Košice Staré Mesto (literally: "Košice Old Town", ) is a
borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English language, 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
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(city ward) of
Košice
Košice 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 approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...
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Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, 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 west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...
. 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/km
2 (31 December 2017)
* District:
Košice I
Košice I () is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia, in the city of Košice
Košice 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 bord ...
* 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 (, ; ), also called Saint Elizabeth Cathedral, is a Gothic architecture, Gothic cathedral in Košice, Slovakia. It is the largest church (building), church in Slovakia and one of the easternmost Gothic cathedrals ...
(Main Street)
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St Michael Chapel (Main Street)
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Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Dominican Church)
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St Anthony of Padua Church (Main Street)
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Evangelical Church
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...
(Mlynská Street)
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Calvinist Church (Hrnčiarska Street)
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Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Moyzesova Street)
* Orthodox Synagogue (Zvonárska Street)
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New Orthodox Synagogue (Puškinova Street)
Old housing and public buildings
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Levoča House (15th century townhouse and inn, Main Street)
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Mikluš Prison (late-medieval city houses converted into the old city prison)
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St. Urban Tower (medieval bell tower, Main Street)
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State Theatre Košice (Main Street)
* Captain Palace, headquarters of the Slovak Technical Museum (Main Street)
* Jakab Palace (Mlynská Street)
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St Charles Borromeo Seminary (Main Street)
* Craftsman's Lane historical housing and workshops (Hrnčiarska Street)
Memorials and monuments
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Plague Column, Košice (Main Street)
Fortifications
* Lower Gate (''Dolná brána'') fortification complex (Main Street, exhibition)
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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 gri ...
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, charcoal (which is mostly carbon), and potassium nitrate, potassium ni ...
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
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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 (Main Street)
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East Slovak Gallery (Main Street)
* Lower Gate (''Dolná brána'') Archaeological Exhibition (Main Street)
* Museum of the Victims of Communism (Moyzesova Street)
* Kunsthalle Košice - Art and exhibition centre.
Infrastructure
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Košice railway station
Košice railway station (, 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 terminus of the Košice–Žilina rail ...
- 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
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 (, , ) 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 district by area, Bratislava I. It contains the sma ...
- An analogous borough in Slovakia's capital,
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...
.
References
External links
Official website of the Košice Old Town boroughArticle on the Košice Old Town borough at Cassovia.skOfficial website of Košice
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