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History

Curch Archangel St.Michael, Levice

The Esterházy family during the period from 1773 to 1780 built the Classicist parish-church of St.Michael Archangel on the site of the old church destroyed in the great fire. Over the main pediment front there is built-on a double-tower superstructure. On the straight pediment between the towers is the statue of St.Ladislaus. The Classicist altar was built in 1793 and has an illusive columnar architecture with symmetrically placed sculptures. In the middle there is a picture of St. Michael Archangel, after the painting of Quido Reni. Remarkable carved late-Baroque wooden benches from the middle of the 18th century show scenes from St.Francis’s life. The classicist epitaph of the Esterházy family with a plastic family coat of arms and inscription comes from the year 1786.

Weblinks

• Official homepage: http://de.levice.sk/