Levice

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Levice is a town of about 37,000 inhabitants in Slovakia (or the Slovak Republic), a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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The first written record of Levice is from 1156 and mentions Martirius, the archbishop of Esztergom (Hungary), who consecrated the church in Bratka village dedicated to St.Martin. There was established a parish where the villages "villa Leua" and Vitk were annexed . At that time the village of Leua (Levice) was a subject to the Tekov castle, and was situated on the east part of today?s town Levice, somewhere on the slopes of the vineyard, which is still called Old Levice.

Tourist information agency: Holubyho 2, Levice, 036/6318 037 Information service EDB: 036/16185

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• The castle in Levice was built in the 13th century, when the Tartar-looted Tekovsky castle?s importance declined. It was built on andesite rock, the remain of Neogenic volcanic activity, which continued to the ?tiavnica hills. From the west side the castle was bounded with the marshy meadow of the river Hron, with its several river branches. The castle itself had been a fortress for protection of the mining towns. Under the protection of the castle in the 14th century there had been established a settlement "Big" or "Old Levice", which is now the real predecessor of today?s Levice town. The most significant building of the town is the castle fortress built in the second half of the 13th century on a steep hillside extending to a swamp. In the upper section of the castle ruins of the Gothic palace, the oldest part of the fortress, remained. At the walls of its eastern side some of the bastion lower parts remained where a summerhouse was built in the 19th century (nowadays it is run as a teahouse). There also remained fortress?s external walls, corner stone framing, the oldest Gothic palace?s portal, some parts of plaster and fortification. In the 16th century the fortress was enlarged, strengthened by a bulwark and a palisade bastion was raised on its top and later it was gradually replaced by stonewalls, with bastions for cannons on their corners. The other fortress buildings from the times of the Turkish wars close the lower bailey. The biggest one (the Dobó?s Mansion) dated back to 1571 - a rectangular Renaissance castle with a storied keep above the entrance from the town side. This entrance could only be approached from outside across the drawbridge. In the 17th century this castle was rebuilt in Baroque style and elevated by another storey. On the western side of the yard the Captain?s house was built and on the north-western part there is a huge multi-angular gun bastion, where in the old times a castle chapel was situated and used during the Turkish occupations as a mosque. During feudal uprisings in the 17th century the castle was badly damaged. In 1702 Rákoczy?s rebels occupied the castle and before leaving Levice in 1709 they decided to destroy it. They burned it down, ruined the castle walls, filled the moats with ruins and thus the castle lost its function as a military fort. Less damaged buildings of the lower castle were later repaired and useless annexes were removed. Since 1958 the Tekov Museum has been seated here.

• The Eszterházy family during the period from 1773 to 1780 built the Classicist parish-church of St.Michael Archangel on the site of the old church destroyed in the great fire. Over the main pediment front there is built-on a double-tower superstructure. On the straight pediment between the towers is the statue of St.Ladislaus. The Classicist altar was built in 1793 and has an illusive columnar architecture with symmetrically placed sculptures. In the middle there is a picture of St. Michael Archangel, after the painting of Quido Reni. Remarkable carved late-Baroque wooden benches from the middle of the 18th century show scenes from St.Francis?s life. The classicist epitaph of the Eszterházy family with a plastic family coat of arms and inscription comes from the year 1786. Franciscan-Minorites built the Roman Catholic church of St. Joseph with an adjacent cloister building. In 1814 the Piarist order took the cloister over and opened a grammar school there. The church was rebuilt in 1773.

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• Levice home page (http://www.levice.sk)

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