Pezinok - the center of small Carpathian region

History


From the Chronicle of the Town

The territory of today’s Pezinok was settled for the first time about 4000-3000 years B.C. There was a Celtic settlement in this area about 400-300 years B.C. The first written reference about Pezinok goes back to 1208. There were two waves of settlement by German winters and artisans, the first one in the first half of the 13th Century and the second one at the beginning of the 16th Century. In 1647 King Ferdinand III issued a charter granting Pezinok the status of free royal town and in 1870 the town achieved a special status. It was a district town from 1949 to 1960 and again since 1996. A typical feature of the town is a historic center with burgher houses, streets and remnants of fortification. Most important sights are the castle (from the beginning of 14th Century), the Parish church, the Cloister Church and the Monastery (18th Century), the Protestant Church (18th Century), the City Hall in a Renaissance style (17th Century) and the Kodiak’s House with the exposition of the Small Carpathian Museum. There are about 50 more cultural sights, which have been preserved in the town, among them the Shaubmar`s Mill (it is one of 15 water mills in Pezinok) with its gallery.