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Kassa
Košice
Kassa
Hungarian:
Kassa
Slovak:
Košice
German:
Kaschau
Latin:
Cassovia, Cassoviae
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Historical Hungarian county:
Abaúj-Torna
Country:
Slovakia
District:
Košický kraj
River:
Hernád
Altitude:
208 m
GPS coordinates:
48.720543, 21.258099
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Population
Population:
241k
Hungarian:
2.65%
Population in 1910
| Total | 44200 |
|---|---|
| Hungarian | 75.4% |
| German | 7.2% |
| Slovak | 14.8% |
King Béla IV of Hungary invited German settlers after the small Hungarian settlement was destroyed in the Mongol Invasion. In the Battle of Rozgony in 1312 the burghers of Kassa helped King Charles I of Hungary to victory over the united army of the Aba family and Csák Máté, because previously the king protected the town from the tyranny of the oligarchs. The construction of the Gothic cathedral dedicated to St. Elisabeth of Hungary started in 1374. In 1412 the Pentapolitana, the alliance of the five most important free royal towns of northern Hungary, was created with the leadership of Kassa. During the reign of King Matthias of Hungary, Kassa was one of the largest European towns with its population of 10 thousand. During the 17th century Kassa was the center of the Hungarian uprisings against the Habsburg emperor and also the starting point of the campaigns of the Hungarian princes of Transylvania against Vienna within the Kingdom of Hungary. It was also the center of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1703 and 1711 led by Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II. The remains of the prince and his companions in exile, brought home from Rodosto (Turkey) in 1906, were placed in the crypt of the St. Elisabeth Cathedral. In 1918 the Czechoslovak army invaded the predominantly Hungarian town, tore down the memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence and fired at the peacefully protesting crowd. Afterwards Kassa was attached to the newly created Czechoslovakia. In 1945 the Czechoslovak president Benes announced his decrees on the persecution and the deprivation of properties of the Hungarian and German people from the balcony of the seat of the former Abaúj-Torna County, as a result of which there are hardly any Hungarians left in the town.
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895
Arrival of the Hungarians
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895
The alliance of the seven Hungarian tribes took possession of the then largely uninhabited Carpathian Basin. Until then, the sparse Slavic population of the north-western Carpathians had lived under Moravian rule for a few decades after the collapse of the Avar Khaganate in the early 9th century.
1000
Foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom
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1000
The Kingdom of Hungary was established with the coronation of King Stephen I. He converted the Hungarians to Christianity and created two archdioceses (Esztergom and Kalocsa) and ten dioceses. He divided Hungary into counties led by ispáns, who were appointed by the king.
1230
It was mentioned for the first time.
1241-1242
Mongol Invasion
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1241-1242
The hordes of the Mongol Empire invaded Hungary and almost completely destroyed it. One third to one half of the population was destroyed. The Mongols also suffered heavy losses in the battle of Muhi and they could not hunt down the king. After their withdrawal, King Béla IV reorganized Hungary. He allowed the feudal lords to build stone castles because they were able to successfully resist the nomadic Mongols. The vast majority of stone castles were built after this. The king called in German, Vlach (Romanian) and Slavic settlers to replace the destroyed population.
after 1242
During the Mongol invasion the small Hungarian settlement was destroyed. Afterwards King Béla IV of Hungary invited German settlers to the area.
1301
The extinction of the House of Árpád
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1301
The House of Árpád, the first Hungarian royal dynasty, died out with the death of King Andrew III. Hungary was ruled by oligarchs, the most powerful of whom was Csák Máté, whose main ally was the Aba family. King Charles I (1308-1342), supported by the Pope, eventually emerged as the most prominent of the contenders for the Hungarian throne. But it took decades to break the power of the oligarchs.
September 1311
The oligarch Aba Amádé wanted to take over Kassa. He arrived in the town with his sons and followers. A mass brawl broke out and the citizens killed the oligarch and captured and imprisoned his sons, János and Demeter.
October 3, 1311
The king, Charles I of Hungary supported the town and the sons of Amádé had to promise not to bother Kassa and to return the arbitrarily occupied royal properties (including the counties of Abaúj and Zemplén). But after they were released, the sons swore loyalty to the mightiest oligarch, Csák Máté instead.
June 12, 1312
The battle of Rozgony. The united armies of the Abas and Csák Máté besieged Kassa. Görgey István convinced the Saxons of Szepes to join the king. The army of the oligarchs abandoned the siege and took position on a nearby hill. The king attacked and won with the help of the citizens of Kassa, who joined the battle in a crutial moment.
around 1341
The Gothic chapel of St. Michael south of the dome was built as a funerary chapel.
1342
The town was put under the jurisdiction of the Master of Treasury, together with the towns of Buda, Pest, Bártfa, Eperjes, Nagyszombat, Pozsony és Sopron. They could appeal to the court of the Master of Treasury in civil affairs. This jurisdiction was abolished in 1848, by that time it included 28 towns.
1347
Kassa became a free royal town thanks to King Louis I of Hungary.
1374
The country assembly in Kassa acknowledged the inheritance of the throne by the king's daughter.
1374-1520
The construction of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth. King Sigismund and King Matthias supported it financially. The southern tower was left unfinished. The most important architect was Kassai István.
1412
The 5 most important free royal towns made an alliance under the name Pentapolitana, these were: Kassa, Eperjes, Lőcse, Kisszeben, Bártfa. The purpose of the alliance was to regulate trade. The leading town was Kassa.
1440
After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ulászló to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for László, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title "Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa", and gave him the castle of Zólyom.
1440-1441
The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary, including Kassa. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).
1441
Ulászló I of Hungary supported also by Hunyadi János tried to liberate Kassa from Jiskra in vain.
1449
Hunyadi János sent Székely Tamás against Jiskra, whose army was crushed in an ambush by Jiskra on the 5th of September under Kassa. Jiskra built a new fortress, named Szepsi, 22 kilometers southwest of Kassa. Hunyady János besieged and captured the fortress. Soon Polish emissaries arrived and mediated a peace between the enemies.
1452
The Diet (Parliament) in Pozsony put Kassa, Lőcse and Bártfa under the protection of Cillei Ulrik, the great rival of Hunyadi János. The prelude of this was that Hunyadi János led a successful campaign at the end of 1451 against the Hussites.
1453
Captain in Chief Hunyadi János crushed the army of Talafus, a Hussite commander under Jiskra, outside the walls of Lőcse. The Parliament of Hungary paid a ransom for the castles and towns still in Jiskra's hands, afterwards Jiskra left the country. But Jiskra's commanders continued to plunder Hungary. Kassa's Slavic name, "Kossicze", Košice comes from the time of the Hussite marauders. Many Rusin and Polish shepherds came to settle in the neighborhood these days.
1455
Baron Cillei Ulrik, the rival of Hunyadi János called in Jiskra again, and soon much of northern Hungary fell in his hands.
1462
At the end of the war that King Matthias of Hungary had waged against the Hussites since 1458, Jiskra swore loyalty to the king and handed over the castles he still held. Afterwards Jiskra fought in the service of King Matthias until his death.
1458-1490
The reign of Matthias Corvinus. Kassa, with its 10 thousand inhabitants was among the largest towns of Europe.
1491
After the death of King Matthias, Prince Albert of Poland held Kassa under siege for half a year without success. Albert advanced to the field of Rákos near Pest to take the throne of Hungary from his brother Ulászló II. But the armies of Kinizsi Pál and Báthory István beat him out of the country, and he had to resign from his demand for compensation.
1526
Battle of Mohács and the splitting of Hungary into two parts
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1526
Sultan Suleiman I launched a war against Vienna, instigated by the French. Ferdinand I, Duke of Austria, was the brother-in-law of King Louis II of Hungary. The army of the Ottoman Empire defeated the much smaller Hungarian army at Mohács, and King Louis II died in the battle. A group of the barons elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the throne, who promised to defend Hungary from the Turks. He was the younger brother of the most powerful European monarch Emperor Charles V. But the nobility chose the most powerful Hungarian baron, Szapolyai János, who was also crowned as King John I. The country was split in two and a decades-long struggle for power began.
1527
Kassa was occupied by King Ferdinand I from King Szapolyai János.
December 4, 1536
Szapolyai János captured Kassa.
1541
The Turkish occupation of the capital, Buda, and the division of Hungary into three parts
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1541
The Turks conquered Buda, the capital of Hungary, after the death of King John I. The central part of the country was under Turkish rule for 150 years. The western and northern parts (including present-day Slovakia) formed the Kingdom of Hungary ruled by the Habsburg emperors. The eastern parts (now mainly under Romanian rule) were ruled by the successors of King John I of Hungary, who later established the Principality of Transylvania.
1551
Ferdinand took Kassa from Szapolyai János.
1556
A fire devastated the town, the Dome of St. Elisabeth also burned down.
1570
The establishment of the Principality of Transylvania
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1570
John II (John Sigismund), the son of King John I of Hungary, renounced the title of King of Hungary in favor of King Maximilian of the House of Habsburg, and henceforth held the title of Prince. This formally created the Principality of Transylvania, which was the eastern half of Hungary not ruled by the Habsburgs and was also a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. John II died in 1571, after which the three nations of Transylvania (the Hungarian nobility, the Székelys and the Saxons) elected the prince.
1596-1700
The town became the seat of the Bishopric of Eger, after Eger was occupied by the Ottomans.
1604-1606
Uprising of Bocskai István
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1604-1606
The alliance of the Habsburgs and the Principality of Transylvania was defeated by the Ottoman Empire in the Fifteen Years' War. The war devastated Transylvania, which was occupied by the Habsburg imperial army, and General Basta introduced a reign of terror. The nobility and the burghers were upset about the terror, the plundering mercenaries and the violent Counter-Reformation. Bocskai István decided to lead their uprising after the Habsburg emperor tried to confiscate his estates. Bocskai also rallied the hajdú warriors to his side. He was elected Prince of Transylvania and soon liberated the Kingdom of Hungary from the Habsburgs. In 1605 Bocskai István was crowned King of Hungary with the crown he received from the Turks.
November 11, 1604
Bocskai István marched in to Kassa.
November 12, 1604
Bocskai István called for the nobility to join the uprising in a manifesto from Kassa. The oppressed peasants and the citizens, fed up with the lootings of the mercenaries and the Counter-Reformation, the nobility and many barons (most of them Protestants) answered the call.
December 3, 1604
The Imperial General Basta held Kassa under siege for three days in vain.
November 20, 1604
Bethlen Gábor arrived in Kassa with the symbols of rule sent by the Sultan (caftan, hat, banner, mace) to Bocskai István.
23 June 1606
Peace of Vienna
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23 June 1606
Bocski István made peace with Emperor Rudolf. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and the freedom of religion. The counties of Szatmár, Bereg and Ugocsa were annexed to the Principality of Transylvania. Bocskai died of illness in the same year, leaving to his successors the idea of unifying Hungary from Transylvania.
June 23, 1606
The Peace of Vienna ended the Bocskai uprising. Kassa returned under Habsburg rule. The treaty secured the fundamental rights of the Estates of Hungary and the religious freedom. Szatmár, Bereg and Ugocsa counties were attached to the Principality of Transylvania.
December 29, 1606
Bocskai István, Prince of Transylvania died in Kassa of edema. In his political testimony he stood for the maintenance of the independent Transylvania, as it was the fundament of the future unification of Hungary between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires.
1619
The campaign of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1619
At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania went to war against the Habsburg emperor as an ally of the rebelling Czech-Moravian-Austrian estates. The whole Kingdom of Hungary joined him, only the Austrian defenders of Pozsony had to be put to the sword. With his allies, he laid siege to Vienna. However, he was forced to abandon the siege because the Habsburg-loyal Hungarian aristocrat Homonnai Drugeth György attacked his heartland with Polish mercenaries. On 25 August 1620, the Diet of Besztercebánya elected Bethlen Gábor King of Hungary as vassal of the Turks. He continued to fight after the defeat of the Czechs at White Mountain on 8 November 1620, but without real chance to achieve decisive victory, he decided to come to an agreement with Emperor Ferdinand II.
September 5, 1619
Kassa opened its gates for the army of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania. Bethlen announced to go to war in his manifesto from Debrecen. He tried to convince the Estates of Hungary to join him against the Habsburg Emperor with a success.
September 20, 1619
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania marched into Kassa.
November 30, 1619
The Habsburg-friendly Homonnay Drugeth György attacked the heartland of Bethlen with Polish mercenaries, while the Prince was besieging Vienna. Homonnay told Kassa to surrender, but the town rejected. After having been defeated, Homonnay left the country in the middle of December.
May 8, 1621
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania returned to Kassa, because of the Imperial counter-offensive and the betrayals.
31 December 1621
Peace of Nikolsburg
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31 December 1621
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand II. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and later it was supplemented with the freedom of religion. Bethlen renounced the title of King of Hungary in exchange for seven counties of the Upper Tisza region (Szabolcs, Szatmár, Bereg, Ugocsa, Zemplén, Borsod, Abaúj) for the rest of his life, other estates in Hungary as his private property and the imperial title of Duke of Oppeln and Ratibor (Opole and Racibórz), one of the Duchies of Silesia. Prince Bethlen went to war against the Habsburgs in 1623 and 1626, but was unable to negotiate more favourable terms.
1621
The Peace of Nikolsburg. The Emperor restored the religious freedom. 7 Hungarian counties were attached to the Principality of Transylvania, including Kassa (in Abaúj County).
September 10, 1623
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania called the Estates of the seven counties to Kassa, to ask them for military supplies.
March 1, 1626
The wedding of Bethlen Gábor and Catherine of Brandenburg was held in Kassa in the Lőcse-house built in the 14th century. Originally it was the house of Szathmáry György, but in 1542 Thurzó Elek left it in his will to the town of Lőcse, and afterwards it was used to host merchants.
1629
The death of Bethlen Gábor. Kassa returned under Habsburg rule soon after.
1644-1645
The campaign of Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1644-1645
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania allied with the Swedes and the French in the Thirty Years' War and went to war against the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III. On 18 July 1645 his army joined forces with Torstenson's Swedish army under Brno (Moravia). The excellent artillery of Transylvania opened fire on the city walls. However, Rákóczi had to give up the siege, having been informed that the Turks were planning a punitive campaign against Transylvania, because he went to war against the Sultan's prohibition.
March 12, 1644
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania solemnly marched into Kassa. Afterwards his army advanced to the valley of Vág.
May 1644
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania retreated from the Vág River to the line of the Tisza River before the advancing Imperial army. He sent significant reinforcements to the defense of the towns of Kassa, Eperjes, Tokaj and Sárospatak.
June, 1644
The counter-attacking Imperial forces reached Kassa, weakened by the organized resistance of the peasantry. The defenders of the town attacked them so they got between hell and high water. The Imperials burned villages as revenge.
June 14, 1644
The defenders of Kassa charged at the ramparts of the Imperials.
June 16, 1644
Upon the arrival of the Transylvanian army of Kemény János the Imperials retreated.
January 18, 1644
In Kassa Rákóczi György I was declared Prince of Hungary by the country assembly. He then joined the Swedish army besieging Brno, but the Sultan forbade him to continue his campaign against the Habsburgs.
Easter 1644
Prince Rákóczi György of Hungary founded the Lutheran Church in the Protestant town of Kassa.
16 December 1645
Peace of Linz
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16 December 1645
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand III. It secured the freedom of religion for the Protestants and extended it also to the serfs. Rákóczi received the same seven Hungarian counties that Prince Bethlen Gábor had also held (Abauj, Zemplén, Borsod, Bereg, Ugocsa, Szabolcs, Szatmár) until his death, and the counties of Szabolcs and Szatmár were also to be inherited by his sons. The Rákóczi family also received several new estates.
December 16, 1645
In the Peace of Linz Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania gained the ownership of Abaúj County and Kassa until his death.
1647
Kassa became the permanent seat of Abaúj County.
1648
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania died, Kassa returned to the Emperor.
1657
Kisdy Benedek, the Bishop of Eger and Provost of Jászó founded a Jesuit college and a printing press. The university was expelled by the Czechoslovaks in 1921.
1664
Victory over the Turks at Szentgotthárd and the shameful Peace of Vasvár
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1664
The imperial army achieved a significant victory over the Turks at the battle of Szentgotthárd. Despite this, Emperor Leopold I concluded a 20-year peace treaty with the Turks at Vasvár on terms that made it look as if the Turks had won. This caused a huge outcry in Europe and among the Hungarian nobility, who expected the country to be liberated after the victory. The formerly Habsburg-loyal Catholic Hungarian barons began to plot against the Emperor with the leadership of Wesselényi Ferenc. In 1668, at the end of the Franco-Spanish War, King Louis XIV of France withdrew his support for the conspiracy, and the support of the Turks was not obtained.
1670-76
The Imperials built a citadel south of the town.
1671
Exposure of the Wesselényi conspiracy
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1671
After the exposure of the anti-Hapsburg Wesselényi conspiracy, the main organisers, Zrínyi Péter, Nádasdy Ferenc and Frangepán Ferenc were executed. Wesselényi Ferenc died in 1667. The Croatian uprising, which was part of the conspiracy, was crushed by the Habsburgs in 1670.
1671
The once Jesuit, now Norbertine Trinity church was built by Emperor Leopold I from the money Báthory Zsófia paid for the life of his son, Rákóczi Ferenc I, after the anti-Habsburg Wesselényi-conspiracy was revealed.
after 1671
Kuruc Movement
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after 1671
Many noble, burgher and preacher fled to the Principality of Transylvania and the territory under Turkish occupation from the reprisals after the exposure of the anti-Habsburg Wesselényi-conspiracy and from the violent Counter-Reformation. They were joined by dismissed Hungarian soldiers of the Turkish border forts, who were replaced by German mercenaries. They were called the fugitives (bujdosók). They started an armed movement against the Habsburg rule. Because of the Turkish ban, the Principality of Transylvania could not openly support them. From 1677, the French supported their cause with money and Polish mercenaries. They achieved their first serious success when they temporarily occupied the mining towns of northern Hungary (now central Slovakia) under the command of Thököly lmre. He then became the sole leader of the movement. In 1679, the French made peace with Emperor Leopold I and withdrew their support for the fugitives. Between 1678 and 1681 Thököly Imre led successful raids against the Habsburgs and their supporters in the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary. The insurgents were called kurucs.
September 14,1672
The fugitives (under the command of Petrőczy István, Szepessy Pál and Szuhay Mátyás) defeated the Imperial army of Spankau south of Kassa.
October 1672.
The hajdú soldiers accepted the mercy of the Emperor, and the thus diminished army of the fugitives suffered a decisive defeat from the unified armies of Spankau and Cobb at Györke, east of Kassa.
1682
Thököly Imre, Prince of Upper Hungary
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1682
Thököly Imre, the leader of the kuruc insurgents, gained the support of the Turks. He launched a campaign against the Habsburgs in the Kingdom of Hungary. With the support of the Turkish army, he occupied the town of Kassa and also the important stronghold of Fülek. He was then recognized by the Turks as King of Hungary, but he chose the title of Prince of Upper Hungary.
July 20, 1682
The kuruc army captured the citadel of Kassa in a one-hour fight with a sudden attack. Thököly Imre and his kuruc army rushed to lay siege to Kassa.
August 14, 1682
When the allied Turkish army of 30 thousand soldiers arrived, Kassa surrendered to Thököly Imre.
January 11, 1683
Thököly Imre called for a country assembly in Kassa. He offered peace to Emperor Leopold I. He demanded the 13 counties that were already under his command, and the title of "Prince of the Parts of Hungary". In exchange he promised to be loyal to the Emperor and join him against the Ottomans. He was rejected.
1683
Turkish defeat at Vienna and the formation of the Holy League
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1683
The combined armies of the Habsburg Empire and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the Turkish army besieging Vienna. Emperor Leopold I wanted to make peace with the Turks, but was refused by Sultan Mehmed IV. In 1684, at the persistent urging of Pope Innocent XI, the Holy League, an alliance of the Kingdom of Poland, the Habsburg Empire, the Republic of Venice and the Papal States, was formed to expel the Turks from Hungary. Thököly Imre, who had allied himself with the Turks, was gradually driven out of northern Hungary.
1685
The Turkish captivity of Thököly Imre and the fall of the kuruc movement
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1685
The Pasha of Várad captured Thököly Imre as he was asking for Turkish help and offered him to Emperor Leopold I for peace. But the Imperial emissaries laughed at his face, because, having the upper hand, they no longer cared for Thököly. On the news of his capture, the town of Kassa and the kuruc strongholds surrendered to the Emperor one after the other. The Turks, seeing their fatal mistake, released Thököly the following year and tried to restore his authority, but his power was broken forever and the Hungarian insurgents no longer trusted the Turks. Most of the insurgents joined the imperial army and helped to liberate the rest of Hungary from the Turks.
October 15, 1685
The pasha of Várad arrested Thököly Imre who was asking for his support. The Turks offered him to Leopold I in exchange for peace, but the Imperial emissaries laughed and mocked them, because by that time the rule of Thököly was broken and the Hungarians did not trust the Turks any longer. Thököly was transported to Belgrad in chains. The Turks, regretting their error, soon released him, and treated him as a Prince, but they weren't able to restore his reputation and power.
October 17-25, 1685
Upon receiving the news of the arrest of Thököly Imre, Kassa surrendered to the Imperial General Caprara after a short siege. The Imperials occupied the kuruc castles one after another, because noone believed in the resistance any more. By the 5th of November, only Munkács castle held out, and only because it was defended by Zrínyi Ilona, the wife of Thököly Imre. Most of the former soldiers of Thököly joined the Imperial forces and helped to liberate the rest of Hungary from the Turks forever.
1686
Recapture of Buda and the liberation of Hungary from the Turks
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1686
The army of the Holy League recaptured Buda from the Turks by siege. In 1687, the Imperial army invaded the Principality of Transylvania. The liberation was hindered by the French breaking their promise of peace in 1688 and attacking the Habsburg Empire. By 1699, when the Peace of Karlóca was signed, all of Hungary and Croatia had been liberated from the Ottoman Empire with the exception of Temesköz, the area bounded by the Maros, the Tisza and the Danube rivers. It was not until the Peace of Požarevac in 1718 that Temesköz was liberated from the Turks. However, the continuous war against the Turkish invaders and the Habsburg autocracy, which lasted for more than 150 years, wiped out large areas of the Hungarian population, which had previously made up 80% of the country's population, and was replaced by Vlachs (Romanians), Serbs and other Slavic settlers and Germans. The Habsburgs also favoured the settlement of these foreign peoples over the 'rebellious' Hungarians.
1703-1711
Hungarian War of Independence led by Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II
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1703-1711
After the expulsion of the Turks, the Habsburgs treated Hungary as a newly conquered province and did not respect its constitution. The serfs rose up against the Habsburg ruler because of the sufferings caused by the war and the heavy burdens, and they invited Rákóczi Ferenc II to lead them. Trusting in the help promised by King Louis XIV of France, he accepted. Rákóczi rallied the nobility to his side, and soon most of the country was under his control. The rebels were called the kurucs. In 1704, the French and the Bavarians were defeated at the Battle of Blenheim, depriving the Hungarians of their international allies. The Rusyn, Slovak and Vlach peasants and the Saxons of Szepes supported the fight for freedom, while the Serbs in the south and the Saxons in Transylvania served the Habsburgs. Due to lack of funds Rákóczi could not raise a strong regular army, and in 1710, Hungary was also hit by a severe plague. Rákóczi tried unsuccessfully to forge an alliance with Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. In his absence, without his knowledge, his commander-in-chief, Károlyi Sándor, accepted Emperor Joseph I's peace offer. The Peace of Szatmár formally restored the Hungarian constitution and religious freedom and granted amnesty, but did not ease the burden of serfdom. Rákóczi refused to accept the pardon and went into exile. He died in Rodosto, Turkey.
October 24, 1704
Kassa surrendered to Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II. The town became his headquarters.
September 29 - October 11, 1706
Esze Tamás defended Kassa against the Imperial siege.
1710-11
The plague devastated in the town.
April 27, 1711
Esterházy Dániel handed over the town to the Imperials at the command of Károlyi Sándor, because he thought it was the will of Prince Rákóczi.
1713
Emperor Charles III ordered the deconstruction of the citadel.
1722
The Baroque Immaculate statue was raised in place of the scaffold.
1788
The first Hungarian language magazine, the "Magyar Museum" was published in Kassa. It was published by the Hungarian Society of Kassa founded in 1787 by Kazinczy Ferenc, Baróti Szabó Dávid and Batsányi János.
1802
The town became episcopal seat.
February 15, 1833
The premiere of Bánk bán, the drama of Katona József was in the theatre of Kassa.
1848-1849
Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
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1848-1849
Following the news of the Paris Revolution on 22 February 1848, the Hungarian liberal opposition led by Kossuth Lajos demanded the abolition of serfdom, the abolition of the tax exemption of the nobility, a parliament elected by the people, and an independent and accountable national government. The revolution that broke out in Pest on 15 March expressed its demands in 12 points, which, in addition to the above mentioned, included the freedom of the press, equality before the law, the release of the political prisoners and the union with Transylvania. A Hungarian government was formed, Batthyány Lajos became prime minister, and on 11 April Emperor Ferdinand V ratified the reform laws. On August 31 the Emperor demanded the repeal of the laws threatening with military intervention. In September the Emperor unleashed the army of Jelacic, Ban of Croatia, on Hungary, but they were defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Pákozd on 29 September. An open war began for the independence of Hungary. The Habsburgs incited the nationalities against the Hungarians. The Rusyns, the Slovenes and most of the Slovaks and Germans supported the cause persistently, but the Vlachs (Romanians) and the Serbians turned against the Hungarians. The glorious Spring Campaign in 1849 led by General Görgei Artúr liberated almost all of Hungary. On 1 May 1849, Emperor Franz Joseph, effectively admitting defeat, asked for the help of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who sent an intervention army of 200,000 soldiers against Hungary. The resistance became hopeless against the overwhelming enemy forces and on 13 August Görgei Artúr surrendered to the Russians at Világos. Bloody reprisals followed, and on 6 October 1849, 12 generals and a colonel of the Hungarian Revolution, the martyrs of Arad, were executed in Arad. On the same day, Batthyány Lajos, the first Hungarian Prime Minister, was executed by firing squad in Pest. The Habsburgs introduced total authoritarianism in Hungary, but they also failed to fulfil their promises to the nationalities that had betrayed the Hungarians.
December 11, 1848
After the first battle of Kassa near Budamér the Imperial army of Schlik occupied the town.
January 4, 1849
In the second battle of Kassa near Barca the Hungarians tried to retake the town in vain.
February 9, 1849
As the finale of the winter campaign, Görgey Artúr liberated the town from the Imperials and united with the army of Klapka György.
March 3, 1849
The troops of Georg Ramberg captured the town but in April it was retaken by the Hungarians.
June 24, 1849
The Russian army, intervening on the side of the Habsburg Empire invaded the town.
1860
The town got railway connection with Miskolc.
1867
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
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1867
The Habsburg Empire was weakened by the defeats it suffered in the implementation of Italian and German unity. The Hungarians wanted to return to the reform laws of 1848, but they did not have the strength to do so. Emperor Franz Joseph and the Hungarian opposition, led by Deák Ferenc, finally agreed to restructure the Empire and abolish absolutism. Hungary was given autonomy in its internal affairs, with its own government and parliament, which was essential for the development of its economy and culture. However, foreign and military affairs remained in the hands of the Habsburgs and served their aspiration for becoming a great power. The majority wanted Hungary's independence, but they were excluded from political power.
1891
A horse-drawn tram was built.
1897-1899
The current building of the theatre, planned by Láng Adolf in eclectic style, was constructed.
1900
The famous Hungarian writer Márai Sándor was born in Kassa.
1903
Jakab Árpád built the Jakab Palace in Venetian Gothic style in memory of King Matthias of Hungary.
1914
The tram was electrified.
1906
The remains of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II and his followers in exile were placed in the crypt of the St. Elisabeth Dome in four marble tombs.
1914-1918
World War I
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1914-1918
As part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Hungary took part in the war on the side of the Central Powers.
November 1918 - January 1919
The Czech, Romanian and Serbian occupation of Hungary
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November 1918 - January 1919
In Hungary, the freemasonic subversion brought the pro-Entente Károlyi Mihály to power. The new government, naively trusting the Entente powers, met all their demands and disbanded the Hungarian military, which rendered the country completely defenseless in the most dire need. Under French and Italian command, Czech, Romanian and Serbian troops invaded large parts of Hungary, where they immediately began the takeover. They fired Hungarian railway workers, officials and teachers, banned the use of the Hungarian language, abolished Hungarian education, and disposed of everything that reminded them of the country's Hungarian past. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were forced to leave their homeland, and the forcible assimilation of the remaining Hungarians was begun.
December 29, 1918
The Czechoslovaks invaded Kassa. The invaders put down the short-lived Slovak Republic of Vladimir Dvortsák, which was independent from Czechoslovakia, by force.
21 March - 1 August 1919
Communist takeover and the Northern Campaign
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21 March - 1 August 1919
After the Entente put vast areas with a Hungarian population under foreign administration, the pro-Entente government resigned and the traitorous Prime Minister Károlyi Mihály handed over power to the communists, who had little support anyway. They raised the Hungarian Red Army, which liberated large parts of northern Hungary from Czech occupation in the 'Northern Campaign'. The aim was to unite with the Russian Red Army, which ultimately failed because of the Russians' defeat. French Prime Minister Clemenceau promised the Jewish Kun Béla that he would recognise the Hungarian Soviet Republic and invite it to the peace conference if it would call back the army from northern Hungary. Calling back the army demoralized the soldiers, who fought for their homeland and not for communism. Clemenceau broke his promise and let the Romanian horde cross the Tisza River and capture Budapest.
June 6, 1919
The army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic liberated Kassa from the Czechoslovak invaders.
4 June 1920
Trianon Dictate
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4 June 1920
Hungary was forced to sign the Treaty of Trianon, although the country was not invited to the peace talks. Hungary lost two thirds of its territory that had belonged to it for more than 1000 years. One-third of the Hungarian population came under foreign rule. On the basis of the national principle, countries with a more mixed and less ethnically balanced composition than the former Hungary were created, such as Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). For example, while 48% of the population of the territory ceded to Czechoslovakia was Slovak and 30% Hungarian, 54% of the population of the former Hungary was Hungarian and 10.6% Slovak. And in the territory that is now part of Serbia, the Hungarians outnumbered the Serbs. The part of the territory allocated to Romania from Hungary was larger than the remaining territory of Hungary, despite the fact that there were 10 million Hungarians and less than 3 million Romanians in the former Hungary. While Hungary used to have the most liberal nationality policy in Europe, the successor states had no respect at all for the national and cultural rights of the indigenous Hungarians and engaged in forced assimilation. The Trianon Dictate destroyed the organic economic unity of the region. Before the First World War, Hungary had a dynamic economy, more advanced than Spain's. After 1920, the successor states formed the so-called "Little Entente", putting Hungary under an economic blockade and sabotaging it on the international stage.
2 November 1938
First Vienna Award
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2 November 1938
Under the First Vienna Award, Hungary regained 11,927 km2 of territory from Czechoslovakia. Its population was 869 thousand people, 86.5% of whom were Hungarian. France and Great Britain did not take part in the decision taken by Germany and Italy, citing disinterest, but acknowledged its validity.
November 2, 1938
Kassa returned to Hungary according to the First Vienna Award.
1940-43
The construction of the Rodostó House. One half of the house of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II was transported from Rodostó (now Tekirdağ, Turkey) to Kassa. After the fall of the Hungarian war of independence in 1711, the Prince lived in Turky, in the town of Rodostó (Rodosto) in exile until his death. The house was rebuilt in Kassa between 1940 and 1943 based on the plans of Lux Kálmán. It was opened to the public only in 1991 because of the Sovjet invasion and the resurrection of the chauvinistic and hungarophobe Czechoslovakia.
June 26, 1941
Kassa was bombed by the Soviet air force. 29 people died and many injured. In response Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union. Earlier the bombing was considered to have been a false-flag mission of the Germans, to make Hungary join their war against the Soviet Union. In reality the Soviets wanted to bomb a German radio station in Eperjes (which was then part of Slovakia), north of Kassa, but mistook the town from the air.
Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
Soviet occupation
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Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
The Soviet Red Army occupied Hungary and Slovakia, which resulted in the recreation of Czechoslovakia.
5 April 1945
Beneš decrees and the persecution of Hungarians
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5 April 1945
In Hungarian-majority Kassa, the president of occupying Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, promulgated his government program, the so-called Beneš decrees. As part of this, the Hungarian population was deprived of their rights. Their complete expulsion was planned, with the support of the Soviet Union, and only the veto of the USA prevented it. Under the 'Reslavakization' programme, only those Hungarians who recognised themselves as Slovaks were allowed to regain their rights, thus renouncing all linguistic and cultural rights. In the violent expulsions that followed, nearly 200,000 Hungarians were deprived of their property and expelled from their homeland on the basis of their nationality.
April 5, 1945
The Czechoslovak president Benes announced his government program from Kassa, these are called the Benes-decrees. It deprived the Hungarians of all their rights and planned their expulsion from their homeland. The announcement was made in the old county hall of Abaúj-Torna.
after 1945
The town's Hungarian population was expelled, their properties were confiscated without any compensation, and Kassa was repopulated by Slovaks. One of many internment camps where the Czechoslovaks gathered the native Hungarians and Germans they wanted to expel because of their nationality operated in Kassa.
1947
Paris Dictate
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1947
The Paris Dictate, in accordance with Soviet interests, did not recognise the just territorial revisions made by the two Vienna decisions and handed the reclaimed Hungarian-majority territories back to Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia, where the Hungarians were subjected to severe atrocities, expulsions and deprivation of rights. It also seceded three more villages south of Pozsony from Hungary to Czechoslovakia.
1 January 1993
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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1 January 1993
Czechoslovakia disintegrated due to ethnic differences between Czechs and Slovaks, shortly after the withdrawal of Soviet tanks. Slovakia was formed entirely from territory carved out of historic Hungary, and Slovak national identity is still largely based on falsified history and artificial hatred of Hungarians. Despite deportations, expulsions, forced assimilation and strong economic pressure, there are still nearly half a million Hungarians living in the country.
Source: Wikipedia, arcanum.hu - Bánlaky József: A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme
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Churches, religious buildings
Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary
Dóm svätej Alžbety
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church
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church
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Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary
History
The Gothic cathedral is dedicated to St. Elisabeth of Hungary, who lived between 1207 and 1231. There is an excellent view from the northern tower of the cathedral.
After the former church on the same location burned down in 1378, the construction of the cathedral was decided. The construction finished in 1520. The Matthias Tower, the Royal Stairway and the sanctuary was built in 1461. The Holy Cross Chapel and the Virgin and Child with St. Anne Chapel were built in 1467. The Chapel of Virgin Mary and the Chapel of St. Joseph, the later of which did not survive, were built in 1477.
During his uprising Bocska István gave the church to the Lutherans in 1604, they used it until 1671. The Lutherans used the church also between 1682 and 1687 thanks to Thököly Imre, leader of the kuruc insurgents.
The northern tower gained its final form in 1775, while the never-finished southern Matthias Tower gained its current form in 1904.
The winged main altar of the church was made between 1474 and 1477.
The diocese of Kassa was established in 1804 and the church became a cathedral. Previously it was a parish church.
The church was renovated between 1877 and 1896 according to the plans of the Hungarian architect Steindl Imre.
In 1906 the remains of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II, brought back from Rodosto (Edirne, Turkey), were placed in the lower church. Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II led the Hungarian War of Independence against the Habsburg Empire between 1703 and 1711. After its fall he rather went in exile than accept the mercy of the emperor. The remains of Zrínyi Ilona, his mother, and Bercsényi Miklós, his general and follower in exile, also rest here.
St. Michael Chapel
Kostol svätého Michala
Originally:
chapel
Currently:
chapel
Church:
Roman Catholic
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St. Michael Chapel
History
It was a cemetery chapel. Its lower church dates back to the 13th century, while the upper part of the chapel was built between 1360 and 1380. It was expanded at the end of the 15th century at the initiative of Szathmáry György. The chapel was renovated between 1902 and 1904 led by the architect Schulek Frigyes.
Archbishop's Palace
Arcibiskupský palác
Originally:
Bishop's / Archbishop's Palace
Currently:
Bishop's / Archbishop's Palace
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Archbishop's Palace
History
The diocese of Kassa was established in 1804 by Emperor Francis I from the Hungarian counties of Abaúj, Zemplén and Sáros, which previously belonged to the diocese of Eger. In 1995 Pope John Paul II promoted it to the rank of archdiocese during his visit in Kassa.
In 1804 the Csáky and Sztáray houses were joined, in 1893 the southern Gering house was also added to the building, thus creating its present-day facade. The coat of arms of Bishop Ocskay Antal decorates the facade.
Dominican Church of the Assumption
Kostol nanebovzatia Panny Márie - dominikáni
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church
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church
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Roman Catholic
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Dominican Church of the Assumption
History
It was already standing in the 1250's. The church was reconstructed in Gothic style in 1437. In 1553 the Calvinists of the town attacked and plundered the monastery, afterwards the Dominicans left Kassa. They returned in 1699 and restored the church by the year 1767 in Baroque style. It gained its current form in 1894.
St. Anthony of Padua Franciscan Seminary Church and Monastery
Seminárny kostol sv. Antona Paduánskeho
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church and monastery
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church and monastery
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Roman Catholic
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St. Anthony of Padua Franciscan Seminary Church and Monastery
History
The Perényi family built the church between 1370 and 1400 for the Franciscans in Gothic style. The church was reconstructed in Baroque style between 1718 and 1724. The monastery got Baroque appearance between 1764 and 1765, and the 2nd floor was also added at that time.
It was the seat of the bishop of Eger between 1597 and 1671. Afterwards it was recovered by the Franciscans, who dedicated it to St. Anthony of Padua. The guardian of the church was earlier St. Nicholas. With the establishment of the diocese of Kassa in 1804, the monastery became a seminary (priests were trained in the building).
Bishop Kisdy Benedek of Eger, the founder of the University of Kassa, is buried in the crypt. The founding diploma of the Academy of Kassa was written by Kisdy Benedek on February 26, 1657. Emperor Leopold I confirmed it in his diploma on August 7, 1660, and the academy was opened. Sorrowfully Kisdy could not live to see it, because he died on June 22.
Norbertine Trinity Church and Monastery
Premonštrátsky kostol Najsvätejšej Trojice
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church and monastery, university / college
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church
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Roman Catholic
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Norbertine Trinity Church and Monastery
History
Once it was owned by the Jesuits, now it is the church of the Norbertines. It has a Renaissance facade, but the interior is Baroque. Above the entrance the united coat of arms of the Báthory and Rákóczi families can be seen.
The church was built between 1671 and 1681 by Emperor Leopold I from the ransom Báthory Zsófia paid for the life of his son, Rákóczi Ferenc I, after the unveiling of the Wesselényi-conspiracy against the Habsburg emperor. On the northern wall of the church a plaque (death epitaph) made of linden wood commemorates the death of Rákóczi Ferenc I in 1676. He was buried in the crypt of the church, just like his mother, Báthory Zsófia.
On September 6, 1619 Kőrösi Márk, canon of Esztergom, and two Jesuit fathers, Pongrácz István and Grodecz Menyhért, became martyrs here during the campaign of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania.
The monastery and the grammar school is connected to the church. The monastery was once a royal house (domus regia), later it became the seat of the Captain-in-Chiefs of Upper Hungary. The Hungarian princes of Transylvania (Bocskai István, Bethlen Gábor and Rákóczi György I) also stayed here with their court during their campaigns against the Habsburg emperors.
The Jesuit University founded by Bishop Kisdy Benedek of Eger in 1657 also worked in the building of the monastery. The founding diploma of the Academy of Kassa was written by Kisdy Benedek on February 26, 1657. Emperor Leopold I confirmed it in his diploma on August 7, 1660, and the academy was opened. Sorrowfully Kisdy could not live to see it, because he died on June 22. lt became Royal Academy from 1776. The academy ceased to exist in 1921 after the Czechoslovak invasion.
In 1787 Kazinczy Ferenc and Batsányi János visited the poet and priest Baróti Szabó Dávid, who tought here. They decided to establish the Hungarian Association of Kassa, which launched the first Hungarian-language literary journal, the Magyar Museum, in 1788.
St. Anne Church
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St. Michael the Archangel Church of the Ursulines
Kostol Sv. Michala Archanjela
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church
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church
Church:
Roman Catholic
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St. Michael the Archangel Church of the Ursulines
History
The church was built by the Calvinists of Kassa between 1652 and 1655. In 1673 the Habsburg ruler took it from the Calvinists and afterwards it was used for storing military equipment. In 1682 Thököly Imre gave it back to the Calvinists. In 1698 the church was given to Ursuline nuns from Pozsony. In 1706 Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II gave the church back to the Calvinists once again, but they lost it after the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1711.
Holy Spirit Church and Hospital
Špitálsky kostol svätého Ducha
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church
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church
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Holy Spirit Church and Hospital
History
The hospital and the church were mentioned for the first time in 1283. It was built outside of town according to the custom of the era. The Baroque building that can be seen today was built between 1731 and 1733. Later it was partly reconstructed in Classicist style.
Calvinist Church
Kostol reformovanej kresťanskej circus
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church
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church
Church:
Calvinist
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Calvinist Church
History
Now it is the church of the only Hungarian Calvinist congregation of Kassa. It was built between 1805 and 1810. The tower was built in 1853.
Lutheran Church
Evanjelický kostol
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church
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church
Church:
Lutheran
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Lutheran Church
History
It was built between 1804 and 1816 in Classicist style.
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of Jesus
Gréckokatolícky katedrálny chrám Narodenia Presvätej Bohorodičky
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church
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church
Church:
Greek Catholic
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Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of Jesus
History
The Greek Catholic church was built in neo-Romanesque style between 1882 and 1886.
St. Florian Chapel
Kaplnka sv. Floriána
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chapel
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chapel
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Roman Catholic
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St. Florian Chapel
History
It was built in 1823 in memory of the great fire that devastated the town in 1820. it was reconstructed in Historicist style by the citizen Bauernebl Szilárd.
St. Rosalia Chapel
Kaplnka St. Rozálie
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chapel
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chapel
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Roman Catholic
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St. Rosalia Chapel
History
The chapel was built between 1714 and 1715 in Baroque style. It received permission for granting indulgence from Pope Clement XIII in 1762 for the feast of St. Rosalia.
Chapel of the Elevation of Jesus
Kaplnka Nanebovstúpenia Pan
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chapel
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chapel
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Roman Catholic
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Chapel of the Elevation of Jesus
History
It was built in 1830 in Classicist style in memory of the death of the last victim of the plague in Kassa. The last victim died where the chapel was built.
Calvary
Kostol na Calvary
Originally:
calvary
Currently:
calvary
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Calvary
History
It is situated on a hill northwest of the town. It is the place for gaining indulgence for the people of Kassa. The Jesuits built it between 1736 and 1758. It was a military storage between 1773 and 1820. In 1826 Pope Leo XII allowed full indulgence for its visitors. Most of the stations (chapels) were built in the 19th century.
Catholic Parish
RIMSKOKATOLÍCKY FARSKÝ
Originally:
parish
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parish
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Catholic Parish
History
It was built between 1901 and 1902 in eclectic-Art Nouveau style. There had been a parish building in its place already in 1248.
Ursuline Nunnery
URŠULÍNSKY KLÁŠTOR
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monastery / nunnery / canon's house / provost residence
Currently:
monastery / nunnery / canon's house / provost residence
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Roman Catholic
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Ursuline Nunnery
History
The church was built by the Calvinists of Kassa between 1652 and 1655. In 1673 the Habsburg ruler took it from the Calvinists and afterwards it was used for storing military equipment. In 1682 Thököly Imre gave it back to the Calvinists. In 1698 the church was given to Ursuline nuns from Pozsony. In 1706 Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II gave the church back to the Calvinists once again, but they lost it after the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1711.
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Kisdyánum
History
The building was reconstructed in the 17th century in Renaissance style by Bishop Kisdy Benedek of Eger, who established a seminary in the building for training priests. In 1861 the building was reconstructed by Eötvös Miklós and Andrássy Károly and the second floor was also added at that time.
Old Orthodox Synagogue
Stará Synagoga
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
museum
Church:
Jewish
Note:
Temporary exhibitions.
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Old Orthodox Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built in 1899.
former Neolog Synagogue
Štátna Philharmonic Hall, Košice, Dom umenia
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
dancing / concert hall
Church:
Jewish
Note:
Concert hall of the State Philharmonic Orchestra
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former Neolog Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built in 1927.
New Orthodox Synagogue
Synagóga na Pushkinovej ulici
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
gallery
Church:
Jewish
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New Orthodox Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built between 1926 and 1927.
Public buildings
former County Hall, East-Slovakian Gallery
Župný dom
Originally:
county hall
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gallery
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former County Hall, East-Slovakian Gallery
History
It was the seat of Abaúj-Torna County within Hungary. It was built in Baroque-Classicist style in 1779 according to the plans of the architect Langer János. lt went through significant modifications between 1887 and 1889 led by the architects Gerster Béla and Markó Gusztáv.
After the Soviet invasion the Czechoslovak president Eduard Benes announced the notorious Government Program of Kassa from the balcony of this building on April 5, 1945 about the deprivation of rights and properties of the native Hungarian population and about their planned expulsion from their homeland. These were the so called Benes decrees.
Old County Hall
History
In the 17th century Kassa became the seat of Abaúj County. Abaúj was one of the counties of Hungary. The building became the county hall at that time. The county assemblies were held here until 1779, when a new county hall was constructed.
Old Town Hall
History
It was built in Baroque-Classicist style between 1779 and 1780 according to the plans of the architect Langer János. It served as town hall until 1927.
House of the Order of Vitéz
History
It was built in 1913 for the seat of the Freemason movement established in 1870. It was planned by the architect Sipos Béla. In 1938, after Kassa returned to Hungary, the Freemason movement was banned and the building became the seat of the Order of Vitéz. It was reconstructed according to the plans of Őri Lajos. The Order of Vitéz was an official Hungarian order of merit founded in 1920, after Hungary lost two thirds of its core territory in the Trianon Dictate. Members were accepted based on either military merits or other services made for the Hungarian nation. They followed strict conservative values which was a reaction to the spreading plague of communism. The members could use the name prefix "Vitéz", which means valiant soldier in Hungarian.
former Seat of the Chamber of Szepes
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seat of an institution
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former Seat of the Chamber of Szepes
History
The Chamber of Szepes was created in 1567 for the financial administration of the eastern parts of Hungary. Most of the building has already been demolished by now, but a narrow section of the former building still stands.
During a reconstruction in 1935 a worker found a copper vessel full of gold coins in the cellar of the building with his pickaxe by accident. This is the so called "gold treasure of Kassa" and it can be seen in the East-Slovakian Museum (former Museum of Upper Hungary).
Railvay Directorate
Daňový úrad Košice
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seat of an institution
Currently:
public administration
Note:
Tax Office.
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Railvay Directorate
History
It was built in 1986.
former Royal High Court
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Originally:
court
Currently:
university / college
Note:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
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former Royal High Court
History
It was built in 1903 in Art-Nouveau style for the Royal High Court according to the plans of Répászky Mihály. It has been the rector's office of the Pavel Josef Safárik University of Kassa since 1959.
former Court of Justice
History
It was once court of justice and jail.
Miklós Prison, East-Slovakian Museum
Miklušova väznica
Own work, photo by Szilas in Kassa / Public domain
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prison/jail
Currently:
museum
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Miklós Prison, East-Slovakian Museum
History
It is part of the museum. The building can be accessed from the Rodosto House through a passage. It was created in the 17th century by joining two Gothic houses from the first half of the 15th century. It was the town's prison and torture chamber from the 17th century until 1909. The executioner also lived here. The building got its name after Miklós, the infamous executioner of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II. It was the prison of the town's gendarmerie from 1872 to 1909. Afterwards it became part of the Rákóczi Museum of Upper Hungary with an exhibition of town and guild history.
House of the Captains-in-Chief, Museum of Technology
Slovenské technické múzeum
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military headquarters / administration, barracks
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museum
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House of the Captains-in-Chief, Museum of Technology
History
The building was gradually created from four separate Gothic burgher's houses. It gained its final Baroque form in the 18th century. It was the seat of the Captain-in-Chief of Upper-Hungary. It was turned into a barracks in 1870.
After Kassa returned to Hungary, a museum of technology was established in the building in 1943. The rich collection came from the Museum of Technology in Budapest. With the Soviet invasion the Czechoslovak administration returned to the Hungarian town. The museum was reopened in 1947 as Slovak Technical Museum. The Slovaks keep quiet about the fact on the museum's homepage, that it was also established by the Hungarians, they just state that it was established in 1947.
former Imperial and Royal Military Headquarters
Východoslovenské múzeum - Storočia v umení / Príroda Karpát
Originally:
military headquarters / administration
Currently:
museum
Note:
Directorate of the East-Slovakian Museum
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former Imperial and Royal Military Headquarters
History
It was built in 1908 in eclectic, Art-Nouveau style for the military headquarters. Now it is the office of the East-Slovakian Museum and the District of Kassa.
Fireman Barracks
Okresné riaditeľstvo HaZZ
Originally:
fire station
Currently:
fire station
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Fireman Barracks
History
It was built between 1927 and 1928 according to the plans of Oelschlanger Lajos and Boskó Géza Zoltán.
Cultural facilities
former Museum of Upper Hungary, now East-Slovakian Museum
Východoslovenské múzeum
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museum
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museum
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former Museum of Upper Hungary, now East-Slovakian Museum
History
It was built between 1899 and 1901 in neo-Baroque style according to the plans of Lechner Ödön for the Museum of Upper Hungary.
The Association of the Museum of Upper Hungary was established in 1872. The first exhibition of the museum opened in 1876. It was renamed to Rákóci Museum of Upper Hungary in 1906 on the occasion of the reburial of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II. He was the leader of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1703 and 1711. After the Czechoslovak invasion in 1919 the museum was renamed to East-Slovakian Museum.
Rodosto House, East-Slovakian Museum
Východoslovenské múzeum - Rodošto
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museum
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museum
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Rodosto House, East-Slovakian Museum
History
This is a reproduction of the house in which Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II lived in Rodosto (Edirne, Turkey) during his exile after the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1711. The plans had already been made by Lux Kálmán back in 1908, but because of World War I and the Czechoslovak invasion the construction could only begin in 1942, after the Hungarian town had returned to Hungary.
But the construction was again halted by the Soviet invasion, the return of the Czechoslovak administration and the expulsion of the Hungarian inhabitants of Kassa. The building was only finished in 1991, and the museum was opened.
former Grammar School
Gymnázium
Originally:
school
Currently:
school
Note:
Grammar school.
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former Grammar School
History
It was built in 1882 in place of a former brewery.
Town School
Konzervatórium
Originally:
school
Currently:
school
Note:
Conservatorium (music school).
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Town School
History
It was built in 1891 in eclectic style. During the Czechoslovak occupation between 1918 and 1938, this was the only authorized Hungarian-language primary school in Kassa, which had Hungarian majority. In 1941, when the town became part of Hungary again, a plaque was placed in memory of this fact. But the Czechoslovak authorities creeping back to Kassa behind the Soviet tanks, removed it in 1945.
Convict
Kňazský seminár sv. Karola Boromejského
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Originally:
school
Currently:
school
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Convict
History
It was built in 1657. In 1652 Balassa Zsuzsanna established the convict for educating young Catholic nobles. The building was reconstructed in Classicist style in the 19th century. In 1995 Pope John Paul II stayed here.
Norbertine Grammar School
Premonštrátske gymnázium
Originally:
school
Currently:
school
Church:
Roman Catholic
Note:
Grammar school.
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Norbertine Grammar School
History
The Jesuits built a Baroque building for the grammar school in 1733. A new, eclectic building was raised for the school in its place between 1903 and 1907.
Theatre
Štátne divadlo Košice
Originally:
theatre/opera
Currently:
theatre/opera
Note:
State theatre
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Theatre
History
The old town hall stood on its site from the 14th century untill 1756. The predecessor of the theatre was built between 1786 and 1789 by Count Sztáray Mihály and Count Vécsey Miklós. This building included a theatre, a casino, a dancing hall (Vigadó) and a café. The premiere of the "Ban Bánk", the famous drama of the Hungarian playwright Katona József, was here on February 15, 1833. The building was closed in 1894 for safety concerns and was demolished in 1897.
The current building of the theatre was built between 1897 and 1899 according to the plans of Lang Adolf. The construction was managed by Répászky Mihály, the famous architect of Kassa. At the end of World War II the Hungarian inhabitants of Kassa were expelled and the theatre was renamed to Slovak State Theatre.
Grand Casino
Staromestské divadlo
Originally:
casino
Currently:
theatre/opera
Note:
Theatre.
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Grand Casino
History
It was built in 1903 in Art-Nouveau style according to the plans of Répászky Gyula.
Commerce, industry, hospitality
Lőcse House
Levočský dom
Originally:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Currently:
restaurant / confectionery / café
Note:
Pub, pizzeria.
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Lőcse House
History
The building was constructed in the 14th century in Gothic style. At the end of the 15th century it was owned by Archbishop Szatmáry György of Esztergom (1457-1524), who was born in Kassa. Later it became the property of Thurzó Elek (1490-1543). In 1542 Thurzó Elek donated the building to the town of Lőcse, and it became the favorite accommodation of the merchants of Lőcse, hence its name.
In 1569 the building was purchased by Kassa and it was turned into a luxurious guest house. The wedding party of Prince Bethen Gábor of Transylvania and Catherine of Brandenburg was held here on March 2, 1626. The feast lasted one week and the members of European ruling houses participated in it. It was reconstructed in Renaissance style in the 17th century. In the 18th century it was given Baroque adornments. In 1782 it lost its significance because the Black Eagle Hotel was opened, which became the most important guest house of the town.
former Black Eagle Hotel
Čierny Orol
Originally:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse, prison/jail
Currently:
restaurant / confectionery / café
Note:
Black Eagle Restaurant
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former Black Eagle Hotel
History
It was built in 1782 in late Baroque style. It had several famous guests, including Emperor Joseph II in 1782 and the Hungarian revolutionary poet Petőfi Sándor in 1845. It was owned by the father-in-law of Kazinczy Ferenc at the end of the 18th century. Kazinczy Ferenc, the greatest reformer of the Hungarian language, lived and worked here, and there is a plaque commemorating him on the building. After the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1849, a prison was opened in the building. The Hungarian poet Tompa Mihály was imprisoned here between 1852 and 1853.
former Savoy Café and Hotel
Slávia
Originally:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse, restaurant / confectionery / café
Currently:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
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former Savoy Café and Hotel
History
It was built in 1900 in Art-Nouveau style. It was called Savoy, later Royal café and hotel. After the Czechoslovak invasion in 1919 it was renamed to Slávia.
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Dry Mill
History
The building had functioned as a dry mill already in 1604. It was driven by horses. Later it became the studio of Csordák Lajos and Halász-Hradik Elemér, who were Hungarian painters. They have a memorial plaque on the building.
Town infrastructure
St. Urban Tower
History
The 45-metres high tower wears the name of St. Urban, the guardian of the grape growers of Kassa. Lindner Márton, the court architect of Price Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania, constructed the tower in 1628. The arcades were built in 1912 and some of the tombstones found during the renovation of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary were placed there.
Citadel of Kassa
History
There is nothing left of the fort by now.
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Lower Gate, Underground Excavation Site
History
In the 13th century during the reign of the House of Árpád in Hungary, a rectangular gatehouse was built. During the reign of King Sigismund of Hungary (1387-1438) another gate was added with a tower a bit to the south. During the reign of King Matthias of Hungary (1458-1490) a half-round barbican was built in front of the wall, which could be accessed through a bridge. Cannons could be placed on the barbican to defend the town.
Ruins of the Forgách Gate
Fontána na Alžbetinej
Originally:
town gate
Currently:
town gate
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Ruins of the Forgách Gate
History
It was built in the 13th century as the western gate of the town. During the reign of King Matthias of Hungary (1458-1490) an octagonal barbican was built to protect the gate. The gate was walled in in 1644 and demolished in 1783.
Ruins of the Mill Gate
History
It was built in the 14th century and was walled in in the 16th century. It was named after the Mill canal fed by the Hernád River and the mill itself.
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Mill Bastion
History
It was built in 1566 to protect the town from the north. It functioned as a stoneware factory between 1802 and 1836. Afterwards it became a tannery that was also closed in 1861 and the building has been abandoned ever since.
Executioner's Bastion
Katova bašta
Originally:
town fortification
Currently:
town fortification
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Executioner's Bastion
History
It was built at the end of the 15th century during the reign of King Matthias of Hungary (1458-1490) together with and as part of the defenses of the town. It was the largest bastion of the town's walls and it protected one of the gates. It is situated next to the Rodosto House. Inside there is an exhibition of medieval arms and cannons.
Singing Fountain
Spievajúca fontána (zvonkohra)
Originally:
fountain
Currently:
fountain
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Singing Fountain
History
The construction of the new building for the directorate of the Kassa-Oderberg railway started in 1913. The railway company connected the Prussian Silesia with Hungary.
The company's seat was located in Budapest, while its directorates were in Kassa and Teschen (Silesia). The western wing of the eclectic palace was completed in 1915, while its eastern wing was only finished in 1927.
After Kassa returned to Hungary in 1938, the National Hungarian Technical Museum was opened in the building on 11 November 1943. Its collection remained in Kassa after the Soviet invasion and the recreation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. The Hungarian town of Kassa was again taken from Hungary, the museum was renamed to Slovak Technical Museum, and the Hungarians were driven away from the town.
Private buildings
Forgách Palace
Pongrácovsko - Forgáčovský palác
Originally:
palace, public administration, casino, bank
Currently:
library
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Forgách Palace
History
The palace was built between 1845 and 1847 in Classicist style by Count Forgách Kálmán and his wife, Pongrácz Eleonóra. After the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1849, the regional Imperial government occupied the building during the Habsburg absolutism. It became a casino in 1878. After the town returned to Hungary in 1938, the courtyard was covered with a glass dome between 1939 and 1940 and the Bank of Upper Hungary moved in.
Barkóczy Palace
History
Bishop Barkóczy Ferenc of Eger built the Baroque palace in the first half of the 18th century for his personal residence. In 1805 Emperor Francis I fled his children here before Napoleon.
Tost Palace
History
It was built in 1911 in Art Nouveau style by Tost László, vice mayor of Kassa and member of the Parliament of Hungary. The architect was György Dénes.
Jakab Palace
History
The palace was built next to the bridge of the Mill-dich in Venetian Gothic style. The architect Jakab Árpád built the palace in memory of King Matthias of Hungary. There is a plaque on its wall with the following inscription in Hungarian language:
"The memory of Matthias, the just king, lives forever in the grateful heart of the community of Kassa".
Stahlhausen Palace
History
It was built in the second half of the 17th century in late Renaissance style. In the 19th century the building was acquired by Baron Stahlhausen.
Csaky-Dessewffy Palace
Csáky - Dezőfiho palác
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Originally:
palace
Currently:
house
Note:
Book store.
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Csaky-Dessewffy Palace
History
It was built between 1805 and 1807 in late Baroque-Classicist style for the Csáky counts. The Dessewffy counts acquired it in the 19th century. On the pediment the coat of arms of the Csáky family can be seen with the cut off head of a Tatar warrior. In 1849 Grand Prince Constantine, the supreme commander of the Russian army sent to suppress the Hungarian War of Independence, stayed in the building. Now it is a bookstore and the office of the editorial of the "Kassai Figyelő", a Hungarian language monthly journal.
Andrássy Palace
Andrášiho palác
Originally:
palace, restaurant / confectionery / café
Currently:
restaurant / confectionery / café
Note:
Confectionery.
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Andrássy Palace
History
It was built in 1898 by Count Andrássy Dénes in Historicist, neo-Baroque style. The implementer was the Jakab and Répászky construction company. On its ground floor was located the most popular café of the town, the Andrássy Café.
Mayor's Office of the Old Town
Miestny úrad Košice - Staré Mesto
Originally:
house
Currently:
town hall
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Mayor's Office of the Old Town
History
The building was constructed in Art-Nouveau style in 1912 according to the plans of Lechner Ödön. It was originally a tenement house. Lechner Ödön is the most famous representative of the Hungarian Art-Nouveau architecture.
Wick House and Plaque of Wick Béla
Pamatná tabuľa Vojtech Wick Béla
Originally:
house
Currently:
house
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Wick House and Plaque of Wick Béla
History
It was the house of the parents of Wick Béla. Wick Béla (1873-1955) was a canon, a papal prelate and also the most famous historian of Kassa.
Birthplace of Márai Sándor
History
The house was built around 1804 and was once the house of the Márai family. The famous Hungarian writer Márai Sándor was born here in 1900.
House and Plaque of Márai Sándor, Márai Exhibition
Pamätná výstava Sándora Máraia
Originally:
house
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museum
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House and Plaque of Márai Sándor, Márai Exhibition
History
In 1915 Márai Sándor moved to this house. In fact he was living in Budapest in a student dorm. The Márai Exhibition was opened on January 22, 2019.
Museum of Löffler Béla
History
Löffler Béla was a sculptor born in Kassa in 1906. He died in 1990 and left his collection on the town. He made the Rákóczi relief on the wall of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, but his statues and reliefs can be found all across east Slovakia.
The building has been a gallery of contemporary art since 1993, where the collection of Löffler Béla can also be seen.
The museum uses the Slovakized name of the artist. The Hungarians were forced to Slovakize their name after World War II. The authentic Hungarian name Béla was Slovakized to Vojtech.
Vitéz House
History
It is the property of the Roman Catholic diocese. It was built in 1849 by the landowner Vitéz György for himself and for his family. The architect was Fischer József.
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Begger's House
History
It was built in 1898. According to the legend a beggar from Kassa managed to collect so much money that he could build this house.
Memorials
Statue of Rákóczi Ferenc II
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
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Statue of Rákóczi Ferenc II
History
It stands before the Rodosto House. It was made in 2006 by Győrfi Sándor.
Statue of Jakoby Gyula
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statue / memorial / relief
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statue / memorial / relief
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Statue of Jakoby Gyula
History
Jakoby Gyula (1903-1985) was a famous Hungarian painter, who was born in Kassa. His statue was unveiled in 1982 in the courtyard of the East-Slovakian Museum (former Museum of Upper Hungary). In 2000 it was moved to its current location. The statue is the artwork of Bartusz György.
former Statue of the Hungarian Freedom Fighter
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statue / memorial / relief
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statue / memorial / relief
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former Statue of the Hungarian Freedom Fighter
History
The statue was raised in 1906 next to the Chapel of St. Michael in memory of the 9th battalion from Kassa, which fought heroically in the Hungarian War of Independence between 1848 and 1849.
On December 29, 1918 the Czechoslovak Legion invaded Kassa. On March 15, 1919 the Hungarian majority of Kassa held a commemoration at the statue and also peacefully protested against the invasion. During the night of March 16 the Czechoslovaks tore down the Hungarian sign boards on the main street and shot on those who dared to look out of the window. Next morning the Czechoslovaks cut off the head of the statue of the Hungarian freedom fighter with a saw then tore down the entire statue. Soon a large crowd gathered at the statue to protest against the vandalism. One of the Czechoslovak soldiers standing guard at the ruins of the statue shot into the crowd. He hit the 37 years-old housewife Ördög Ilona in the forehead and the 13 years-old newspaper seller girl Hervacsics Aranka in the neck. Both of them died. The Italian officers, who were in Kassa to control the invasion, were astonished by the murder. They sent a report to Rome, but nothing happened. On June 4, 1920 the town of Kassa, despite having a massive Hungarian majority, was attached to Czechoslovakia. Since then the Czechoslovaks have managed to get rid of not only the statue but also most of the Hungarian inhabitants of the town.
Statue of Márai Sándor
Pamätník Sándora Máraiho
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
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Statue of Márai Sándor
History
The statue of the famous Hungarian writer Márai Sándor (1900-1989) was unveiled in 2004. It is the artwork of Gáspár Péter.
Bell of St. Urban
Zvon Urban
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
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Bell of St. Urban
History
The bell of St. Urban weighing 7,200 kilograms served in the Urban-tower until 1966, when it fell down and broke due to a fire. The bell was cast in 1557 by Illenfeld Ferenc, famous bell-founder and cannon-maker, from the fragments of the bells destroyed in the fire in 1556. The non-metallic copy of the bell can be seen before the Urban-tower. The copy of the bell that is rung at noon every day was made in 1999.
Coat of Arms of Kassa
Erb mesta Košice
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
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statue / memorial / relief
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Coat of Arms of Kassa
History
Kassa was the first town in Europe that was granted a coat of arms by a king, namely by King Louis I of Hungary, on May 7, 1369. This day is the day of the town. In the 15th century Kassa was the second largest town of Hungary after Buda.
Immaculata Column
Súsošie Immaculata - Morový stĺp
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Immaculata Column
History
It was raised between 1720 and 1723 in memory of the plague between 1709 and 1710.
Bell of St. John
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Bell of St. John
History
It was cast in 1558 by Franz Illenfeld. It served in the northern tower of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary until 1926, when it was replaced by a new one.
Trinity Column
Trojičný stĺp so súsoším svätej trojice
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Trinity Column
History
It was raised in 1722 in memory of the plague.
Plaque of Bocskai István
History
It was unveiled in 2004 commemorating the 400th anniversary of the successful uprising of Bocskai István against the Habsburg emperor.
Plaque of Baróthi Szabó Dávid
History
Baróthi Szabó Dávid (1739-1819) was a priest, a poet and a reformer of the Hungarian language. His plaque was placed in 1995 on the wall of the former Jesuit monastery, where he taught.
Plaque of Tinódy Lantos Sebestyén
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Taz / Public domain
Originally:
plaque
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plaque
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Plaque of Tinódy Lantos Sebestyén
History
Tinódy Lantos Sebestyén (1510-1556) was a Hungarian song writer and lute player, who lived in Kassa for a few years from 1548. In 1900 a plaque was placed on the wall of the building that stands where once stood the house he lived in.
Museums and Galleries
former Museum of Upper Hungary, now East-Slovakian Museum
Východoslovenské múzeum
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museum
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museum
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former Museum of Upper Hungary, now East-Slovakian Museum
History
It was built between 1899 and 1901 in neo-Baroque style according to the plans of Lechner Ödön for the Museum of Upper Hungary.
The Association of the Museum of Upper Hungary was established in 1872. The first exhibition of the museum opened in 1876. It was renamed to Rákóci Museum of Upper Hungary in 1906 on the occasion of the reburial of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II. He was the leader of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1703 and 1711. After the Czechoslovak invasion in 1919 the museum was renamed to East-Slovakian Museum.
Rodosto House, East-Slovakian Museum
Východoslovenské múzeum - Rodošto
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museum
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museum
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Rodosto House, East-Slovakian Museum
History
This is a reproduction of the house in which Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II lived in Rodosto (Edirne, Turkey) during his exile after the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1711. The plans had already been made by Lux Kálmán back in 1908, but because of World War I and the Czechoslovak invasion the construction could only begin in 1942, after the Hungarian town had returned to Hungary.
But the construction was again halted by the Soviet invasion, the return of the Czechoslovak administration and the expulsion of the Hungarian inhabitants of Kassa. The building was only finished in 1991, and the museum was opened.
Old Orthodox Synagogue
Stará Synagoga
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
museum
Church:
Jewish
Note:
Temporary exhibitions.
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Old Orthodox Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built in 1899.
New Orthodox Synagogue
Synagóga na Pushkinovej ulici
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
gallery
Church:
Jewish
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New Orthodox Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built between 1926 and 1927.
former County Hall, East-Slovakian Gallery
Župný dom
Originally:
county hall
Currently:
gallery
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former County Hall, East-Slovakian Gallery
History
It was the seat of Abaúj-Torna County within Hungary. It was built in Baroque-Classicist style in 1779 according to the plans of the architect Langer János. lt went through significant modifications between 1887 and 1889 led by the architects Gerster Béla and Markó Gusztáv.
After the Soviet invasion the Czechoslovak president Eduard Benes announced the notorious Government Program of Kassa from the balcony of this building on April 5, 1945 about the deprivation of rights and properties of the native Hungarian population and about their planned expulsion from their homeland. These were the so called Benes decrees.
Miklós Prison, East-Slovakian Museum
Miklušova väznica
Own work, photo by Szilas in Kassa / Public domain
Originally:
prison/jail
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museum
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Miklós Prison, East-Slovakian Museum
History
It is part of the museum. The building can be accessed from the Rodosto House through a passage. It was created in the 17th century by joining two Gothic houses from the first half of the 15th century. It was the town's prison and torture chamber from the 17th century until 1909. The executioner also lived here. The building got its name after Miklós, the infamous executioner of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II. It was the prison of the town's gendarmerie from 1872 to 1909. Afterwards it became part of the Rákóczi Museum of Upper Hungary with an exhibition of town and guild history.
House of the Captains-in-Chief, Museum of Technology
Slovenské technické múzeum
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military headquarters / administration, barracks
Currently:
museum
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House of the Captains-in-Chief, Museum of Technology
History
The building was gradually created from four separate Gothic burgher's houses. It gained its final Baroque form in the 18th century. It was the seat of the Captain-in-Chief of Upper-Hungary. It was turned into a barracks in 1870.
After Kassa returned to Hungary, a museum of technology was established in the building in 1943. The rich collection came from the Museum of Technology in Budapest. With the Soviet invasion the Czechoslovak administration returned to the Hungarian town. The museum was reopened in 1947 as Slovak Technical Museum. The Slovaks keep quiet about the fact on the museum's homepage, that it was also established by the Hungarians, they just state that it was established in 1947.
former Imperial and Royal Military Headquarters
Východoslovenské múzeum - Storočia v umení / Príroda Karpát
Originally:
military headquarters / administration
Currently:
museum
Note:
Directorate of the East-Slovakian Museum
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former Imperial and Royal Military Headquarters
History
It was built in 1908 in eclectic, Art-Nouveau style for the military headquarters. Now it is the office of the East-Slovakian Museum and the District of Kassa.
Lower Gate, Underground Excavation Site
History
In the 13th century during the reign of the House of Árpád in Hungary, a rectangular gatehouse was built. During the reign of King Sigismund of Hungary (1387-1438) another gate was added with a tower a bit to the south. During the reign of King Matthias of Hungary (1458-1490) a half-round barbican was built in front of the wall, which could be accessed through a bridge. Cannons could be placed on the barbican to defend the town.
Jakab Palace
History
The palace was built next to the bridge of the Mill-dich in Venetian Gothic style. The architect Jakab Árpád built the palace in memory of King Matthias of Hungary. There is a plaque on its wall with the following inscription in Hungarian language:
"The memory of Matthias, the just king, lives forever in the grateful heart of the community of Kassa".
House and Plaque of Márai Sándor, Márai Exhibition
Pamätná výstava Sándora Máraia
Originally:
house
Currently:
museum
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House and Plaque of Márai Sándor, Márai Exhibition
History
In 1915 Márai Sándor moved to this house. In fact he was living in Budapest in a student dorm. The Márai Exhibition was opened on January 22, 2019.
Museum of Löffler Béla
History
Löffler Béla was a sculptor born in Kassa in 1906. He died in 1990 and left his collection on the town. He made the Rákóczi relief on the wall of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, but his statues and reliefs can be found all across east Slovakia.
The building has been a gallery of contemporary art since 1993, where the collection of Löffler Béla can also be seen.
The museum uses the Slovakized name of the artist. The Hungarians were forced to Slovakize their name after World War II. The authentic Hungarian name Béla was Slovakized to Vojtech.
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In the Battle of Rozgony in 1312 the burghers of Kassa helped King Charles I of Hungary to victory over the united army of the Aba family and Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9, because previously the king protected the town from the tyranny of the oligarchs. The construction of the Gothic cathedral dedicated to St. Elisabeth of Hungary started in 1374. In 1412 the Pentapolitana, the alliance of the five most important free royal towns of northern Hungary, was created with the leadership of Kassa. During the reign of King Matthias of Hungary, Kassa was one of the largest European towns with its population of 10 thousand. During the 17th century Kassa was the center of the Hungarian uprisings against the Habsburg emperor and also the starting point of the campaigns of the Hungarian princes of Transylvania against Vienna within the Kingdom of Hungary. It was also the center of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1703 and 1711 led by Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II. The remains of the prince and his companions in exile, brought home from Rodosto (Turkey) in 1906, were placed in the crypt of the St. Elisabeth Cathedral. In 1918 the Czechoslovak army invaded the predominantly Hungarian town, tore down the memorial of the Hungarian War of Independence and fired at the peacefully protesting crowd. Afterwards Kassa was attached to the newly created Czechoslovakia. In 1945 the Czechoslovak president Benes announced his decrees on the persecution and the deprivation of properties of the Hungarian and German people from the balcony of the seat of the former Aba\u00faj-Torna County, as a result of which there are hardly any Hungarians left in the town.","nameorigin":" The town's name comes from a Hungarian name starting with \u0022Ka\u0022, maybe Kasa.","history":"#1|@#3|@1230|It was mentioned for the first time.@#5|@after 1242|During the Mongol invasion the small Hungarian settlement was destroyed. Afterwards King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary invited German settlers to the area.@#6|@September 1311|The oligarch Aba Am\u00e1d\u00e9 wanted to take over Kassa. He arrived in the town with his sons and followers. A mass brawl broke out and the citizens killed the oligarch and captured and imprisoned his sons, J\u00e1nos and Demeter.@October 3, 1311|The king, Charles I of Hungary supported the town and the sons of Am\u00e1d\u00e9 had to promise not to bother Kassa and to return the arbitrarily occupied royal properties (including the counties of Aba\u00faj and Zempl\u00e9n). But after they were released, the sons swore loyalty to the mightiest oligarch, Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9 instead.@June 12, 1312|The battle of Rozgony. The united armies of the Abas and Cs\u00e1k M\u00e1t\u00e9 besieged Kassa. G\u00f6rgey Istv\u00e1n convinced the Saxons of Szepes to join the king. The army of the oligarchs abandoned the siege and took position on a nearby hill. The king attacked and won with the help of the citizens of Kassa, who joined the battle in a crutial moment.@around 1341|The Gothic chapel of St. Michael south of the dome was built as a funerary chapel.@1342|The town was put under the jurisdiction of the Master of Treasury, together with the towns of Buda, Pest, B\u00e1rtfa, Eperjes, Nagyszombat, Pozsony \u00e9s Sopron. They could appeal to the court of the Master of Treasury in civil affairs. This jurisdiction was abolished in 1848, by that time it included 28 towns.@1347|Kassa became a free royal town thanks to King Louis I of Hungary.@1374|The country assembly in Kassa acknowledged the inheritance of the throne by the king's daughter.@1374-1520|The construction of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth. King Sigismund and King Matthias supported it financially. The southern tower was left unfinished. The most important architect was Kassai Istv\u00e1n.@1412|The 5 most important free royal towns made an alliance under the name Pentapolitana, these were: Kassa, Eperjes, L\u0151cse, Kisszeben, B\u00e1rtfa. The purpose of the alliance was to regulate trade. The leading town was Kassa.@1440|After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for L\u00e1szl\u00f3, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title \u0022Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa\u0022, and gave him the castle of Z\u00f3lyom.@1440-1441|The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary, including Kassa. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).@1441|Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 I of Hungary supported also by Hunyadi J\u00e1nos tried to liberate Kassa from Jiskra in vain.@1449|Hunyadi J\u00e1nos sent Sz\u00e9kely Tam\u00e1s against Jiskra, whose army was crushed in an ambush by Jiskra on the 5th of September under Kassa. Jiskra built a new fortress, named Szepsi, 22 kilometers southwest of Kassa. Hunyady J\u00e1nos besieged and captured the fortress. Soon Polish emissaries arrived and mediated a peace between the enemies.@1452|The Diet (Parliament) in Pozsony put Kassa, L\u0151cse and B\u00e1rtfa under the protection of Cillei Ulrik, the great rival of Hunyadi J\u00e1nos. The prelude of this was that Hunyadi J\u00e1nos led a successful campaign at the end of 1451 against the Hussites.@1453|Captain in Chief Hunyadi J\u00e1nos crushed the army of Talafus, a Hussite commander under Jiskra, outside the walls of L\u0151cse. The Parliament of Hungary paid a ransom for the castles and towns still in Jiskra's hands, afterwards Jiskra left the country. But Jiskra's commanders continued to plunder Hungary. Kassa's Slavic name, \u0022Kossicze\u0022, Ko\u0161ice comes from the time of the Hussite marauders. Many Rusin and Polish shepherds came to settle in the neighborhood these days.@1455|Baron Cillei Ulrik, the rival of Hunyadi J\u00e1nos called in Jiskra again, and soon much of northern Hungary fell in his hands.@1462|At the end of the war that King Matthias of Hungary had waged against the Hussites since 1458, Jiskra swore loyalty to the king and handed over the castles he still held. Afterwards Jiskra fought in the service of King Matthias until his death.@1458-1490|The reign of Matthias Corvinus. Kassa, with its 10 thousand inhabitants was among the largest towns of Europe.@1491|After the death of King Matthias, Prince Albert of Poland held Kassa under siege for half a year without success. Albert advanced to the field of R\u00e1kos near Pest to take the throne of Hungary from his brother Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 II. But the armies of Kinizsi P\u00e1l and B\u00e1thory Istv\u00e1n beat him out of the country, and he had to resign from his demand for compensation.@#8|@1527|Kassa was occupied by King Ferdinand I from King Szapolyai J\u00e1nos.@December 4, 1536|Szapolyai J\u00e1nos captured Kassa.@#9|@1551|Ferdinand took Kassa from Szapolyai J\u00e1nos.@1556|A fire devastated the town, the Dome of St. Elisabeth also burned down.@#10|@1596-1700|The town became the seat of the Bishopric of Eger, after Eger was occupied by the Ottomans.@#13|@November 11, 1604|Bocskai Istv\u00e1n marched in to Kassa.@November 12, 1604|Bocskai Istv\u00e1n called for the nobility to join the uprising in a manifesto from Kassa. The oppressed peasants and the citizens, fed up with the lootings of the mercenaries and the Counter-Reformation, the nobility and many barons (most of them Protestants) answered the call.@December 3, 1604|The Imperial General Basta held Kassa under siege for three days in vain.@November 20, 1604|Bethlen G\u00e1bor arrived in Kassa with the symbols of rule sent by the Sultan (caftan, hat, banner, mace) to Bocskai Istv\u00e1n.@#14|@June 23, 1606|The Peace of Vienna ended the Bocskai uprising. Kassa returned under Habsburg rule. The treaty secured the fundamental rights of the Estates of Hungary and the religious freedom. Szatm\u00e1r, Bereg and Ugocsa counties were attached to the Principality of Transylvania.@December 29, 1606|Bocskai Istv\u00e1n, Prince of Transylvania died in Kassa of edema. In his political testimony he stood for the maintenance of the independent Transylvania, as it was the fundament of the future unification of Hungary between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires.@#15|@September 5, 1619|Kassa opened its gates for the army of Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania. Bethlen announced to go to war in his manifesto from Debrecen. He tried to convince the Estates of Hungary to join him against the Habsburg Emperor with a success.@September 20, 1619|Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania marched into Kassa.@November 30, 1619|The Habsburg-friendly Homonnay Drugeth Gy\u00f6rgy attacked the heartland of Bethlen with Polish mercenaries, while the Prince was besieging Vienna. Homonnay told Kassa to surrender, but the town rejected. After having been defeated, Homonnay left the country in the middle of December.@May 8, 1621|Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania returned to Kassa, because of the Imperial counter-offensive and the betrayals.@#16|@1621|The Peace of Nikolsburg. The Emperor restored the religious freedom. 7 Hungarian counties were attached to the Principality of Transylvania, including Kassa (in Aba\u00faj County).@September 10, 1623|Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania called the Estates of the seven counties to Kassa, to ask them for military supplies.@March 1, 1626|The wedding of Bethlen G\u00e1bor and Catherine of Brandenburg was held in Kassa in the L\u0151cse-house built in the 14th century. Originally it was the house of Szathm\u00e1ry Gy\u00f6rgy, but in 1542 Thurz\u00f3 Elek left it in his will to the town of L\u0151cse, and afterwards it was used to host merchants.@1629|The death of Bethlen G\u00e1bor. Kassa returned under Habsburg rule soon after.@#17|@March 12, 1644|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I of Transylvania solemnly marched into Kassa. Afterwards his army advanced to the valley of V\u00e1g.@May 1644|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I of Transylvania retreated from the V\u00e1g River to the line of the Tisza River before the advancing Imperial army. He sent significant reinforcements to the defense of the towns of Kassa, Eperjes, Tokaj and S\u00e1rospatak.@June, 1644|The counter-attacking Imperial forces reached Kassa, weakened by the organized resistance of the peasantry. The defenders of the town attacked them so they got between hell and high water. The Imperials burned villages as revenge.@June 14, 1644|The defenders of Kassa charged at the ramparts of the Imperials.@June 16, 1644|Upon the arrival of the Transylvanian army of Kem\u00e9ny J\u00e1nos the Imperials retreated.@January 18, 1644|In Kassa R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I was declared Prince of Hungary by the country assembly. He then joined the Swedish army besieging Brno, but the Sultan forbade him to continue his campaign against the Habsburgs.@Easter 1644|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy of Hungary founded the Lutheran Church in the Protestant town of Kassa.@#18|@December 16, 1645|In the Peace of Linz Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I of Transylvania gained the ownership of Aba\u00faj County and Kassa until his death.@1647|Kassa became the permanent seat of Aba\u00faj County.@1648|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I of Transylvania died, Kassa returned to the Emperor.@1657|Kisdy Benedek, the Bishop of Eger and Provost of J\u00e1sz\u00f3 founded a Jesuit college and a printing press. The university was expelled by the Czechoslovaks in 1921.@#19|@1670-76|The Imperials built a citadel south of the town.@#20|@1671|The once Jesuit, now Norbertine Trinity church was built by Emperor Leopold I from the money B\u00e1thory Zs\u00f3fia paid for the life of his son, R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc I, after the anti-Habsburg Wessel\u00e9nyi-conspiracy was revealed.@#21|@September 14,1672|The fugitives (under the command of Petr\u0151czy Istv\u00e1n, Szepessy P\u00e1l and Szuhay M\u00e1ty\u00e1s) defeated the Imperial army of Spankau south of Kassa.@October 1672.|The hajd\u00fa soldiers accepted the mercy of the Emperor, and the thus diminished army of the fugitives suffered a decisive defeat from the unified armies of Spankau and Cobb at Gy\u00f6rke, east of Kassa.@#22|@July 20, 1682|The kuruc army captured the citadel of Kassa in a one-hour fight with a sudden attack. Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre and his kuruc army rushed to lay siege to Kassa.@August 14, 1682|When the allied Turkish army of 30 thousand soldiers arrived, Kassa surrendered to Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre.@January 11, 1683|Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre called for a country assembly in Kassa. He offered peace to Emperor Leopold I. He demanded the 13 counties that were already under his command, and the title of \u0022Prince of the Parts of Hungary\u0022. In exchange he promised to be loyal to the Emperor and join him against the Ottomans. He was rejected.@#23|@#24|@October 15, 1685|The pasha of V\u00e1rad arrested Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre who was asking for his support. The Turks offered him to Leopold I in exchange for peace, but the Imperial emissaries laughed and mocked them, because by that time the rule of Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly was broken and the Hungarians did not trust the Turks any longer. Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly was transported to Belgrad in chains. The Turks, regretting their error, soon released him, and treated him as a Prince, but they weren't able to restore his reputation and power.@October 17-25, 1685|Upon receiving the news of the arrest of Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, Kassa surrendered to the Imperial General Caprara after a short siege. The Imperials occupied the kuruc castles one after another, because noone believed in the resistance any more. By the 5th of November, only Munk\u00e1cs castle held out, and only because it was defended by Zr\u00ednyi Ilona, the wife of Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre. Most of the former soldiers of Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly joined the Imperial forces and helped to liberate the rest of Hungary from the Turks forever.@#25|@#27|@October 24, 1704|Kassa surrendered to Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II. The town became his headquarters.@September 29 - October 11, 1706|Esze Tam\u00e1s defended Kassa against the Imperial siege.@1710-11|The plague devastated in the town.@April 27, 1711|Esterh\u00e1zy D\u00e1niel handed over the town to the Imperials at the command of K\u00e1rolyi S\u00e1ndor, because he thought it was the will of Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi.@1713|Emperor Charles III ordered the deconstruction of the citadel.@1722|The Baroque Immaculate statue was raised in place of the scaffold.@1788|The first Hungarian language magazine, the \u0022Magyar Museum\u0022 was published in Kassa. It was published by the Hungarian Society of Kassa founded in 1787 by Kazinczy Ferenc, Bar\u00f3ti Szab\u00f3 D\u00e1vid and Bats\u00e1nyi J\u00e1nos.@1802|The town became episcopal seat.@February 15, 1833|The premiere of B\u00e1nk b\u00e1n, the drama of Katona J\u00f3zsef was in the theatre of Kassa.@#28|@December 11, 1848|After the first battle of Kassa near Budam\u00e9r the Imperial army of Schlik occupied the town.@January 4, 1849|In the second battle of Kassa near Barca the Hungarians tried to retake the town in vain.@February 9, 1849|As the finale of the winter campaign, G\u00f6rgey Art\u00far liberated the town from the Imperials and united with the army of Klapka Gy\u00f6rgy.@March 3, 1849|The troops of Georg Ramberg captured the town but in April it was retaken by the Hungarians.@June 24, 1849|The Russian army, intervening on the side of the Habsburg Empire invaded the town.@1860|The town got railway connection with Miskolc.@#30|@1891|A horse-drawn tram was built.@1897-1899|The current building of the theatre, planned by L\u00e1ng Adolf in eclectic style, was constructed.@1900|The famous Hungarian writer M\u00e1rai S\u00e1ndor was born in Kassa.@1903|Jakab \u00c1rp\u00e1d built the Jakab Palace in Venetian Gothic style in memory of King Matthias of Hungary.@1914|The tram was electrified.@1906|The remains of Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II and his followers in exile were placed in the crypt of the St. Elisabeth Dome in four marble tombs.@#31|@#32|@December 29, 1918|The Czechoslovaks invaded Kassa. The invaders put down the short-lived Slovak Republic of Vladimir Dvorts\u00e1k, which was independent from Czechoslovakia, by force.@#34|@June 6, 1919|The army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic liberated Kassa from the Czechoslovak invaders.@#36|@#37|@November 2, 1938|Kassa returned to Hungary according to the First Vienna Award.@1940-43|The construction of the Rodost\u00f3 House. One half of the house of Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II was transported from Rodost\u00f3 (now Tekirda\u011f, Turkey) to Kassa. After the fall of the Hungarian war of independence in 1711, the Prince lived in Turky, in the town of Rodost\u00f3 (Rodosto) in exile until his death. The house was rebuilt in Kassa between 1940 and 1943 based on the plans of Lux K\u00e1lm\u00e1n. It was opened to the public only in 1991 because of the Sovjet invasion and the resurrection of the chauvinistic and hungarophobe Czechoslovakia.@June 26, 1941|Kassa was bombed by the Soviet air force. 29 people died and many injured. In response Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union. Earlier the bombing was considered to have been a false-flag mission of the Germans, to make Hungary join their war against the Soviet Union. In reality the Soviets wanted to bomb a German radio station in Eperjes (which was then part of Slovakia), north of Kassa, but mistook the town from the air.@#41|@#42|@April 5, 1945|The Czechoslovak president Benes announced his government program from Kassa, these are called the Benes-decrees. It deprived the Hungarians of all their rights and planned their expulsion from their homeland. The announcement was made in the old county hall of Aba\u00faj-Torna.@after 1945|The town's Hungarian population was expelled, their properties were confiscated without any compensation, and Kassa was repopulated by Slovaks. One of many internment camps where the Czechoslovaks gathered the native Hungarians and Germans they wanted to expel because of their nationality operated in Kassa.@#43|@#44|&"},"palaces":[{"palaceId":23,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"","settlement_HU":"B\u00e1rca, Kassa","settlement_LO":"Barca, Ko\u0161ice ","address":"Abovsk\u00e1 26, Barca","listorder":100,"gps_lat":"48.6771470000","gps_long":"21.2663160000","oldcounty":8,"country":2,"division":4,"cond":3,"entrance":2,"func":0,"display":0,"homepage":"","openinghours":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Tizo1 \/ CC BY (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Barczay_Manor_House.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - Barca Barczay Manor House\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/62\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Barczay_Manor_House.jpg\/512px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Barczay_Manor_House.jpg\u0022\/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Barczay_Manor_House.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ETizo1\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"B\u00e1rczay Manor","seolink":"barca-barca-barczay-manor","description":"The manor house is under reconstruction and they plan to open a 5-start hotel in the building.","history":"1282|The B\u00e1rczay family acquired the land.@1670|The Hungarian inhabitants died of cholera. Slavs were settled down.@17th century|A Renaissance manor was built on the foundations of the old castle.@1840|B\u00e1rczay J\u00f3zsef reconstructed the manor in Classicist style. Later a neo-Renaissance tower was attached to the building.@1945|The owners had to flee before the Soviet invasion."},{"palaceId":24,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Miestny \u00farad mestsk\u00e1 \u010das\u0165 Ko\u0161ice - Barca","settlement_HU":"B\u00e1rca, Kassa","settlement_LO":"Barca, Ko\u0161ice ","address":"Abovsk\u00e1 32, 040 17 Barca","listorder":100,"gps_lat":"48.6784560000","gps_long":"21.2647610000","oldcounty":8,"country":2,"division":4,"cond":2,"entrance":2,"func":0,"display":0,"homepage":"http:\/\/www.barca.sk\/","openinghours":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Tizo1 \/ CC BY (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Zichy_Manor_House.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - Barca Zichy Manor House\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/18\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Zichy_Manor_House.jpg\/512px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Zichy_Manor_House.jpg\u0022\/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Barca_Zichy_Manor_House.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ETizo1\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Zichy Manor","seolink":"barca-barca-zichy-manor","description":"The municipal office of one of the districts of Kassa occupies the manor house.","history":"15th century|A two-story Renaissance manor was built.@1899|The manor gained its present day form from the architect Jakab \u00c1rp\u00e1d.@1936|The Zichy family owned the manor until 1936."}],"sights":[{"sightId":258,"townId":17,"active":2,"name_LO":"D\u00f3m sv\u00e4tej Al\u017ebety","address":"Hlavn\u00e1 30\/54, 040 01 Ko\u0161ice","mapdata":"1|1042|759","gps_lat":"48.7202890000","gps_long":"21.2581340000","religion":1,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"http:\/\/domsvalzbety.sk\/","openinghours":"http:\/\/domsvalzbety.sk\/?page_id=3369","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Szent-Erzsebet-szekesegyhaz-Kassa-251","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/szent-erzsebet-szekesegyhaz-1\/\n","picture":"own","picture_ref":"","name":"Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary ","seolink":"cathedral-of-st-elisabeth-of-hungary","note":"","history":"The Gothic cathedral is dedicated to St. Elisabeth of Hungary, who lived between 1207 and 1231. There is an excellent view from the northern tower of the cathedral.@After the former church on the same location burned down in 1378, the construction of the cathedral was decided. The construction finished in 1520. The Matthias Tower, the Royal Stairway and the sanctuary was built in 1461. The Holy Cross Chapel and the Virgin and Child with St. Anne Chapel were built in 1467. The Chapel of Virgin Mary and the Chapel of St. Joseph, the later of which did not survive, were built in 1477.@During his uprising Bocska Istv\u00e1n gave the church to the Lutherans in 1604, they used it until 1671. The Lutherans used the church also between 1682 and 1687 thanks to Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, leader of the kuruc insurgents.@The northern tower gained its final form in 1775, while the never-finished southern Matthias Tower gained its current form in 1904.@The winged main altar of the church was made between 1474 and 1477.@The diocese of Kassa was established in 1804 and the church became a cathedral. Previously it was a parish church.@The church was renovated between 1877 and 1896 according to the plans of the Hungarian architect Steindl Imre.@In 1906 the remains of Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II, brought back from Rodosto (Edirne, Turkey), were placed in the lower church. Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II led the Hungarian War of Independence against the Habsburg Empire between 1703 and 1711. After its fall he rather went in exile than accept the mercy of the emperor. 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It was expanded at the end of the 15th century at the initiative of Szathm\u00e1ry Gy\u00f6rgy. The chapel was renovated between 1902 and 1904 led by the architect Schulek Frigyes."},{"sightId":260,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Kostol nanebovzatia Panny M\u00e1rie - dominik\u00e1ni","address":"Dominik\u00e1nske n\u00e1mestie 594, 040 01 Ko\u0161ice","mapdata":"1|856|715","gps_lat":"48.7207780000","gps_long":"21.2550020000","religion":1,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Domonkos-templom-es-kolostor-Kassa-11","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/domonkos-templom-es-kolostor\/\r","picture":"own","picture_ref":"","name":"Dominican Church of the Assumption","seolink":"dominican-church-of-the-assumption","note":"","history":"It was already standing in the 1250's. The church was reconstructed in Gothic style in 1437. In 1553 the Calvinists of the town attacked and plundered the monastery, afterwards the Dominicans left Kassa. They returned in 1699 and restored the church by the year 1767 in Baroque style. It gained its current form in 1894."},{"sightId":261,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Semin\u00e1rny kostol sv. Antona Padu\u00e1nskeho","address":"Hlavn\u00e1 89","mapdata":"1|950|426","gps_lat":"48.7238850000","gps_long":"21.2566200000","religion":1,"oldtype":"9","newtype":"9","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Ferences-templom-es-kolostor-Kassa-958","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/ferences-templom-es-kolostor\/\r","picture":"own","picture_ref":"","name":"St. Anthony of Padua Franciscan Seminary Church and Monastery","seolink":"st-anthony-of-padua-franciscan-seminary-church-and-monastery","note":"","history":"The Per\u00e9nyi family built the church between 1370 and 1400 for the Franciscans in Gothic style. 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The monastery was once a royal house (domus regia), later it became the seat of the Captain-in-Chiefs of Upper Hungary. The Hungarian princes of Transylvania (Bocskai Istv\u00e1n, Bethlen G\u00e1bor and R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy I) also stayed here with their court during their campaigns against the Habsburg emperors.@The Jesuit University founded by Bishop Kisdy Benedek of Eger in 1657 also worked in the building of the monastery. The founding diploma of the Academy of Kassa was written by Kisdy Benedek on February 26, 1657. Emperor Leopold I confirmed it in his diploma on August 7, 1660, and the academy was opened. Sorrowfully Kisdy could not live to see it, because he died on June 22. lt became Royal Academy from 1776. The academy ceased to exist in 1921 after the Czechoslovak invasion.@In 1787 Kazinczy Ferenc and Bats\u00e1nyi J\u00e1nos visited the poet and priest Bar\u00f3ti Szab\u00f3 D\u00e1vid, who tought here. They decided to establish the Hungarian Association of Kassa, which launched the first Hungarian-language literary journal, the Magyar Museum, in 1788."},{"sightId":263,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Premon\u0161tr\u00e1tske gymn\u00e1zium","address":"Kov\u00e1\u010dska 28","mapdata":"1|1074|555","gps_lat":"48.7225170000","gps_long":"21.2588630000","religion":1,"oldtype":"74","newtype":"74","homepage":"https:\/\/www.kovacska.sk\/","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Premontrei-Gimnazium-Kassa-3050","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"","picture_ref":"","name":"Norbertine Grammar School ","seolink":"norbertine-grammar-school","note":"Grammar school.","history":"The Jesuits built a Baroque building for the grammar school in 1733. 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In 1706 Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II gave the church back to the Calvinists once again, but they lost it after the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1711."},{"sightId":268,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"\u0160pit\u00e1lsky kostol sv\u00e4t\u00e9ho Ducha","address":"Ju\u017en\u00e1 trieda, 040 01 Ko\u0161ice","mapdata":"1|1241|1223","gps_lat":"48.7148340000","gps_long":"21.2616140000","religion":1,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Ispotaly-Kassa-1908","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kostol_sv%C3%A4t%C3%A9ho_Ducha.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - Kostol sv\u00e4t\u00e9ho Ducha\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d3\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kostol_sv%C3%A4t%C3%A9ho_Ducha.jpg\/512px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kostol_sv%C3%A4t%C3%A9ho_Ducha.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kostol_sv%C3%A4t%C3%A9ho_Ducha.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Holy Spirit Church and Hospital ","seolink":"holy-spirit-church-and-hospital","note":"","history":"The hospital and the church were mentioned for the first time in 1283. 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It received permission for granting indulgence from Pope Clement XIII in 1762 for the feast of St. Rosalia."},{"sightId":270,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Kostol na Calvary","address":"Na Kalv\u00e1rii 2234, 040 01 Ko\u0161ice","mapdata":"2|294|609","gps_lat":"48.7279780000","gps_long":"21.2336200000","religion":1,"oldtype":"3","newtype":"3","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Kalvaria-Kassa-1835","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kalv%C3%A1ria_-a.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - Kalv\u00e1ria -a\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fe\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kalv%C3%A1ria_-a.jpg\/512px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kalv%C3%A1ria_-a.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Kalv%C3%A1ria_-a.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Calvary","seolink":"calvary","note":"","history":"It is situated on a hill northwest of the town. It is the place for gaining indulgence for the people of Kassa. The Jesuits built it between 1736 and 1758. It was a military storage between 1773 and 1820. In 1826 Pope Leo XII allowed full indulgence for its visitors. 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In 1673 the Habsburg ruler took it from the Calvinists and afterwards it was used for storing military equipment. In 1682 Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre gave it back to the Calvinists. In 1698 the church was given to Ursuline nuns from Pozsony. In 1706 Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc II gave the church back to the Calvinists once again, but they lost it after the fall of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1711."},{"sightId":273,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Kostol reformovanej kres\u0165anskej circus","address":"Hrn\u010diarska 9, 040 01 Star\u00e9 Mesto","mapdata":"1|1142|526","gps_lat":"48.7227630000","gps_long":"21.2599450000","religion":2,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"https:\/\/refkassa.sk\/","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Reformatus-templom-Kassa-970","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/reformatus-templom-27\/\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_kalv%C3%ADnsky_kostol_-a.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - kalv\u00ednsky kostol -a\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ea\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_kalv%C3%ADnsky_kostol_-a.jpg\/256px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_kalv%C3%ADnsky_kostol_-a.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_kalv%C3%ADnsky_kostol_-a.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Calvinist Church ","seolink":"calvinist-church","note":"","history":"Now it is the church of the only Hungarian Calvinist congregation of Kassa. It was built between 1805 and 1810. The tower was built in 1853."},{"sightId":274,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Evanjelick\u00fd kostol","address":"Mlynsk\u00e1 23","mapdata":"1|1209|688","gps_lat":"48.7211180000","gps_long":"21.2610010000","religion":3,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"http:\/\/ecavke.sk\/","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Evangelikus-templom-Kassa-971","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"own","picture_ref":"","name":"Lutheran Church ","seolink":"lutheran-church","note":"","history":"It was built between 1804 and 1816 in Classicist style."},{"sightId":275,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Urbanova ve\u017ea","address":"Hlavn\u00e1, 040 01 Star\u00e9 Mesto","mapdata":"1|1040|721","gps_lat":"48.7206640000","gps_long":"21.2581620000","religion":0,"oldtype":"13","newtype":"13","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Orban---Voros---torony-Kassa-287","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/szent-orban-torony\/\r","picture":"own","picture_ref":"","name":"St. Urban Tower ","seolink":"st-urban-tower","note":"","history":"The 45-metres high tower wears the name of St. Urban, the guardian of the grape growers of Kassa. Lindner M\u00e1rton, the court architect of Price Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania, constructed the tower in 1628. The arcades were built in 1912 and some of the tombstones found during the renovation of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary were placed there."},{"sightId":276,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Zvon Urban","address":"Hlavn\u00e9 n\u00e1mestie 4-3, 040 01 Ko\u0161ice","mapdata":"1|1022|727","gps_lat":"48.7206340000","gps_long":"21.2579150000","religion":0,"oldtype":"38","newtype":"38","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Orban-harang-Kassa-288","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/orban-torony-harangja\/\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022J\u00e1nos Korom Dr. \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zvon_Urban_III.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Zvon Urban III\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7c\/Zvon_Urban_III.jpg\/512px-Zvon_Urban_III.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zvon_Urban_III.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EJ\u00e1nos Korom Dr.\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Bell of St. Urban ","seolink":"bell-of-st-urban","note":"","history":"The bell of St. Urban weighing 7,200 kilograms served in the Urban-tower until 1966, when it fell down and broke due to a fire. 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It served in the northern tower of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary until 1926, when it was replaced by a new one."},{"sightId":278,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Alzbetina 2","mapdata":"1|1001|775","gps_lat":"48.7200920000","gps_long":"21.2574740000","religion":1,"oldtype":"6","newtype":"84","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Kisdyanum-Kassa-3046","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022jeffwarder \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Albeztina_street_in_Kosice_(Kassa)_-_panoramio.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Albeztina street in Kosice (Kassa) - panoramio\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/22\/Albeztina_street_in_Kosice_%28Kassa%29_-_panoramio.jpg\/512px-Albeztina_street_in_Kosice_%28Kassa%29_-_panoramio.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Albeztina_street_in_Kosice_(Kassa)_-_panoramio.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003Ejeffwarder\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Kisdy\u00e1num","seolink":"kisdyanum","note":"","history":"The building was reconstructed in the 17th century in Renaissance style by Bishop Kisdy Benedek of Eger, who established a seminary in the building for training priests. 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Karola Boromejsk\u00e9ho","address":"Hlavn\u00e1 78\/91, 040 01 Ko\u0161ice","mapdata":"1|934|385","gps_lat":"48.7244720000","gps_long":"21.2562750000","religion":1,"oldtype":"74","newtype":"74","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Konviktus-Kassa-2919","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/konviktus\/\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_91_(1).jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - pam. budova - Hlavn\u00e1 91 (1)\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6e\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_91_%281%29.jpg\/512px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_91_%281%29.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_91_(1).jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Convict","seolink":"convict","note":"","history":"It was built in 1657. In 1652 Balassa Zsuzsanna established the convict for educating young Catholic nobles. The building was reconstructed in Classicist style in the 19th century. 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These were the so called Benes decrees."},{"sightId":289,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Hlavn\u00e1 70, 040 01 Star\u00e9 Mesto","mapdata":"1|931|529","gps_lat":"48.7228750000","gps_long":"21.2563120000","religion":0,"oldtype":"11","newtype":"53","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Regi-megyehaza-Kassa-2913","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_70.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - pam. budova - Hlavn\u00e1 70\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_70.jpg\/256px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_70.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_pam._budova_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_70.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Old County Hall ","seolink":"old-county-hall","note":"","history":"In the 17th century Kassa became the seat of Aba\u00faj County. 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It has been the rector's office of the Pavel Josef Saf\u00e1rik University of Kassa since 1959."},{"sightId":314,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Rotunda","address":"Zbrojnicn\u00e1 6","mapdata":"1|821|354","gps_lat":"48.7248640000","gps_long":"21.2544200000","religion":0,"oldtype":"110","newtype":"24","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Szarazmalom-Kassa-3194","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Jan Starec \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zbrojni%C4%8Dn%C3%A1_ulica_-_panoramio_(1).jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Zbrojni\u010dn\u00e1 ulica - panoramio (1)\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/63\/Zbrojni%C4%8Dn%C3%A1_ulica_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg\/512px-Zbrojni%C4%8Dn%C3%A1_ulica_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zbrojni%C4%8Dn%C3%A1_ulica_-_panoramio_(1).jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EJan Starec\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Dry Mill ","seolink":"dry-mill","note":"","history":"The building had functioned as a dry mill already in 1604. It was driven by horses. Later it became the studio of Csord\u00e1k Lajos and Hal\u00e1sz-Hradik Elem\u00e9r, who were Hungarian painters. They have a memorial plaque on the building."},{"sightId":315,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Konzervat\u00f3rium","address":"TIMONOVA 2","mapdata":"1|967|959","gps_lat":"48.7180140000","gps_long":"21.2569350000","religion":0,"oldtype":"74","newtype":"74","homepage":"https:\/\/www.konke.sk\/","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Varosi-Nepiskola-Kassa-3192","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"","picture_ref":"","name":"Town School ","seolink":"town-school","note":"Conservatorium\u00a0(music school).","history":"It was built in 1891 in eclectic style. During the Czechoslovak occupation between 1918 and 1938, this was the only authorized Hungarian-language primary school in Kassa, which had Hungarian majority. In 1941, when the town became part of Hungary again, a plaque was placed in memory of this fact. 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The members could use the name prefix \u0022Vit\u00e9z\u0022, which means valiant soldier in Hungarian."},{"sightId":318,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"Okresn\u00e9 riadite\u013estvo HaZZ","address":"Poziarnick\u00e1 4 ","mapdata":"1|1335|1377","gps_lat":"48.7132870000","gps_long":"21.2632020000","religion":0,"oldtype":"60","newtype":"60","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Tuzoltolaktanya-Kassa-2973","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Po%C5%BEiarnick%C3%A1_4_-a1.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - Po\u017eiarnick\u00e1 4 -a1\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/de\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Po%C5%BEiarnick%C3%A1_4_-a1.jpg\/512px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Po%C5%BEiarnick%C3%A1_4_-a1.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Po%C5%BEiarnick%C3%A1_4_-a1.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Fireman Barracks ","seolink":"fireman-barracks","note":"","history":"It was built between 1927 and 1928 according to the plans of Oelschlanger Lajos and Bosk\u00f3 G\u00e9za Zolt\u00e1n."},{"sightId":319,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Hlavn\u00e1 80","mapdata":"1|915|466","gps_lat":"48.7236620000","gps_long":"21.2560550000","religion":0,"oldtype":"50","newtype":"81","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Stahlhausen-palota-Kassa-2915","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ladislav Luppa \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_80.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Ko\u0161ice - Hlavn\u00e1 80\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4f\/Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_80.jpg\/256px-Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_80.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ko%C5%A1ice_-_Hlavn%C3%A1_80.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003ELadislav Luppa\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Stahlhausen Palace ","seolink":"stahlhausen-palace","note":"","history":"It was built in the second half of the 17th century in late Renaissance style. 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On March 15, 1919 the Hungarian majority of Kassa held a commemoration at the statue and also peacefully protested against the invasion. During the night of March 16 the Czechoslovaks tore down the Hungarian sign boards on the main street and shot on those who dared to look out of the window. Next morning the Czechoslovaks cut off the head of the statue of the Hungarian freedom fighter with a saw then tore down the entire statue. Soon a large crowd gathered at the statue to protest against the vandalism. One of the Czechoslovak soldiers standing guard at the ruins of the statue shot into the crowd. He hit the 37 years-old housewife \u00d6rd\u00f6g Ilona in the forehead and the 13 years-old newspaper seller girl Hervacsics Aranka in the neck. Both of them died. The Italian officers, who were in Kassa to control the invasion, were astonished by the murder. They sent a report to Rome, but nothing happened. On June 4, 1920 the town of Kassa, despite having a massive Hungarian majority, was attached to Czechoslovakia. Since then the Czechoslovaks have managed to get rid of not only the statue but also most of the Hungarian inhabitants of the town."},{"sightId":335,"townId":17,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Alzbetina","mapdata":"1|968|776","gps_lat":"48.7200110000","gps_long":"21.2569040000","religion":0,"oldtype":"38","newtype":"38","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"http:\/\/emlekhelyek.csemadok.sk\/emlekhelyek\/jakoby-gyula-szobra\/\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Gyurika at Hungarian Wikipedia \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jakoby_Gyula_szobor_Kassa.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Jakoby Gyula szobor Kassa\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1f\/Jakoby_Gyula_szobor_Kassa.JPG\/256px-Jakoby_Gyula_szobor_Kassa.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jakoby_Gyula_szobor_Kassa.JPG\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EGyurika at Hungarian Wikipedia\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Statue of Jakoby Gyula","seolink":"statue-of-jakoby-gyula","note":"","history":"Jakoby Gyula (1903-1985) was a famous Hungarian painter, who was born in Kassa. 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