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St. Nicholas Prison and Kat's apartment

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The building of the Mikluš Prison situated in the center of the historical core of the town was created by connecting two Gothic burgher houses dating from the 13th-14th centuries. century. From the beginning of the 17th century until 1911, the building served as a city prison. Legend has it that it was named after the cruel executioner Mikluš, who allegedly worked in the city during the time of Francis II. Rákociho.

St. Nicholas Prison and Kat's apartment

The building of the Mikluš Prison situated in the center of the historical core of the town was created by connecting two Gothic burgher houses dating from the 13th-14th centuries. century. From the beginning of the 17th century until 1911, the building served as a city prison. Legend has it that it was named after the cruel executioner Mikluš, who allegedly worked in the city during the time of Francis II. Rákociho.

Rákociho. However, we know today that Antonín Marsalek was the executioner of Košice during this period. Recent research has shown that the prison was in fact named after its administrator Franz Miklóssy, who served in this position from 1861 to 1889. In the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the people of Košice called this building popularly "Miklós", just after F Miklóssy. In the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic, she was again called "Mikuláš" in the addressed form. After 1911, the Hornouhorské Museum received the prison as a warehouse. The buildings were thoroughly reconstructed only in the years 1940-1942. The East Slovak Museum has installed its exhibits in spaces adapted for exhibition purposes.

Kat's apartment was probably built in the second half of the 17th century above the old wall alley, at the level of the second floor of the wall tower of the bicycle guild, which became a part of it. Unlike when ever, he was connected to the prison by a covered porch built above her now demolished courtyard wing. There used to be a Košice cat in the building. In 1804, Katov bought an apartment from the town at the Calvinist Church. In the second half of the 20th century, the building became part of the exposition of the East Slovak Museum and was furnished with period furniture. After the cancellation of the exposition in the 1990s, the reconstruction of the building was carried out in 2008-2009, after which a new exposition of Kat's apartment was opened to the public on 30 September 2009.

Updated on: 1.10.2021

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St. Nicholas Prison and Kat's apartment
Košice
Region: Košický
District: Košice I
Area: Abov
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