At the highest point of the Záhorská Lowland (296.9 m above sea level (ASL)) on the sand hill of a partially forested hill above the settlement of Habany there is originally a pilgrimage place with a chapel. The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene was built in 1668 by Imrich Czobor, but at the beginning of the 18th century it was destroyed during the Rákoci Uprising. Today's neoclassical chapel was built at the end of the 19th century. In the past, religious processions stopped at the chapel, which went from Trnava on the pilgrimage to Šaštín. The chapel was robbed and damaged by vandals several times. At present, the pilgrimage to the chapel takes place on Sunday around the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene – 22 July. Source: http://www.putnickemiesta.skContact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Parish of Borský Mikuláš, Cintorínska street no. 421, Borský MikulášTelephone: 034/65 95,292E-mail: borsky-mikulas@ba.ecclesia.sk
In the early Bronze Age (1300 - 1100 BC), people of the velatic culture built a significant hill-fort on the terrace of Kostolec. Fortification system of the hill-fort - a massive rampart and moat has been preserved on the site to this day. In addition to the settlement, skeletal graves of members of the velatic culture were found on Kostolec. In the past, cremation graves of the same period were found in the older part of the present-day village of Ducové and in the localities Veľký diel and Panský jarok. The church was temporarily settled also in the Roman era (2nd to 3rd century AD), while minor findings come from the site. The most significant settlement of the Kostolec in terms of our national history is the Slavic settlement from the 9th to 10th centuries. The built fortification - palisade of oak poles, residential parts - log houses and a church - rotunda are characterized as part of the magnificent court residence of members of the court aristocracy. Up-to-date significative reconstruction gives a good overview of their location in the field. The dissolution of the court can be associated with the ambitions of the Árpáds in expanding the occupied territory at the end of the 10th century. After the definitive destruction of the court, its area was used until the mid- 19th century as a cemetery. On 5 July 1990, on the Feast of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, the first year of the National pilgrimage to Ducová-Kostolec took place. Since this year, pilgrimages are held regularly every year. Source: http://www.ducove.sk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=34 Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic church, Parish of Moravany nad Váhom, Radová street no. 75, 922 21 Moravany nad VáhomTelephone: 033 / 77 47 117
Above the village of Trstín, there lies a historically rare area and pilgrimage site Hájiček with the Church of Our Lady, a wooden belfry, a well and a Calvary. According to the tradition, this site was already known in the 13th century. It is allegedly the oldest patrocinium of the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, as indicated by the archdiocesan schema. The Batthyány canonical visitation of 1782 states that this church was built in 1245, which is confirmed by the inscription in the church: MCCXLV. The late Romanesque foundation of the brick building of single-nave church with an apse as well as the Romanesque semi-circular portal on the south side prove this. At the end of the 17th century (dating 1696 on the chorus), the church in Hájiček village underwent construction modifications. At the end of the 18th century, a statuette of Our Lady of Sorrows, also known as the Gracious Pieta, was placed in a silk robe in a glass cabinet on the altar of Hájiček Church. Hájiček experienced its blossoming especially after 1764, when the statue of the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows was transferred to the newly built church in Šaštín. Since then, thousands of pilgrims from all over Austria-Hungary travelled to the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary to Šaštín, and Trstín (Nádaš) became one of the important stops on the pilgrimage path. In the memorial book of the Nádaš parish priest, Anton Foriš, there are recorded interesting notes about miraculous recoveries associated with this place. In 1793, a rumour spread among people that miraculous recoveries of the sick had occurred in front of the statue of the Sorrows Mother in Hajiček. On 23 April 1794, on command of the vicar, the statue of the Our Lady of Sorrows was transferred to Trnava. The original statue of merciful Pieta was consecrated in June 1923 and returned to its original place to the church in Hájiček. In October 1923, the stone Calvary was ceremonially opened. Pilgrimage site is complemented by a well on a nearby meadow. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Literature:ČIČO, M. (ed.) Calvary in Slovakia. Bratislava : Institute of Monuments, 2002.(SOURCE: PIATROVÁ, A. et al. Pilgrimage sites of Slovakia. Guide. Trnava: Faculty of Arts, University of Trnava, Institute of Christian Culture, 2010). Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Trstín village no. 183, 919 05 TrstínTelephone: 033/5589 281;E-mail: farnost.trstin@abu.skWeb: www.trstin.sk/fara
The original church has only one nave with a segmental-arched sanctuary. The tower is built into the main facade. The interior walls and the vault are decorated with frescoes and decorative paintings. These are mostly works by F. Sogrist from 1778, which depict the individual milestones of the life of St. Francis of Paula. In the sanctuary of the Šamorín church there is a vaulted fresco depicting the meeting of St. Francis of Paulins with the French King Louis XVI. The sick king heard about the ascetic life and healing abilities of the St. Francis and he called him to Tours through the Pope. Long time Francis did not find courage for travelling, but eventually he told the king that neither he nor Lord God could cure him, and all he could do was to prepare him for Christian death. Today's name of the church is the Church of the Virgin Mary's Assumption. The church and a monastery are connected to the sanctuary by a corridor. The builder of the church organ was Ludvig Mooser, the most famous master of that time. We do not know the original composition, but according to well-preserved organ pipes, it is considered that it originally had 20 registers. Later repairs reduced the quality of the instrument. At the end of the millennium, its condition was already so critical that even a reconstruction and a restoration was being considered, not just overhauling it. In 2005 the reconstruction works on the organ were completed and the organ was reconstructed to its original quality. Source: http://www.dokostola.sk/kostol/410271-farsky-kostol-nanebovzatia-panny-marie Contact information:Address: Kláštorná street no. 2, 931 01 ŠamorínParish priest: PaedDr. Mgr. Pavol Myjavec, PhD.Telephone: 031/562 23 61E-mail: samorin@ba.ecclesia.sk
The Šamorín Synagogue was built in 1912. During its construction, the Jewish ecclesiastical community applied not only architectural elements of romantic style but also motifs of the Middle East. The windows of the synagogue were decorated with coloured glass. Its interior is a combination of several architectural styles, which was characterized by several buildings of this period. The balcony, a place for sitting of women, divides the interior into two parts. After the Holocaust, the synagogue was unused, which was associated with a dramatic decrease in the number of members of this ecclesiastic organization. Except for 2-3 families, all Jews were deported from Šamorín. Since 1996, however, it has dawned on better times and a new era of the synagogue has begun. Thanks to the At Home Gallery organisation, it now serves as an exhibition hall for works of art and an occasional concert hall. Source: https://krajzazitkov.sk/objavuj/place/samorinska-synagoga/ Contact information:Present use: culture, education, tourismAddress: At Home Gallery, Mliečňanská street no. 6, 93 101 ŠamorínTelephone: 0903-255 681, (031) 562 7999E-mail: athome@stonline.skWeb: www.athomegallery.org
The merciful picture of the Virgin Mary of Trnava was painted according to the model from the Roman Church of Saints Alexei and Boniface. This picture depicts the Virgin Mary with a dark face and dark garment: it is a Byzantine type of Our Lady of Prayer. The painting of Virgin Mary of Trnava is a painting on wood with dimensions of 89 x 71 cm. In 1663 the Turks looted and ravaged Hlohovec, Nitra, Modra, Pezinok, Franciscan Monastery of St. Catherine and penetrated to the vicinity of Trnava. However, they did not reach the town itself and Trnava remained intact. At this time, a strange event occurred - a picture of the Virgin Mary in the parish church showed bloody sweat. Although relatively few reports have been preserved about this extraordinary phenomenon, people have believed and disseminated reports of this over the years. From the time of the Kuruc War II (1703 - 1711), there were other reports of the miraculous tearing of the Marian image. After these events, the inhabitants of the city asked to create a more dignified place for the merciful picture of the Virgin Mary of Trnava. On the third of June 1739, the foundation stone of the Marian chapel was laid and consecrated, which was ceremonially consecrated on 9 September 1741 along with the main altar. After the World War I, respect for the Virgin Mary of Trnava fell. The tradition began to come back to life after 1939, the holy masses, sermons, processions, adorations were renewed, and the respect for the love picture of the Virgin Mary of Trnava in the form of a novena, or nine-day devotion of various forms was gradually formed. It is held regularly from 13 to 21 November. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Literature: Rusina, I.(ed.): History of Slovak Fine Art: Baroque. Bratislava SNG, 1998. Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Street of M. Sch. Trnavský no. 3, 917 01 Trnava 1Telephone: 033/5931 081,E-mail: dekanat.trnava@abu.skWweb: https://www.abu.sk/
The Orthodox Synagogue, due to its size called the "Little Synagogue", is a hall building with no towers oriented east-west direction, indoors with female galleries carried by cast-iron columns. In addition, several original historicizing art-craft details and remnants of the original painting have been preserved in the interior. The continuity of the acting of the Jewish community was interrupted by the onset of fascism in 1939, after the World War II the synagogue was only short-lived and its original function ceased to exist at the beginning of the 1950s. Since then, it has been used for various utilitarian, mainly storage purposes, and has decayed for many years. In the early 1990s, the Jewish community reconstituted the synagogue and then sold it to private property. It has undergone a complete construction renovation and after decades it has been made available to the public again. Its revival, although not with its original function, but with new cultural and social use, is in a marginal area, such as the restoration of the monuments of Jewish architecture in Slovakia, a relatively unique work. Source: http://www.vitajtevtrnave.sk/sk/register/ortodoxna-synagoga Contact information:Present use: café, exhibitionsAddress: Haulíkova street no. 405/3, 917 00 TrnavaTelephone: +421 910 921 922E-mail : info@synagogacafe.skWeb: http://www.synagogacafe.sk
For the first time, the Jewish community performs in Trnava in written monuments in the 14th century, by means of an inscription on stone tombstones discovered during the dismantling of the Lovčická city gate in 1862, but the presence of Jews in this shopping centre can be assumed earlier. A linguistically and religiously isolated but alive community was formed, with its own administrative and judicial powers, which had its mayor and synagogue in the 16th century, their rights and obligations to the majority population arising from a treaty with the city. In 1539, however, due to some questionable kidnapping and murder of a child, king Ferdinand I ordered Trnava to expel all Jews forever, and this order was repeated in 1686 by emperor Leopold I.The medieval Jewish ghetto somewhere between today's Pavlínská and Dolnopotočná streets disappeared without a trace, but the "eternal times" lasted until 1783, when Joseph II. He granted equal rights to religions by a patent. General restrictions on the number of Jews in towns, their economic activities, property ownership or access to education were lifted, and the Jewish community in Trnava grew so much that in 1855 Rabbi Simon Sidon moved from nearby Cífer. In the years 1891 - 1897 a synagogue of the religious community Status Quo Ante was created according to a project by the Viennese architect Jakub Gertner. Representing a two-tower building near the orthodox synagogue, it represents a typical Jewish sacral architecture combining historicizing and oriental elements. The building, which was used as a warehouse in the second half of the 20th century, was damaged in 1986 by a fire, but it still preserved fragments of the painting and a gallery for women carried by cast-iron columns. Holocaust victims are commemorated by the memorial in front of the entrance, built after World War II. Since 1994, the synagogue has been a part of the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava and serves as the Centre for Contemporary Art. Source: http://www.vitajtevtrnave.sk/sk/register/synagoga-nabozenskej-obce-status-quo-ante Contact information:Present use: Centre for Contemporary Art.Address: Halenárska street no. 2, 917 01 TrnavaTelephone: 033 / 55 11 659E-mail: info@gjk.skWweb: http://www.gjk.sk
The church and cemetery in Modranka are mentioned in written sources from the 16th century. The local parish pilgrimage church dedicated to the Holy Trinity has a turbulent history. It was built in the Baroque style in the years 1650 - 1657. Its construction was linked to the older Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, which was built between 1629 - 1632 and was originally the end of the Calvary leading to Trnava. The church builder was probably inspired by the Church of St. John the Baptist in Trnava. It is reminded especially by the facade, where two prismatic towers beautified with lisenas. Slender onion roofs slender on them. The single-nave church is terminated by a polygonal presbytery and vaulted by a cross vault. In 1659, a chapel with an altar was added on the northern side of the church, and in 1767 it was extended by an extension to its present form. The graceful statue of Our Lady of Loreto is now located above the wooden altar. Pilgrims began to come in larger numbers after the events of 1683, when Trnava and Modranka were threatened by the Turkish army. The helpless inhabitants fled to the Virgin Mary. According to legend, when the region unexpectedly enveloped the thick fog and stopped the invaders, the inhabitants were convinced that the Virgin Mary saved them. Pope Inocent XII proclaimed Modranka as a pilgrimage place in the breve of 30 June 1695 and granted full indulgences for six years to all believers under normal conditions. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Church of Holy Trinity burned down several times. In 1957 - 1958 an extension of the church was built. The present painting of the church dates back to 1968. In front of the church there is a Lourdes cave from 1944. The pilgrimage in Modranka is always organized on the second Sunday of May. Many pilgrims - from vicinity as well as from afar - receive the comfort, strength, grace and encouragement of faith in the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Literature:ČIČO, M. (ed.): Calvary on Slovakia. Bratislava : Institute of Monuments, 2002.List of monuments in Slovakia, Vol. I Bratislava : Obzor, 1969, page 329.www.faramodranka.sk; www.modranka.com Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Pútnická street no. 4, 917 05 Trnava-ModrankaTelephone: 033/5543 052;E-mail: farnost.modranka@abu.sk;Web: www.faramodranka.sk
The largest and most spectacular temple in Trnava is the two-towered Church of St. John the Baptist, the first building in Slovakia built in a new style - Baroque, modelled according to the Jesuit University Church in Vienna. The construction of this monumental temple was not only a prestige for the city, but also became a model for a new concept of sacral architecture throughout the country. In 1629 - 1637, the representative temple of the Jesuit University of Trnava, relatively simple from the outside, but filled with paint and gold, was built by Archbishop Jesuit Peter Pázmany on the site of the demolished Gothic church of the Dominicans. The dominant feature of the interior is the monumental main altar, considered the largest early baroque altar in Central Europe. But the main meaning of the interior is the story of the life of the patron saint of the church, St. John the Baptist, developed from his birth to a martyr's execution in the line of images of the main altar and four oval mirrors in the centre of the vault. A two-storey music tribune was created for a large music ensemble. The main source of funds for the freight construction was provided by a patron, palatine Nikolaus Esterházy of Galántha, and his son Paul later continued his work. However, with the church history, other sons of the palatine, brothers Ladislaus, Francis, Gasper and Thomas are sadly linked, who were killed in the Battle of Vozokany and were buried with great pomp in the local crypt under participation of representatives of the whole kingdom. At present, the church is the Cathedral temple of the Archdiocese of Trnava. Source: http://www.vitajtevtrnave.sk/sk/register/katedrala-sv-jana-krstitela Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Street of M. Sch. Trnavský no. 3, 917 01 Trnava 1Telephone: 033/5931 081,E-mail: dekanat.trnava@abu.skWweb: https://www.abu.sk/
The religious community was founded in the 13th century and has written registries from 1732. The real estate national cultural monument "Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Jelka", registered in the Central List of Monuments Fund under the number 24/1, is a dominant feature of the village of Jelka, situated on a slight elevation in the cadastral territory Jelka of the Jelka village. A Baroque church with a Romanesque core with preserved Romanesque apse and Neo-Romanesque transept bears historical values: urban value, architectural value, visual value, age and antiquity value, historical document value and value of function. The oldest and historically most valuable part of the building is the Romanesque apse with concha, dated to the 3rd quarter of the 13th century, which was the sanctuary of the original medieval church. Gothic paintings from the first half of the 14th century have been preserved on the inner walls of the apse. In the years 1747-1756 the church underwent an important Baroque reconstruction, a massive single nave was completed vaulted with a six-side rising vault. As part of the modern reconstruction in 1921, a transept with cross vaults was built from the southern and northern sides of the sanctuary. After the Neo-Romanesque reconstruction, the original Baroque look of the nave was preserved from the exterior side. The interior features the original Baroque main altar from the 17th century with significant artistic value. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Contact information:Address: Kostolná village no. 693/14, 925 23 JelkaTelephone: +421 907 176 914E-mail: farajelka@gmail.comWeb: https://rkjelka.sk/sk/
The history of the monastery is connected with the bull of Pope Paul II from 1465, which allowed the construction of the Franciscan Church near the Chapel of All Saints. The first reference of the chapel dates back to 1401. The first inhabitants of the monastery were Franciscans from Bosnia, who fully developed their activities after the monastery was built in 1492. In the troubled times of the Reformation, the monastery (and the church) belonged to the Evangelical Church of A. C. At that time the printing house of Valentín Manckovič worked as one of the first in Slovakia. After the conversion of Adam Thurza, the owner of the Hlohov estate to the Catholic faith, the monastery and the church were returned to Franciscans in 1630. In the years 1663 - 1683 the town and the monastery were ruled by the Turks, but the Franciscans had consent to spiritual activity. The ceremonial consecration of the church was carried out on 18 May 1699 by the Bishop of Nitra, Ladislav Maťašovský. In the 18th century the monastery was the seat of the provincial minister of the Province of the Most Holy Saviour. The monastery has been a philosophical school since 1647, in 1653 promoted to general studies. In the 18th to 19th centuries the monastery was a remarkable centre of culture and education. The monastery library was remarkable as well, which dates back to the first half of the 16th century. Among the manuscripts found here, the most valuable are the Hlohov Glagolitic fragments (2 letters of the Old Slavonic text of Croatia - Dalmatian origin from the 13th to14th centuries). Since 1959, the Homeland Museum of regional importance has been in the monastery building. Here the brothers began to rebuild the religious life since 1990 and help pastoral diocesan clergy. Source: Archbishop Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Contact information:Address: Franciscan square no. 15, 920 01 HlohovecConvent of the monastery: Jeremiáš Daniel KvakaTelephone: 0902 122 445E-mail: hcklastor@gmail.comWeb: https://frantiskanihc.sk/klastor/
Education began in 1739 in the first secondary school of Moson county. Until the nationalisation of the school (1948) piarist fathers taught the youth in the town and the region. After four decades of compulsory break, since 1994 education has been managed by the piarists again. The chapel was dedicated to Saint Joseph of Calasanz, the founder of the monastery. The painting refers to the motto of the piarists: "the service of the teachers for children is an angellic role".
Since 2005 there is a monument in Szent István Square in the honour of those deported from Csorna to the death camps in 1944. The marble boards displays the name of 655 Jewish victim from Csorna.The monument was designed by Krisztián Udvardi which is marked with a dome on the top and its floor plan shapes the Star of David.
On the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust, in 2015 a Holocaust monument was presented in Mosonmagyaróvár. The artwork of Ferenc Lebó, sculptor stands in Shalom Park which was established next to the Jewish cemetery.
The former synagogue is in the yard of two late medieval buildings in the downtown. The first written records about the Jewish in Sopron are from the 13th century. The early Gothic synagogue, which was built around 1300 and was unique in Central Europe, could not – in accordance with the then specifications – be erected on the street line therefore there is yard at its front. The building remained only in pieces but its former layout could be reconstructed. There is an exhibition in the building. "Forgotten people from Sopron".
The Orthodox synagogue on the south of Paprét was erected upon the designs of János Schiller in 1890-1891 in an archaic style. The following buildings were part of the synagogue: the ritual bath built in 1911, the matzo house and the yeshiva established in 1917. These buildings can still be found opposite the park. In the park the Holocaust statue was made by László Kutas in 2004. The composition in the memory of 1800 victims deported from Sopron to Auschwitz in 1944 symbolises the changing room in front of the gas chambers. The letters of text as rising smoke refers to the prayer "Hear, Israel" and the Hebrew characters on the fence refers to the text "May the memory of the righteous be blessed'".
The church, erected in the 12th-14th century, stands in the cemetery which is bounded by stone wall with loopholes and where a steep road leads to. The tower of the church is accessible across a vaulted "castle gate" served as a watchtower before, and from its Gothic windows the whole landscape of Fertő can be viewed. The fields between the medieval stone ridges of the temple and the triumphal arch is decorated by wall paintings made in the 20th century. The painting behind the altar depicts Bishop Wolfgang of Regensburg who lived in the 10th century, who did missionary work also in Hungary and who was the tutor of Blessed Gisela, the Queen of Hungary.
A pathetic sculpture outside the cemetery wall commemorates several hundreds of Jewish victims who died in the compulsory labour camp in the winter of 1944-1945, among inhuman conditions. The artwork of László Kutas, sculptor and Barna Winkler, architect made in 2008 is a national literary and historic memorial site. There is an open book built in the fence wall with a message carved in the stone: "freedom is not only the matter of a nation but of the whole mankind." The author of this quote is Antal Szerb, Catholic writer who was compromised and killed because of his Jewish origin in the camp of Balf.
Classicist church from 1778. It was modified in 1927. The church is a single-nave building with a straight presbytery closure and a built-in choir, covered with a Prussian vault. The facade is smooth. The slender tower is built into the gable frontage, divided by a lisena's frame and covered with a pyramid. The main altar with the altar cabinet and the hanging painting of the Virgin Mary's Assumption from the first half of the 19th century. The pulpit was classicist from 1778. Arnold Ipolyi, a well-known architect of architectural monuments of the Rye Island, wrote about the Church of Jurová: “Jurová (Bratislava County), originally called György-Soka-, Suka- or Sika, has been known from the documents since 1253. Church records of visits from Baka - since it used to belong to the parish in Baka - state that the church in Jurová was consecrated in 1519 by the governor of Bishop Epiphania and Archbishop Bakács. It is therefore likely that the then church of Jurová was originally built in Gothic style. This older, redeveloped building was joined by a newer nave. A curiosity about the construction of this church is the legend mentioned by Karcsay (magazine Új Magy. Muz. Volume 1852, page 769), which states that it was installed to its current place by angels; this feature is also mentioned in connection with other churches attended mainly by pilgrims. Jurová was one of the patronimic residences of the counts Erdődi Pálffy, Erős and Katona Houses. In 1755 the church was enlarged and a tower was built. The western part of the church was demolished in 1788 and a new one was built instead. The new building was consecrated by Péter Ürményi in 1808. The title of the church is the Virgin Mary's Assumption. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Literature:Guntherová, Alžbeta et al: List of monuments in Slovakia I. Bratislava: Obzor, 1967www.jurova.sk (12.10.2015) Contact information:Address: Roman Cathilic church, parish of Jurová, Jurová village no. 1, 930 09 Trstená na OstroveTelephone: 031/5597 495E-mail: farnost.jurova@abu.sk