Kassa - Óváros

Premontrei Holy Trinity Church

Building, structure

The site of today's church and convent was the site of the Royal House (Curia Regia) in the 15th century, and was occupied by King Matthias Hunyadi in 1460 and 1478, and King John of Szapolyai in 1528. From 1554, it was the house of the captains-general of Upper Hungary, the seat... Read More

Corps Command

Building, structure

Košice, as one of the most important cities in Upper Hungary, has had great military significance for centuries. This central character was particularly strengthened in the second half of the 16th century, when the Chamber of Spiš, which governed the region, and the Captain Gener... Read More

Orbán Tower Bell

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The city's former largest bell, after the fire of 1556, was cast in 1557 under the leadership of master Ferenc Illenfeld from the bells of the St. Elisabeth Cathedral that had melted in the fire. According to legend, its sound was so beautiful because the souls of the monks who b... Read More

Archbishop's Palace

Building, structure

The Bishopric of Košice was founded by King Francis I, with papal approval, in 1804. Its territory was carved out of the former Abaúj, Zemplén and Sáros counties, from the territory of the Bishopric of Eger. Its cathedral became the Košice Cathedral. In 1995, Pope John Paul II, d... Read More

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

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