page_title: St Elisabeth Cathedral
section_title: Baroque period
hierarchical_section_title: St Elisabeth Cathedral / History / Baroque period
caption_attribution_description: English: Stained glass window in the transept of the St. Elisabeth (of Hungary) Cathedral, Košice, Slovakia (formerly Kassa, Hungary. Upper row, from the left: Bl. Móric Csák, Bl. Károly Csáky, St. George, St. Francis Xavier. Lower row, from the left: seal of bl. Móric Csák, coats of arms of the Hungarian Csáky noble family, György Andrássy (1797 - 1872) and Franziska, born zu Königsegg-Aulendorf (1814 - 1871) and the Andrássy Hungarian noble family.
context_page_description: The Cathedral of St Elisabeth is a Gothic cathedral in Košice.
  It is Slovakia's largest church and one of the easternmost Gothic cathedrals in Europe.
  The record of the existence of Kassa, dating from 1230, is connected with the existence of the rectory church. In the process of the settlement's transformation from a rural community into a town, all its periods of successes and failures have been reflected in St Elisabeth's Cathedral.
  According to historical and archaeological sources, the present-day cathedral was built on the place of an earlier church also consecrated to St Elisabeth of Hungary. It was referred to in documents of 1283 and 1290, in which the bishop of Eger Andrew II exempted Košice parish from the dean's sphere of jurisdiction.
context_section_description: In 1706 the church was damaged during the Francis II Rákóczi occupation. The most damaged parts were the west and the south side of the church. During the 18th century several parts of the church were fixed and embellished. 
  In the second half of the 18th century the church already had 14 altars (with comparison to the 10 that exist today). Baroque–Rococo helmet with sightseeing view obtained the Sigimund's tower after the fire in 1775.
caption: Stained glass window in the transept
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