Showing posts with label Kassa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kassa. Show all posts

Saturday, June 15, 2024

SAINT ELIZABETH'S CATHEDRAL IN KASSA/ KOSICE MEDIEVAL EUROPE : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #24




I wanted to mention here that this Cathedral was in Hungary for generations and that your ancestor's birth, marriage, or death records may be in Slovakia (the present country) as a result in the changes enforced after World War II.

Saint Elizabeth's cathedral is in the Gothic architecture style. This website has extensive information on the architecture of the building as it is today. It all started with a smaller church built by German settlers and dedications to other saints, such as Saint Michael. It might have been a Slavic- Greek Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Nicholas as well. Eventually a larger and more important structure was built.

Excerpt: Beginning of construction of the church of St. Elizabeth probably began around 1390. King Sigismund of Luxemburg, Bishop of Eger, and especially wealthy townspeople with the town council were involved in this work. In addition, in 1392 and 1402, Pope Boniface IX issued bulls, thanks to which all pilgrims who contributed to the construction of the church had their sins forgiven, and the relic of Christ’s blood could be kept in the church. The first stage of construction work lasted until around 1420. During it, the perimeter walls of the nave and the first two floors of the western towers were erected. In the years 1420-1440, the octagonal superstructure of the Sigismund’s tower was made and the walls of the nave were raised. During this period, the remains of the old church of St. Michael, which was somehow enclosed with new walls, were finally demolished.

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Saturday, May 18, 2024

CASTLE FUZER BUILT DURING THE OTTOMAN WARS : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #23




Castle Fuzer was a defense castle at Fuze and was paced on a volcanic mountain before the death of King Andras II in 1235 by members of the Aba Clan.  This link to provides us a history of the noble families that owned the castle, which is located above Tokaj wine country and south of Kassa (not in Slovakia.)  Among the highlights of this history is that the sacred crown of Hungary was hidden in the castle for a year in 1526,  In 1567 it went into the hands of the Bathory family, which you may know because of Elizabeth Bathory, known as the countess who was said to have murdered many servant girls.  (A story that has been disputed.)  She got the castle in 1603.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

FERENC RAKOCZI : and a post from EUROPE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST BLOG


EUROPE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST : MANY HAPPY RETURNS FERENCE RAKOCZKI : REBURIAL 2020 A very well written essay, the author finds he is following the reburial of this Hungarian Hero of the 1848 Revolution.  An excellent history of what happened in Hungarian history...

The author tells the story of the burial and movement of the hero's ashes... 

Excerpts: "While Kossuth is synonymous with the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, his name is not eponymous with an entire war for independence. That accolade was reserved for Rakoczi because of his leadership in the fight to wrest Hungary away from Habsburg rule. Rakoczi's War of Independence lasted from 1703-1711...

The defeat sent Rakoczi and his closest followers into permanent exile. His life ended twenty-four years after his war for independence. Far away from his Hungarian homeland, Ference II Rakoczi drew his last breath on the shores of the Sea of Marmara, 90 miles from Constantinople in the Turkish town of Rodosto.  Rakoczi's ashes eventually came to rest at Lazarist Monastery in Constantinople."

(However, when Austria took over, there was a push to return his ashes to Budapest, and then to Kosice. There would be a crypt waiting for him...)

Excerpt: "In retrospect, the resurrection of a Rakoczi cult seems like a quintessentially Hungarian thing to do. They celebrated a lost war, for a star crossed cause, led by a long dead war hero who spent his last twenty-five years in exile..."

Rokoczi's ashes were taken from Budapest to Kosice and to Saint Elizabeth Cathedral.

An excellent blog! Follow along as the author takes us to the crypt. 

Note that Kosice in Slovakia was Kassa in Hungary.  Saint Elizabeth is the largest cathedral in Slovakia.