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Two storey building in the Baroque and the Classic style of town's palace type is dated from the years 1779 - 1780. The building was erected after designs by J. Langer of the Bratislava Chamber of Builders. The facade is richly decorated with pilasters. It is completed with a triangular tympanum, where the coat of arms of the town is placed. |
| The passage is dome-shaped with flat vaulted ceiling. A staircase with broken centre is decorated with conic balustrade and Rococo forged gate. The memorial tablet of red marble placed on the landing reminds of the Kosice native Juraj Szatmári, the primate of Hungary at the turn of the 15th and 16th century, later the primate of Ostrihom and king's chancellor from the year 1492. On the corners of the parapet there are two stone sculptures of angels. The ceiling of the staircase is dated from the year 1781. There is a painting of an allegory of Hungarian justice on it. In the former chamber hall the ceiling portrays the celebration in honour of the government of Maria Terezia. Both of these paintings were made by the master Erazmus Schrott. |  |
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In fact it is not the oldest of Kosice's council offices. In the mid-1920's the municipal authority vacated this building and set up the city library here in 1928. After 1989 it was renamed after the former Mayor of the City and poet Jan Bocatius. It functioned as the library until 1996, when the city authority decided to re-occupy the building. |
/place: Main Street 59/
MAP of the historical City centre
/(1) Historical photograph from book KOŠICE 1780-1918/
/© Photo: (2) Alexander Jiroušek, (3) Marián Krlička/
