Premontrean monastery

The Jesuit Premontrean church was joined to the Premontrean convent and high school. The convent was once a royal house (domusregia), and from 1554 it was the seat of the captains-general of Upper Hungary. István Bocskay, Gábor Bethlen and György I. Rákóczy also lived with its royal court. Then it became a Jesuit school, and from 1657 the university founded by the bishop of Eger Benedek Kisdy and the provost of Jászó operated within its walls, which was run by the Jesuits along with its printing house. From 1776 this educational institution became a branch of the University of Buda under the name of the Royal Academy (AcademiaRegia), with faculties of law and humanities. During the Bach era it was downgraded to a law academy, and remained so until 1921, when Czechoslovakia no longer claimed this institution. ; ; In 1787, when the poet and priest teacher Dávid Baróti Szabó, who lived here, was visited by Ferenc Kazinczy and János Batsányi, the idea of forming the Hungarian Society of Košice popped into their heads. The fruit of their cooperation was that a year later they launched the first Hungarian-language literary magazine, the Magyar Museum (1788-1792). ; There are four Hungarian-related memorial plaques on the front wall of the convent: ; - One commemorates the university, which was also confirmed by the golden bull of Leopold I. The work of Alfonz Groma and P. Merjavý was unveiled in 1978. ; - The bronze relief of Ottó Szabó, which commemorates three priests who were martyred in 1619 as a result of religious unrest and have since been canonized, was placed here in 1995, during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Košice. ; - The Csemadok commemorated the poet and priest teacher Dávid Szabó Baróti with the György Bartusz memorial plaque, which was inaugurated in 1995. ; - In 2004, the memorial plaque of István Bocskai was also placed on the wall of the building. The relief created by the sculptor Lajos Győrfi was unveiled as part of the Košice conference organized on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Bocskai Uprising. ; ; The Consulate General of the Republic of Hungary has been operating in the convent since 2000.