The Plague Chapel of St. Rosalie () in
Košice
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was built at the bottom of Red bank, according to work of
T. Tornyossy and
J. Goresch (together with
J.E. Widman's collaboration), near the cemetery in 1714–1715 as the memorial of the plague from 1710–1711.
The chapel was successfully erected in 1785, thanks to the foundation of priest
Józef Sztolzma
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n. In 1898
Jan Balogh
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restored it. At that time its interior was renewed and completed as well.
It is a one-nave chapel of a trunk structure with a tower covered with an onion-shaped helmet with a lantern. Interior decoration is from the turn of the 18th / 19th centuries. On the rood-screen beam there are statues of
St. Rosalie and carvings of
putti
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holding an hourglass and a skull. In the main altar of the 18th century there is a modern painting depicting
St. Rosalie. There are also two side altars with statues of the
Holy Virgin
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and
St. Theresa
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.
Gallery
File:Plague Chapel of St. Rosalie tower.JPG,
File:Plague Chapel of St. Rosalie window.jpg,
References
Churches in Košice
18th-century churches in Slovakia
Epidemics in art
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