Plague Chapel of St. Rosalie
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The Plague Chapel of St. Rosalie (Slovak: Morová kaplnka sv. Rozálie) in Košice was built at the bottom of Red bank, according to work of T. Tornyossy and J. Goresch (together with J.E. Widman's collaboration) near the cemetery in 1714–1715 as the memorial of plague from years 1710–1711. 1785 was the year when the chapel was successfully erected, thanks to the foundation of priest Józef Sztolzman. In 1898Jan Balogh restored it. In that time its interier was renewed and completed as well.
A one-nave chapel of a trunk structure with a tower covered with an onion-shaped helmet with a lantern. Interior decoration is of the turn of 18th / 19th centuries. On the rood-screen beam there are statues of St. Rosalie and carvings of puttos holding an hourglass and a skull. In the main altar of 18th c. there is a modern painting depicting St. Rosalie. There are also two sie altars with statues of the Holy Virgin and St. Theresa.
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