A few steps from the Old Town Hall is a very interesting church, devoid of towers and a presbytery. This is the Church of the Most Holy Savior or, as it is unofficially called by all citizens, the Jesuit Church. It was built in 1636-1638 by representatives of the German Lutheran Church, but was not used for long for Protestant worship. Emperor Leopold I carried out active Catholicization of the state, so the persecution of Lutherans during his reign intensified. In 1672, the church, first consecrated in honor of the Holy Trinity, on the instructions of Archbishop Juraj Selepcheni, was confiscated and soon handed over to the Fathers of the Jesuit Order.→
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