral in memory of the princ... Read More

Statue of Ferenc II Rákoczi

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

In 2006, Košice finally got a statue of Rákóczi! The Hungarian state donated the work of sculptor Sándor Györfi to the city on the occasion of the 330th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc II Rákóczi and the 100th anniversary of his reburial in the Košice Cathedral. The only full-... Read More

Headstone erected in memory of Mary Ürge

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

In memory of the death of the teacher of the Hungarian school in the air in 1991, the headstone of the Transylvanian Szentegyháza people was placed in the school yard, next to the main entrance. ; ; Mária Ürge is a founding member and organizer of the Csalló Folk Art Ensemble, th... Read More

Abaúj-Torna County Headquarters

Building, structure

The representative Baroque palace, located in the eastern wall of the main square, in the immediate vicinity of the Cathedral of Saint Elizabeth, was built in an area formed by the unification of several medieval plots by the Abaúj County, or rather, by the Lord Lőrinc Orczy in 1... Read More

Memorial plaque to the Hungarian Jews transported to Auschwitz via Košice

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

On May 21, 2014, at 4 p.m., a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Košice State Scientific Library (ÁTK) building, commemorating the Hungarians transported to Auschwitz through Košice. ; Originally, it would have been unveiled at the railway station building, but an agreement coul... Read More