Kassa - Óváros

Miklós Prison

Building, structure

The one-story building of the Miklós Prison, located east of the main street, on the corner of Fazekas Street and Egyetem Street, parallel to the main square, near the Executioner's Bastion, was built in the first half of the 15th century, originally as two Gothic town houses. Ar... Read More

The Barkóczy Palace

Building, structure

A two-storey Baroque palace built in a closed row in the Western wall of the main square. The most decorative element of the five-axis facade, divided by very pronounced pilasters, is the stone-framed main gate, decorated with capitals carved from stone on both sides and held by ... Read More

Semsey House

Building, structure

In the northern part of Fő utca, on its western square wall, on the street front, in a closed row of buildings, this one-storey house was built at the end of the 17th century - on the site of an earlier house - in the Baroque style. From the mid-18th century it was owned by the C... Read More

Reformed church

Building, structure

The 16th century also brought the overwhelming victory of the Protestant (Lutheran and Reformed) faith in Košice, to the point that for a time even the famous cathedral fell into Protestant hands. Later, in the 17th century, the Reformed built their church on the corner of today'... Read More

Andrássy Palace

Building, structure

The present-day two-storey, spectacularly articulated roof, with a facade covered with plastic plaster decorations, standing on the street front, was the site of three town houses in the Middle Ages, which were rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 18th century. These houses came i... Read More

Imre Henszlmann's birthplace and memorial plaque

Building, structure

Henszlmann's ancestors came to Hungary from Württemberg at the beginning of the 16th century. One branch of the family settled in Bártfa, while the other branch chose Košice as their place of residence. His father was an ironmonger and general merchant, and his shop was in the ho... Read More

St. Urban Tower

Building, structure

In 1556, a huge fire devastated the city, in which the city almost completely burned down, along with its churches and buildings. The cathedral bell also melted in the fire. A year later, the city decided to cast a new bell from the molten ore as a reminder of the tragedy, and th... Read More

Immaculata Column and Sculpture Group

Sacral small monument

It is well known that the plague epidemic of 1709-10 devastated Hungary. As a result, votive plague columns were erected throughout the country. This was also the case in Košice. The terrible "guga-death" arrived in the city of five thousand inhabitants in the summer of 1709, des... Read More

James' Palace

Building, structure

The construction contractors, the Jakab brothers, Árpád and Géza, built it as their own house in 1899 on the land inherited from their father, outside the former city wall, on the banks of the Malomárok River. The family is not considered one of the prominent architects of the ti... Read More

St. Michael's Chapel

Building, structure

The building located south of the cathedral was once a cemetery chapel. Its lower part, the current crypt, was built at the end of the 13th century, while the upper part was built between 1360 and 1380. At the end of the 15th century, at the initiative of György Szahtmáry, born i... Read More