Church of the Holy Trinity

Even this originally early Baroque church was much smaller than today's. According to the visitation of 1731, it was built of stone and furnished according to the model of the parish church. They had three altars inside, two towers of unequal size outside, two bells and a tower clock. The cemetery was not built next to the church, but on the present site above the village. Under the church is a crypt with the tombs of secular dignitaries, such as members of the Nevedians, Pálfiovci and local priests. The church was a branch of the parish church of St. J.Kristitel. They located it in the opposite position from today's, the presbytery stood on the site of today's choir with a tower, the main entrance with the front facing east, besides it there were two side entrances. The ceremonies were accompanied by a ten-manual organ. The great fire of 1747 destroyed the tower of the church in such a way that the summoned masters from Trnava did not want to repair it, only to demolish it. The church was often repaired by masters from abroad in the service of the Erdődy counts. In 1759, Anton Erdődy invited the stonemason Ján Fidler, who came from Austria, from Bratislava. In 1769, in addition to the work in the mansion, he made red marble shells in the church, and other works were done by the Bratislava sculptor Ján Jozef Sartori.

Fires in 1784 and 1787 damaged the church, so both towers had to collapse, instead a belfry with three bells was built separately on the square: the largest triple bell weighed 10q, donated by Count Ján Nepomuk Erdődy, the middle bell of P.Mária weighed 6q, the smallest St. Florián and Ján Nepomucký only 3.5 q. In 1788, on the count's order, they restored the main altar, which is evidenced by the coat of arms placed there.

Today's parish church was decided to be built after big fires in 1784 and 1787, which destroyed two churches almost to the ground. The necessity of the building was justified by the fact that after the abolition of the monastery with the church of St. Kataríny in Dechticy in 1782, the number of visitors to the churches in Chtelnice increased, but they did not meet the size requirements. The conditions for the new building were met by a lower church with an advantageous location in the center of the village, which also suited the landowners. That is why in 1794 they started building a new, bigger and more beautiful one on the site of the original church.

The foundation stone of the new building was laid on May 6, 1794, this event is commemorated by a plaque with the names of important secular and ecclesiastical dignitaries along with the characteristics of that period. The construction required a lot of building material, more than three hundred thousand pieces of bricks alone were consumed, fifty thousand of which were provided by the landlord. The total financial costs exceeded the sum of 24,600 guilders in silver.

The list of monuments included the church among the artistically valuable classicist architecture with elements of the Empire and Rococo, which has no equivalent in the area.

Next to the tower are stone statues of the apostles Peter and Paul with attributes. On the north side of the church is the entrance to the extensive crypt with the tombs of local priests and noble families.

The interior of the church consists of a uniform empire-classical decoration from the turn of the 18th-19th century. century. The ceiling of the presbytery is made up of an oval fresco The Last Judgment, in the background an image of an archangel holding a ribbon with the inscription CHRISTUS VINCIT REGNAT IMPERAT. The interior has a main and three side altars with a typed composition, an altar canteen, a tabernacle and an altar painting with a patron saint. The painting above the main altar of the patron saint of the Church of the Holy Spirit is particularly artistically valuable. Three. The list of monuments, painting, oil on canvas according to the Italian pattern, dates from 1695. It was ordered by Count Erdődy for the original Baroque church. The composition depicts St. Trinity with angels and figures of people around. On the sides of the wooden tabernacle are polychrome statues of worshipers and archangels. The left side altar in the nave has a painting of St. Mary of the Rosary with Saints Dominic and St. Katarína Sienská, baroque from the middle of the 18th century, there used to be a small painting of the Coronation of St. Mary above the altar table. The right side altar has a picture of St. John of Nepomuck from the 18th century and a small painting of St. Floriana. All of them are in the state list of monuments. The back altar has a picture of the Immaculate from the middle of the 18th century, wooden statues of P. Mary the Queen, next to St. Terezka and St. Alojza from the beginning of the 20th century and with images of the Way of the Cross are a gift of the Hamrlova family. On the sides of the presbytery are wooden statues of St. Joseph, B. Heart, Immaculate and Lourdes P. Maria. A wooden statue of St. stands separately in the nave on the right. Anthony of Padua. The rare monuments include the wooden polychrome statue of Pieta, which is located on the left side of the nave near the side entrance, and was probably originally located in the church of St. John the Baptist. Its dating is not known. They built a sacristy to the right of the old presbytery, above it is an oratory. On the right in the sanctuary is a rare Renaissance wooden baptistery from the middle of the 17th century of the altar type, the relief depicts the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist with the Trinity. On the left side of the nave is an artistically valuable wooden gilded pulpit from the middle of the 18th century, a counterweight to the main altar. On the lectern with rokaj ornament are wooden gilded statues of the four evangelists St. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with attributes, among them gilded reliefs of church teachers Hieronymus, Gregory the Great, Asustín. The top of the canopy pulpit is made up of gilded statues of Christ and the four great Old Testament prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. Above the side entrance is a picture, an oil painting of St. Frantika taking Christ off the cross, originally from the monastery of St. Kataríny near Dechtice. Above the church vestibule is a choir with an organ from the end of the 18th century. The wooden classicist pews of the church date from 1782. 1990 were replaced by new ones. The arched partition of the nave and the presbytery originally bore the inscription: DOMINE DILEXI DECOREM DOMUS TUAE until 1985, on the sides were the dates of construction in 1800 and restoration in 1938. The vault of the nave is decorated with Empire Rococo ornaments with blue medallions of biblical scenes. After 1970, adjustments were made in the presbytery according to II. of the Vatican Council, the center became a table altar facing the nave. The church facade was repaired in 1991.