Koszeg Tourist Information
This may be the only town in the world where the bells ring midday an hour early; this is to commemorate the victory that Miklós Jurisics and his heroic defenders won over the Turkish army that Sultan Sulejman was leading against Vienna. The defenders of the castle resisted for 25 days; the siege finally ended on 30 August 1532.
Jurisics Castle with its four corner towers (Rájnis József Street 9) was built in the 13th century and gained its present form after the fire in 1777. The biggest bastion of the outer castle is the Öregtorony (Old Tower), and the Zwinger is also 700 years old. In the Castle Museum we can see the arms used during the siege, the historical relics of Kőszeg and room interiors from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Kőszeg Summer Theatre programs are held in the castle yard.
Wonderful monuments surround the town centre, Jurisics Square. It is one of the nicest squares in the country: the impressive gate was built for the 400th anniversary of the Turkish siege. On the right side of Heroes’ Gate, we can see the Lábasház (Jurisics Square 2.). Almost all of the houses here are monuments. In the Castle Museum in the late-Renaissance General’s House (4-6), we can see the exhibit of craft-union relics and the works of the artisan - including those of the watchmaker, butcher, comb-maker, gingerbread maker, locksmith, barber, weaver and photographer.
The richly ornamented Sgraffitto House, with its decorative coat of arms and aspects of every architectural style from fifteenth-century Gothic to baroque, has been the Town Hall for 500 years. In the storied building of the Gold Unicorn Pharmacy Museum (11) we can see the nicest pieces of pharmaceutical history and a collection of medicinal herbs.
The evangelistic Saint Imre Church is a combination of styles. Saint James Church (Rájnis Street 3) is the town’s oldest and most beautiful monument. Its sacrarium was built in late-Gothic style and the wooden Madonna sculpture is a 15th century masterpiece. In the crypt we can see Miklós Jurisics’s tomb. Its wonderful windows and gracefully arching neo-Gothic columns make the Jesus’ Heart Presbytery Church one of the town’s most beautiful buildings.
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