St. Michael Chapel / Kaplnka sv. Michala - Košice (East Slovakia)
N 48° 43.193 E 021° 15.503
34U E 519004 N 5396349
One of jewels of Gothic architecture in Slovakia, medieval St. Michael Chapel (Kaplnka sv. Michala), you can find close to the St. Elizabeth Cathedral in the heart of historic Košice city centre.
Waymark Code: WMJBKG
Location: Košický kraj, Slovakia
Date Posted: 10/25/2013
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One of jewels of Gothic architecture in Slovakia, medieval St. Michael Chapel (Kaplnka sv. Michala), you can find close to the St. Elizabeth Cathedral in the heart of historic Košice city centre.
The Saint Michael Chapel (Slovak: Kaplnka sv. Michala) is a Gothic style chapel in Košice, Slovakia. It was probably erected in the first half of the 14th century. It was built as a cemetery chapel inside the town walls in the place of the present-day park at Hlavná ulica (English: Main Street). The lower part of the chapel was initially an ossarium, the upper one served for offices for the deceased. The chapel served as a Slovak church whereas the St. Elisabeth Cathedral was a German and Hungarian church.
During the rebuilding in the years 1902–1904, they pulled down the northern aisle (it was erected in 1508) and bricked 17 old gravestones (coming from the 14th till 17th century) into the exterior walls of the chapel to save them from destruction. Bad condition of the building was the reason of the complex reconstruction in the years 1998–2006. The reconstructed chapel was consecrated on January 22, 2006 by Košice's archbishop, Alojz Tkác. [wiki]