Saint Michal's Chapel

It probably comes from the first half of the14^th century and had always been a part of the parish church. It was built as a cemetery chapel in the centre of a cemetery inside the city walls stretching from the Cathedral to the South on the island of the Čermeľský potok (Čermeľ brook) in the place of the present park in the Hlavná ulica (Main street).

The lower park of the chapel was ossarium where the bone residua found during digging new graves were deposited. The upper part served for rituals for the dead. In 1508, an aisle was built on the northern part and was demolished during the reconstruction of the chapel in the years 1902 - 1904. On that occasion, old gravestones were bricked into its outer walls to be saved from destruction. The outer decoration is Gothic, the turret is fitted in the roof structure. The patron of the dead, the Archangel Michael, vanquishing the Satan as dragon is shown on the altar. There are Archangels Rafael and Gabriel on his sides. In the interior, there is a nice stone tabernacle, the ornamental sculpture "Ecce Homo" and remainings of wall paintings from Middle Ages. The oldest coat-of-arms of Košice is situated above the door leading to the vestry. For a while, the chapel served as a Slovak Church whereas the Cathedral was a German and Hungarian church.