Lutheran Wooden Church
Drevený artikulárny kostol Kežmarok
Lutheran Wooden Church
Drevený artikulárny kostol Kežmarok
Address:
Hviezdoslavova 328/16, 060 01 Kežmarok
Historical Hungarian county:
Szepes
GPS coordinates:
49.133261, 20.428367
History
The church was built between 1687 and 1717 without any iron nails. According to the tradition Swedish shipwrights carved the wood with their axes.
According to the 26th law article of the year 1681 accepted by the country assembly in Sopron, the Protestants were allowed to build wooden churches, one in each free royal town and two in each county. The churches could be built only outside of the town walls. The churches built according to this legal article were called "articular churches" afterwards. The fact that Protestants could build churches at all against the will of Emperor Leopold I could be thanked to the pressure of the kuruc uprising of Thököly Imre, mainly consisting of Protestant Hungarians and Germans. The strict rules were abolished only in 1791.
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