Kostol Najsvätejšej Trojice
Slovakia
You find the church outside the old town walls, not inside them, and that placement is the first thing to understand. In 1682 an imperial commission dictated where Kežmarok's Protestants could worship: beyond the ramparts, past the Upper Gate, beside a stone inn dating from 1593. Five years later, in a letter of 24 May 1687, Count Štefan Csáky, captain of Upper Hungary, ordered the townspeople to start building at once. What stands there now is a log structure of red spruce laid out as an equal-armed Greek cross, roughly 34.68 metres long, 30.31 metres wide and 20.60 metres high. No metal fixings were used, only wooden nails, wedges and pegs. It has been a national cultural monument since 1985 and part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing since 2008.
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