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Kostoly a špitály na predmestiach Košíc v stredoveku
Kostoly a špitály na predmestiach Košíc v stredoveku

Author(s): Drahoslav Magdoško
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Christian Theology and Religion, History, Social Sciences, Archaeology, Cultural history, History of Church(es), Geography, Regional studies, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, Pastoral Theology, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Keywords: Košice; Towns; Church Administration; Church; Hospital;

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with suburban churches and hospitals in medieval Košice. Author evaluates historiography published on this topic and presents results of detailed research of town books and tax registers. The aim of contribution consists of characterizing of the development, i.e. origins and cessation of the buildings, their approximate geographical location as well as the position in the church administration of Košice. The existence of three churches and two hospitals surrounding the walled town has been proved by the research. The main and also the oldest hospital with a church had patrocinium of the Holy Spirit. It laid in front of the Lower Gate on south. As the second one, the church of St. Ladislaus was erected in the northern suburb. The last such objects built here in the Middle Ages were leprosarium and church of St. Leonard on the west side. In addition to this, there was constructed one more church in the town´s cadaster, staying in the village of Košická Nová Ves.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 17-37
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Slovak