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Monuments

Trenčín castle

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The castle was built over a settlement site that had existed from the Bronze Age through times of Celts and Germanic tribes to the Slavic settlement. In the times of the origins of the Ugrian state a royal castle had developed out of the older Great Moravia hill-fort-roost.

Roman inscription

The most important Roman epigraphic monument in Central Europe north of the Dunaj (Danube) river, preserved „in situ“. In the last third of the 2nd Century, the invasion of Germanic tribes of Marcomanni and Quadi started one of the most dangerous conflicts between the Roman empire and tribes of  the Danube river. 

Parish stairway

The Renaissance Parish stairway was built in 1568 as a defence passageway serving the members of the city art's guilds to defend city walls ranging from the St.Michael's Carner to the castle.

Relief of Ján Jiskra of Brandýs

In 19 15-1916, the Relief of the Victorious Hungaria was carved in the castle rock as a symbol of heroism of the former Ugria. The relief was designed by the sculptor Michal Kara.

House of the City's executioner

The house dates back to 1580 and can be seen in the oldest vista of Trenčín.  In the 17th century, according to folk legend, it served as the City’s executioner’s home as well as a prison.  More likely the house received its name during the 19th century, when the City pandour purportedly lived there.

Roman Catholic Church of the Birth of Virgin Mary

Built in 1324, on the foundation of a 13th. Century building, the church is a three-nave Basilica-type structure with a simple  right-angle presbytery and a protruding-front-positioned tower on the west side. Around the first half of the 15th century, the church was reconstructed into a hall-like three nave structure with a polygonal presbytery.  In 1528, during a besiege of the castle by Katzianer, the church and the nearby St. Michael’s carner burned down.

Hotel Tatra

Built by baron Armin Popper in 1901 in line with elements of the Secession style, according to a design by E. Bleier. The building was erected on the site of an older inn called At the Red Star. The hotel was named after the emperor Francis Joseph’s wife Elizabeth „ Erzsébet“  (today‘s cafe Sissi bears her name ). In 1919, the hotel was purchased by Tatra bank, and in 1921 the name was changed to Tatra hotel.

Mierové Square

The square has an elongated  form which shape has been changed through centuries. Building townhouses was the activity that impacted the square’s character the most.  The Jesuits built their church and convent on the square during 1652 – 1657. The statues of St. Ján Nepomucký and Plague Pillar were erected in the 18th century.

Plague Pillar

The pillar was built, in 1712, in the center of the square to commemorate a plague that hit Trenčín in 1710. Vienna stone-cutting masters that were working on the restoration of the Piarist Church at the time, created the pillar after the initiative of hereditary Lord of District, earl Mikuláš Ileszhazi.

 

Piarist Church of St. Francis Xaverský

Founded by the Jesuits in 1649, the church’s cornerstone was laid in 1653. The Jesuit, later Piarist Church of St. Francis Xaverský, was built in the early-Baroque style from 1653 – 1657, as one-nave building with side chapels with top opening emphoric oratories.  Italian builder Pietro Spazzo, together with his brother Berhard, supervised the construction. The building follows the middle European style of the two-tower Jesuit temples as shown by the St. Francis Church in Vienna. 

Zlatá Fatima Passage

The original passage was built after the great fire in 1886, starting at the ground floor of Zlatý Baran hotel. This connected the square with today's Palackého Street and it provided easier access for the firemen to the City center. 

The Lower City Gate

The six floor Gothic tower of the city gate was built around the begining of the 15th century on a square foundation.  Originally, it was a two story structure, with its passage roofed by a pointed Gothic arch. During the first quarter of the 17th century, the gate was updated in the   Renaissance style, a third floor was added in an octogan shape.  Damaged during the besiege of the castle by Katzianer, the gate in 1543 – 1549 was reconstructed, erected higher and fortified by the semicilcular barbican with a lower front bastion.

City Office

In 1663, the City office bought a house located on the square, next to the Lower City gate. Prior to the purchase,  Magistrate's members' meetings took  place in the individual members' homes. In the first half of the 16th century, meetings were held at this building, which, didn’d suit the ne eds of the Magistrate.

Municipal Saving Bank

Built between 1934 - 1937, as a multi-functional building. The Bank is a flat roof, four floor building, designed by F. Silberstein - Silvan. The fourth floor reaches into the interior of the building, copying the higher population stratum of the castle hill and joins it.

The District House (at present the museum of Trenčin)

The museum originally s erved as a the city palace of the Ilešházis and is located near the Upper city gate.  Built in the 17th. Century, late Baroque adjustments were made to the palace in 1760 -1764.  The original four nave ground-plan was modified by the addition of another floor, a passage hall, a staircase with Tuscan columns and by making adjustments to the front of the palace. 

Synagogue

The Trenčín synagogue belongs to the most exquisite and interesting works of its type in Slovakia. It was built close to an earlier synagogue. In 1913, a Trenčín construction firm, Fuchs and Niegreisz, based on the blueprints of a Berlin architect Dr. Richard Scheibner, carried out the construction.

Archaeological site at Vajanského Street

During excavation of the building site for the Czechoslovak Commercial Bank (CSOB) in 1996 ? 1997, an archaeological survey discovered the walling of a medieval sacral building. The walling is...

St. Michael's Carner

Except for Trencin castle, it is the only substantially undamaged Gothic building in the City. The Carner was built in the second half of the 15th century as a bone house (kostnica), near the Parish church. Its rear wall connects to the original city fortification. In the begining of the 16th century the over-ground part was added.  After a fire destroyed the church in 1528, it served as a temporary chapel and place of worship.

Convent Church Notre Dame

The church was built in 1909, in line with the historic neo-Romanesque style. In 1924, a well known Slovak painter, Peter Kern, painted wall paintings inside with biblical undertones. He created 14...

St. Anne's Chapel

The Chapel was built in 1789, over the site of an earlier Gothic church that belonged to the City hospital. The Baroque and Classicist style main altar with the picture of St. Anne dates to the...

Lutheran Church

This church was built in the Classicist style in 1794. In 1935, a substantial reconstruction was done mainly to the church’s interior.   An Academic sculptor Jozef Pospíšil created the corpus of the Crucified Christ. A Trenčín bronze smith Arthur Michalec made the church door.  The Church is accessible only during religious services.

 

Early Baroque Convent Facility

A facility of the Convent Collegium, today's Piarist Gymnasium of J. Branecký, was built in 1653 – 1662. The complex was built as a three-nave, two-tract, four-story building with a central paradise court.