Košice Staré Mesto (literally: "Košice Old Town", hu, Kassa-Óváros) is a
borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
History
In the Middle Ag ...
(city ward) of
Košice
Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...
,
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
. It encompasses the historical centre of the city, consisting of the medieval and early modern core of Košice, with many preserved historical buildings of several architectural styles, and a small number of more modern architecture. The borough also includes the immediate environs of the historical centre (e.g. ''Mestský park'' ("City Park"), ''Staničné námestie'' ("Station Square") with the main train station, etc.).
Statistics
* Area:
* Population: 20,751 (31 December 2017)
* Population density: 4,800/km2 (31 December 2017)
* District:
Košice I
Košice I ( hu, Kassai I. járás) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia, in the city of Košice. It is bordered by the Košice II, Košice III, Košice IV
Košice IV ( hu, Kassai IV. járás) is a district in the Košice Region ...
* Mayor: Ing. Igor Petrovčik (as of 2018 elections)
Historical landmarks
Churches and synagogues
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St Elisabeth Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Elizabeth (Slovak: ''Dóm svätej Alžbety'', ; Hungarian: ''Szent Erzsébet-székesegyház'', German: ''Dom der heiligen Elisabeth''), also called Saint Elizabeth Cathedral, is a Gothic cathedral in Košice. It is the larg ...
Evangelical Church
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...
(Mlynská Street)
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Calvinist Church
Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John ...
St. Urban Tower
The Urban Tower ( sk, Urbanova veža) in Košice, Slovakia is a renaissance prismatic campanile with a pyramidal roof. It was erected in the 16th century.
The St. Urban Bell, a church bell installed in the tower, has been dedicated to Saint Urban ...
(medieval bell tower, Main Street)
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State Theatre Košice
The State Theatre, Košice ( sk, Štátne divadlo Košice) is situated in the centre of Košice, Slovakia.
The representative building of the State Theatre was built in a Neo-baroque style according to projects of Adolf Lang during the years 187 ...
(Main Street)
* Captain Palace, headquarters of the Slovak Technical Museum (Main Street)
* Jakab Palace (Mlynská Street)
* St Charles Borromeo Seminary (Main Street)
* Craftsman's Lane historical housing and workshops (Hrnčiarska Street)
Memorials and monuments
* Plague Column, Košice (Main Street)
Fortifications
* Lower Gate (''Dolná brána'') fortification complex (Main Street, exhibition)
* Executioner's Bastion (Stará baštová Street, exhibition)
* Ruins of city walls (Hrnčiarska Street, Mlynská Street, Hradbová Street, Čajkovskéko Street, et al.)
* Ruins of the Košice citadel fortress (Liberators' Square, publicly displayed)
* Ruins of the stone bridge on Elisabeth Street (publicly displayed)
Industrial heritage
* Late-medieval
horse mill
A horse mill is a mill, sometimes used in conjunction with a watermill or windmill, that uses a horse engine as the power source. Any milling process can be powered in this way, but the most frequent use of animal power in horse mills was for grin ...
and early modern
gunpowder
Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of a mixture of sulfur, carbon (in the form of charcoal) and potassium nitrate (saltpeter). ...
storeroom (Zbrojničná Street)
* ''Stará sladovňa'', 19th century Old Town brewery (Štúr Street)
* Old tobacco factory ''Tabačka'' (Gorkého Street, converted into Tabačka Kulturfabrik art centre)
Museums and art galleries
* East Slovak Museum (Marathon Runners' Square)
** Medieval Fortifications of the City of Košice (branch exhibition, Executioner's Bastion, Stará Baštová Street)
** City history exhibition (branch exhibition, Mikluš Prison, Pri Miklušovej väznici Street)
** The House of Crafts (branch exhibition, Hrnčiarska Street)
** Historical art exhibition (branch exhibition, Hviezdoslavova Street)
** Natural history exhibition (branch exhibition, Hviezdoslavova Street)
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Slovak Technical Museum
The Slovak Technical Museum ( sk, Slovenské technické múzeum, STM) is a major Slovak technology museum
A technology museum is a museum devoted to applied science and technological developments. Many museums are both a science museum and a t ...
(Main Street)
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East Slovak Gallery
The East Slovak Gallery, established in 1951, was the first regional gallery in Slovakia. The mission of the Gallery is the protection and presentation of the collection and documentation of the art scene and artistic life in the region of Easte ...
(Main Street)
* Lower Gate (''Dolná brána'') Archaeological Exhibition (Main Street)
* Kunsthalle Košice - Art and exhibition centre.
Infrastructure
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Košice railway station
Košice railway station ( sk, Železničná stanica Košice, also known for a short period as ''Košice hlavná stanica'') serves the city of Košice, seat of the Košice Region, eastern Slovakia.
Opened in 1860, the station is the eastern termin ...
- Main railway station of the city, at ''Staničné námestie'' ("Station Square").
Gallery
Main Street ''(Hlavná ulica)''
File:RadnicaKošice.jpg, Košice Old Town Hall
File:Vedecká knižnica.jpg, Pongrác-Forgáč Palace (State Scientific Library) in Košice (skylights of Lower Gate fortifications exhibition in the foreground)
File:Košice - pam. budova - Mlynská 1.jpg, Multiple-storey building at the corner of Main Street and Mlynská Street
File:Košice - Hlavná ul. 72.jpg, Čáky-Dezőfi palace
File:Meštiansky dom.jpg, ''U žobráka'' historical townhouse
File:Dóm svätej Alžbety a Urbanova veza II..jpg, St Urban Tower and St Elisabeth's Cathedral
File:Urbanova veza.jpg, St Urban Tower
File:BiskupskýPalácKošice.jpg, Archbishop's Palace, Košice
File:KEcentre.JPG, Historical tram on Main Street during an annual event
File:Kosice State Theatre, Slovakia.jpg, Košice State Theatre seen from park with fountains
File:LevočskýDom.jpg, ''Levočský dom'' (Levoča House, 15th century)
File:Park pri Fotnáne znamení.jpg, Park at the Fountain of signs (February 2018)
File:Gerster1.jpg, Gerster's House
File:Andrášiho palác, Hlavná 81, Košice.jpg, Andrássy Palace
File:Budova ustavneho sudu.jpg, Building of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
Other Old Town streets and squares
File:Košice, trhy na Dominikánském náměstí.jpg, Marketplace on Dominican Square
File:Košice, Dominikánské námestie, dům.jpg, Historic building on Dominican Square, the Dominican Church in the background
File:Košice, Alžbetina.jpg, ''Alžbetina'' (Elisabeth's) Street, with the Cathedral of St Elisabeth in the distance
File:Miklusova vaznica.JPG, Mikluš's Prison at the corner of ''Pri Miklušovej väznici'' and ''Hrnčiarska'' streets
File:Košice - pam. budova - Mlynská 18.jpg, Shops and public buildings on ''Mlynská'' (Mill) Street
File:Jakab Palace Morning.jpg, Jakab Palace (Mlynská Street)
File:Košice - Hrnčiarska 9.jpg, ''Hrnčiarska'' (Potter's) Street, nowadays home to the Craftsman's Lane series of workshops
File:Košice - Mäsiarska 4.jpg, ''Mäsiarska'' (Butcher's) Street
File:Old Town Rooftops - From St. Elisabeth Cathedral Bell Tower - Kosice - Slovakia (36428416881).jpg, The rooftops of the Old Town
File:Košice – Mestský park-5.jpg, ''Mestský park'' (City Park), between ''Staničné námestie'' and Mlynská Street
File:Moyzesova park.JPG, Park at Moyzesova Street
File:Park na Drevnom trhu.jpg, Park at Drevný trh
File:Košice 17 Slovakia28.jpg, Administrative building at ''Námestie maratóncov'' (Marathon Runners' Square)
File:Kosice Hviezdoslavova7.jpg, Administrative building on Hviezdoslavova Street
File:Kosice Sladovna Sturova ul. 33-02.jpg, Old Brewery (''Stará sladovňa'') at Štúr Street
Religious buildings and cemeteries
File:Dóm svätej Alžbety - z juhu (1).JPG, Cathedral of St Elisabeth on Main Street
File:St. Michael's Chapel, Košice, Slovakia 2.jpg, Chapel of St Michael on Main Street
File:Košice dominikánsky 02.jpg, Dominican Church at the Dominican Square, the oldest surviving church
File:Baroková fasáda kostola.jpg, Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Baroque front facade from Main Street
File:Gotické presbytérium.jpg, Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Gothic back end
File:Premonstratensian crkva - panoramio.jpg, Church of the Holy Trinity on Main Street
File:Evanjelicky kostol Kosice.JPG, Evangelic Church on ''Mlynská'' (Mill) Street
File:Košice - kalvínsky kostol -a.jpg, Calvinist Church at the corner of ''Hrnčiarska'' (Potter's) Street
File:Košice - Gréckokatolícka katedrála (1).jpg, Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God
File:Kosice synagoge zvonarska 20111.jpg, Orthodox synagogue on Zvonárska Street
File:Košice - panoramio (17).jpg, New Orthodox synagogue on Puškinova Street
File:Starý židovský cintorín (1842-1888) - panoramio.jpg, Old Jewish Cemetery (19th century, Nová Terasa)
File:Kosice 40.jpg, Marian Column on Main Street
Museums and art galleries
File:East Slovak Museum in Kosice 2018-05.jpg, East Slovak Museum main exhibition (Marathon Runners' Square)
File:Kosice (Slovakia) - The Slovak Technical Museum.jpg, Slovak Technical Museum main exhibition (Captain Palace, Main Street)
File:Východoslovenská galéria, Hlavná 27.jpg, East Slovak Gallery (Main Street)
File:KunsthalleKošice.JPG, Kunsthalle Košice
File:Tabačka Kulturfabrik - panoramio.jpg, Tabačka Kulturfabrik
Historical fortifications
File:Košice - Dolná brána (2).jpg, Archeological exhibition of ''Dolná brána'' (Lower Gate) fortifications and city sewers at the southern end of Main Street
File:LuxemburgTowerKosice.jpg, Fragment of the medieval wall system in Košice, at the Luxembourg Tower location
File:Košice - Hrnčiarska 9 - múr-1.jpg, Remnants of city walls at Hrnčiarska Street
File:Košice - kamenný múr-3.jpg, Rediscovered part of city walls at ''Námestie osloboditeľov'' (Liberators' Square)
File:Košice - kamenný múr.jpg, Rediscovered parts of city walls at ''Námestie osloboditeľov'' (Liberators' Square)
Newer buildings
File:Hlavná pošta.jpg, Main post office building
File:Business Centre Košice (1).JPG, Business Centre Košice
File:Slovakia Kosice National bank.JPG, National bank of Slovakia building
File:Košice - panoramio (22).jpg
Train station
File:Kassa,vasútállomás, 1920-29.jpg, Postcard of the old train station
File:Železničná stanica Košice 2.jpg, Main facade and entrance of the current train station
File:Košice - Železničná stanica (interiér)4.jpg, Central hall of the current train station
File:Nový rušeň vlaku IC 520 ŽSR Košice.jpg, A locomotive at one of the station platforms
File:Košice - Hlavná stanica.jpg, Tram platforms on Station Square, in front of the station
See also
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Old Town, Bratislava
The Old Town of Bratislava ( sk, Staré Mesto, hu, Óváros, german: Altstadt) is the historic center and one of the boroughs of Bratislava, in the Bratislava Region of Slovakia. It is coextensive with the smallest Slovak administrative distric ...
- An analogous borough in Slovakia's capital,
Bratislava
Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...