The very core of the building was Gothic, with minor Renaissance-Baroque alterations. During the era of the post of Sauberer - in the 1840s - the building collapsed to prepare the site for a magnificent late Baroque monastery complex. Based on the common elements of the buildings, it is concluded that the author of the building is the Viennese architect Anton Pilgram. The beautiful and dignified building, which is set in a miraculous natural scenery, is one of the rarest Baroque artistic and architectural monuments.
The floor plan is rectangular in shape, with a centrally located church that divides the building into two separate wings. The right wing is the convent and the left wing is formed by the prelature. Both wings enclose a courtyard with a square floor plan, which served as gardens for meditation. The façade is raised by corner towers with an attic and is divided by regularly alternating windows, interrupted by risalits (vertical protrusions of the façade from the foundations) ending in sculptures decorated with frescoes. The theme of the frescoes concerns church symbols and the surrender of the monastery to the king.
In the extension of the main axis of the church of St. John the Baptist is a monastery library, which is highlighted on the outside by a raised protrusion of the facade. The peculiarity of the monastery building is the fact that it has 365 windows - as days of the year, has 12 large chimneys - as months of the year, and has 4 entrances - as a number of seasons.
The builder of the monastery complex is the Tyrolean Anton Salzgeber, who applied for Košice citizenship after the construction was completed. The decoration of the church - plasterer, architectural sculptures, statues and marbling are the work of Johann Hennevogel. The statues of St. probably come from him. Stephen and St. Ladislava located in the facade of the church. His work is suitably complemented by works of art by the painter Ján Lukáš Kracker and the sculptor and painter Ján Anton Krauss, who, among other things, decorated the church with pleasant-looking putti statues.
Explanation of the Church of St. John the Baptist took place in 1766, when the monastery was probably completed.
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