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. |
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
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Mierové Square
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Plague Pillar
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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. |
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
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The District House (at present the museum of Trenčin)
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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 StreetDuring 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 DameThe 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 ChapelThe 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.
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