Church of St. Martin (seat: Square of St. Martin) - it is a Baroque-Classicist building built according to the projects of J.N. Jado in 1752 to 1755. It was originally built along with the adjacent complex of buildings as the monastery church of the Capuchin Order. The monastery was closed during the period of Josephine reforms. The church is single-nave with a straight closure of the presbytery, vaulted with Prussian vaults. The interior is Baroque-Classicist, mostly original from the second half of the 18th century. Since 1755 it has been a parish church and in 1786, at the decision of the Archbishop of Esztergom Joseph Batthyányi, it became a parish church with a permitted change of its consecration to St. Martin. At present, the church and monastery is administered by the Order of Premonstratensians. The monastery is attached to the east side of the church and has a square ground plan with a courtyard in the middle. The rooms in the two-storey building are vaulted with Prussian and mirror vaults. Above the entrance there is an organ choir, seated on three arcade pillars. In the side Chapel of Our Lady there is the altar of Pieta. Holíč Baroque sculpture is one of the most valuable works of art of its kind in Central Europe. The sculpture is more than 300 years old. On the west wall there is a pulpit accessible from the nave by stairs made inside the masonry. In the central axis of the church there is the main altar dedicated to St. Martin and two side altars consecrated to St. John of Nepomuk and st. Anthony of Padua. From the older parish church, a stone baptistery was transported to the Church of St. Martin due to liturgical reasons. Source: City of Holíč
The church was built in 1397 in Gothic style during the reign of Stibor of Stiborice, who acquired the castle dominion from the king Sigismund. It underwent various modifications and was alternately consecrated to St. Martin and to the Divine Heart of Jesus. It is single-nave, vaulted with barrel vault with lunettes. It was rebuilt in the Baroque style and completed with a tower at the end of the 17th century. The Baroque main altar is consecrated to the Divine Heart of Jesus, and the side altars to Our Lady and St. Martin. There is an organ with six mutations on the chorus. The old church bells ended in a metal foundry during the World War I. Tje present ones were installed on 25 May 1924. Benches in the sanctuary and chandeliers made of cut glass come from the chateu chapel of Holíč Castle. The original chapel was built as a Romanesque church, which probably gave the name of the town. In the contemporary sources, Holíč is mentioned as Alba Ecclessia, Weisskirchen, i.e. “white church”. An archaeological survey revealed an even older stone building, so it is basically the oldest building monument in the city. In the close vicinity of the Gothic church there is the Loreto Chapel, which served in the troubled 16th century as an Orthodox church and one of the most famous noblemen Peter Bakič was also buried in it. It gained its present day Baroque appearance in the 18th century, between 1727 and 1779. It is currently without interior equipment and is not available to the public. Source: City of Holíč Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Church, parish of Holíč, square of St. Martin no. 2, 908 51 HolíčTelephone: 034-6682214E-mail: faraholic@faraholic.sk