The Church of St . Katarina (patroness of the town) dominates the castle complex as well as the the town. Town castle was built gradually from the 13th up to 15th century. The defences come from 14th century and it was strengthened by bastions in the north, a small tower in the west, small tower and east -miner's stronghold and probably also a southern one. Now they are objects of north and south entrance tower, clock tower, and miner's bastion. Town castle has been part of the cultural heritage since 1970.
Church of St. Katarina is a roman-catholic church. Originally two-aisle late gothic church from the second half of 15th century was built thanks to the reconstruction of an older building from 14th century. The name St. Katarina was first mentioned in 1526. In 1560 the church caught fire and most damage was done to the tower.
The church is a Sub quadrate, hall type, two aisle church with a temple netting vault in the north chapel. There can be found a dedication keystone dated 1488. Panels of the temple are ornamented with paintings of saints and on the walls are stone epitaphs. The double-aisle of the church has a straddle vault with stone formerets and neo-gothic strip painted decorated partly with vegetable motifs. The north and south solariums are accessible by twisted stone stairs. The Organ loft on the west side of the aisle has a new organ. This organ is comparable with other European organs. The church interior is neo-gothic and comes from 1885, field altars - main (st Katarina) and four side altars are ornate and gold-plated. Under the high seat is in the wall stocked a stone breast-piece of a man (with polychrome)from beginning of 16th century. On the side altar is a late gothic sculpture of Madonna (created in about year 1500). Renaissance marble baptistery with a neo-gothic cover is placed in south chapel.
The Castle fortification is Gothic, and was built at the end of 14th century , just like double castle wall with a gate and three bastions. While strong reconstructions were substantially cut down and ended with battlements. The Town fortification is attached to the castle fortification.
North - entrance gateway. In front of the gateway was originally a deep ditch spanned by a wooden falling bridge, which was later replaced by a brick bridge. Tower getaway with gate and gate-way is from 14th century and integrated into castle parkan system. The square four floor tower with a pass on the ground floor has key and slot openings the top floor which were used as gun pits. In the middle above the entrance is a stone pitch nose and on the south facade (inside facade) is restored renaissance plaster.
Ossuary of St. Ondrej is the oldest castle building was built in the second half of the 13th century. It is a two floor building built in late Romanesque and gothic style. Initially it was devoted to St. Michal. First written mention about this chapel known as ossuary comes only from 1506. only the lower part of the ossuary is preserved and has - charnel house with Romanesque six parts vault with not profiled stone ribcages and a hexagonal keystone. Top part is Gothic and comes from 14th century. It has gothic elements and in the interior are restored wall paintings of miners and saints.
Small (clock) tower is placed on the west side of castle complex in parkan wall of the castle walls. It was built also in 14th century and has four floors separated by stone string course. In the tower are baroque bells. Temporary name Clock tower was used because on the third floor was a clock placed.
Entrance castle staircase and south tower. Roofed stairs were built out into the older keystone tower at the end of 18th century. In the top rooms are bells placed.
Town hall (former) - initially a four floored domestic tower of rectangular shape which was built at the end of 14th century and is situated between the castle walls. After a fire the Town Hall moved into the town. Undermining the town from the 19th century and consistent landslips after an earthquake in 1879 caused damage to some town buildings including the castle complex. Most damaged was the Town Hall. As a consequence of this, in 1887 two floors were removed and finished with battlements.
Miners bastion on the east side has semicircular keystone on which is a polygonal extension of the building. On the outside -southeast side is located the town stone coat of arms. The bastion was rebuilt in 15th century and most likely it is part of a chapel.
Statue of Immaculata placed between the miner's bastion and the Ossuary is a reproduction of stone statue made by D. Stanetti. The original statue is protected in the interior of the castle church. The town castle houses the exposition of Museum of coins and medals. www.nbs.sk/MMM
The Town Hall (Štefánikovo nám. 1/1). First documented mention of the hall comes from 1441.
The town repurchased the building and thanks to the reconstruction of this gothic burgher's house was rebuilt after 1738 as the Town Hall. The house was finished in the second half of 18th century. From the entrance hall on the ground floor leads a baroque staircase with shallow stages on the upstairs. There is a guild hall orientated on the main square. Inside this room is placed a ceramic stove and on the front and back side are large pictures from artist Gejza Angyal. Outside the hall is a balcony with a metal rail. In the middle of the rail is the figure of Justice.
Roman -catholic vicarage (Štefánikovo nám. 3/5) primarily a double aisle gothic house from the end of 14th century that was rebuilt in the 18th century. The third - northern - aisle was removed. In the ground floor there is a large hall with a funnel-shaped staircase. The staircase has plastic decoration and on sides are figures of St. Rozalia and St. Krištof. Those artistic pieces are probably done by D. Stanetti. From gothic evolutional phase are preserved semicircular portals, air shafts, vaults and torso of a scrolled staircase at the eastern edge between the south and central aisle. On the ground floor is preserved a porch with an iron door, stone consoles. Other pieces are covered under plasters. The main room of the vicarage is above the entrance hall, it is accessible through a horse-shoe staircase on the eastern part of central aisle. The Vicarage has a Napoleonic facade, balcony is hold with two Tuscan pillars from (18th-19th century).
Burgher's house (Štefánikovo nám. 4/7). It is a gothic house of atrial shape and has a diamond vault in the corridor. The richness of medieval elements and high art-historical and architectural value preserved in the original materials( even there were few renovations done) is visible in the stone porches (cusped, saddle) in the basement and downstairs, vaults (also from other development phases), hammered doors with cane stone paving with inbuilt flour-milling wheel in the ground-floor hall, wooden doors with sheeting, facades decorated by cuboidal lining. On the east side and functionally connected to this house is another burgher's house (Štefánikovo nám. 5/9). The houses are separated by a yard and they are connected also dispositional through a cellar. The connected house is from the end of 15th century and is a ground floor house. In its interior are preserved gothic and late baroque porches, with a renaissance carved beam ceiling, on the facade are gothic rectangle stone frames with crosswise and double crosswise.
Burgher's house (Štefánikovo nám10 /19) (Stefánikovo nám. c. 10/19). Primarily a gothic house from the end of 14th century. Till the end of 1652 it was used as the vicarage of Madonna's church (it was later demolished). Until 1738 it served as the Town Hall. It is a gothic house of atrial type. From the main hall leads upstairs to an L shape staircase with renaissance railings. The house has two cellars; the lower one is built into rock. The biggest transformation of the building was done after reconstruction in 1952-1955. In the yard is placed a stone statue of St. Florian, which was originally located on street called Kutnohorská. Behind the house is a late baroque house. It was built on the same spot as a white tower which was last mentioned in 1707 and at the end of 18th century it was rebuilt into a house. It is a three floor building which continues from the south town fortification. There is a numismatic exposition of Museum of coins and medals in this building.
Burgher's house Originaly a gothic house from the 14th and 15th century. It was placed on two ground plots. In 1568 it was rebuilt -thi is according to a date on a porch near the staircase. The building is full of art-historical and architectural elements from various development periods for example:- vaults, porches, fragments of original plaster, renaissance armoured lattice, a door with box locks, carved beam ceiling with panels (Also in this building is placed numismatic exposition of Museum of coins and medals, www.nbs.sk/MMM )
Burgher's house (Štefánikovo nám. 34/42). A gothic house from 15th century with a passage in the middle, with stone elements of developed and late Gothic style -porches -donkey back- one on frontal facade, second on the first floor, large stone window reveal. The house was rebuilt inthe 18th century.
Burgher's house (Štefánikovo nám 33/40). Originally a gothic house from the 15th century with early renaissance modifications and paintings from 1527. It has a wide passage with an arched vault, sectors and white coat Gothic portals with polychrome on the underpass were included after a reconstruction. On the first floor are displayed the facilities of the museum, the south room is called also "green" because of its painting decoration with vegetable motifs which have been restored. The painting around niche completed in grey tones was included at a later date. In the yard of the second floor is an open arcadian corridor and in the west wall of the yard is placed a reproduction of a stone heraldry. A facade from half of 18th century -Tuscan pillars and cileries support central salient of wall. On the frontal façade next to the entrance two stone consoles stand with statues of Christ and Immaculata made by D. Stanetti workshop.
On the lower -west part of the square is placed the
the complex of the Franciscian monastry - church, Loretan chapel and granary (Štefánikovo nám. 31/36). The east side of the monastery was built in 1653 thanks to the Esztergom archbishop Juraj Lippay. The monastry was built on the location of two gothic houses. In 1702 the monastery was enlarged and a tetra winged section plan with central so called paradise yard was added.
A Single aisle baroque church was dedicated in 1715, Its temple is orientated to the west.
The main altar with pillared architecture displays St. Frances of Assisi. And a large picture was recovered from a demolished parish church which is translation of the Virgin Mary made by A. Schmidt.
North from the church is Loretan chapel. It was built in 1758 and it's functionally connected with the church. The granary of the Franciscian complex is built between the chapel and church. Inside the granary are wall paintings with figurals with vegetable motifs.
The Mint(Stefánikovo nám. c. 25/24). (Štefánikovo nám. 25/24). Oldest part of today's Mint is located on the northern part of the square, it was built in the 15th century (the years documented show 1442 or 1443). The Mint complex went through changes during Renaissance but mostly at the end of 19th century after the upper gate was demolition in 1872.
North and north-west part of the complex was built in 1882-1889 with further work in 1891 it was enlarged in 1958 was west part enlarged. The previous Mint was built in the northern part of the town had started in 1329 to mint first Hungarian coins called Grosh and in 1335 also Gold florins. Known as Kremnica's florins and they minted also minted silver groshes and denars.
Burgher's house (Kutnohorská street 666/2) A three floored basement house with three track disposition and courtyard gallery is representative of the rich renaissance decoration. Central corridor has vaulting with cross vaults and stucco edges and stone ledges. Stone portals are finished with ledge. The staircase is horse-shoe shape with stone stages. Facade with sfraffito ashlar wall is characterized with circle bow window on the hip.
Burgher's house (Štefánikovo nám. 14/2). This was originally a gothic house in the second half of 15th century it was extended. In its basement is a stone spiral staircase, and the ground floor leads to a second staircase shaped in a U shape from an earlier phase - with stucco decoration of vault panels footing. On the frontal -west facade are gothic stone elements - porches, windows with stone crosswise, and hoods. White surface of facade has on hips and under the window ledge a reproduction of renaissance decoration - rigout and ess. In the left side of the facade is placed a memorial board with medallion of Jan Levoslav Bella. On the south facade is in Niche a wall painting of Birth from 15th century.
A dominant - feature of the square is the baroque plague pillar of The Trinity. Primarily it was a place of a smaller stone pillar from 1711. It was disassembled in 1761 and in 1776 it was moved to a village called Horná Ves. The Trinity pillar has triangular section plan and its main side is oriented on west. The composition is dynamic, with large number of statues (14big statues in above-lifesize shape) and statues of angels. It is an artistic piece of Dionyz Stanetti and M. Vogerle after their death was the pillar finished by Vogerle journeyman T. Mayer (1765-1772). The pillar has undergone several reconstructions last one was completed in 2006.
A baroque fountain from 18th century is placed on the northern side of the square - most probably it was also made by D. Stanetti. It has convex-concave curves in plan. There was originally a statue of Neptune in the middle. But there were not enough archival details about the statue expression exist so the middle of fountain was changed by modern sculptors. The work was undertaken between 1990-1992.
Burgher's house (Kollárova street 541/1). It is a single storey house with two rooms in the late gothic style with a wide entrance portal which leads into the entrance hall in the south part of ground-floor. Its rooms are vaulted by diamond vaults of an atrial type. The building has a restored gothic stone element with polychrome and rig-out gothic facade with a decoration.
The red toweris a three floor circular bastion and is positioned on south-eastern hip of the town fortification. The interior comes from the 1970s It has metal twisted staircase. The floors were newly created.
The town fortification clearly borders the old town centre and is connected to the fortification of the town castle.
The walls of the town fortification has a very expressive spacing composition reaching as high as 5-7meters. Originally the castle wall higher and it had a wooden courtyard gallery on the inside. The Lower Gate is square shaped with a passage on the ground floor leading to a trigger gate on the south side. Outside facades are created by architectural joint bricks.
The barbican was built out into the lower gate in 1530. It is also square shape and on the ground floor it has two passing openings - a larger one with half-round portal and a rectangular countersunk for the draw bridge which was used by carriages.
The smaller openinge has a saddle portal which was used by pedestrians. Gargoyles, pitch noses and trousers shaped gun-pit are completed on the front side by renaissance half round oriels and a stone aedicule with a polychrome relief of St. Katarina.
on both sides of the entrance gates are relief stone boards with symbols of gold (sun) and silver (moon), mining and minting tools.
Above those boards are placed ceramic figures of a miner and a minter from 19th century.
On the northern facade of the barbican tower are placed two portrait medallions. They were made in 1539 and represent Caesar Ferdinand and his wife Queen Anna.
The black tower tower is a circular, lower (double floored) bastion on the south-west tip of the town wall with little loophole openings. Each floor has only one room and they are accessible by new outdoor metal steps which are place on the inside fortification. Two gates in the north-east part of town fortification were demolished, if these were in place the fortification system of Kremnica would still be preserved nearly in pristine condition.
Roman-catholic church of St. Alžbeta - the widow was first mentioned in 1393 and was built near a hospital between 1382-1393. The gothic single aisle church has an enlarged temple and its vaults have stone ribcages. On three bolts are placed three symbols - The Hungarian heraldry of Anjou, alliance coat-of-arms of Anjou and mining symbols showing the crossed hammer and curling-irons. The church tower was built between 1712 and 1713. Older neo-gothic equipment of the church was removed in the 20th century but there is still the original gothic baptistery with baroque figural cover.
The church and its tower went through larger reconstruction in 2000-2001. Preserved is also an entrance broken gothic portal leading into church aisle. Two gothic portals were hidden under the plaster in northern wall of the church during the reconstruction works.
Secondary grammar school and Secondary school of useful art 390/4, Town cultural center 391/6, Basic school (II) 392/8 were built at the second half of at the end of 19th century. Some of them at the beginning of 20th century and all together they created the skeleton of present shape of Pavol Križko street.
Evengelistic church church built in classicistic style and its vicarage (Pavol Križko street 394/12)were buil in 1824-1826 on the foundations of a wooden church (1688) and an old vicarage -both were behind the town walls.
The altar place has a rectangular ending, the classicistic altar with pillar architecture is from the 1st half of 19th century. The facade with a central piece of wall and a semicircular sacrament has a portal with straight breast-summer. Side pairs of pilasters carry breast-summer with triangular tympanum. On the top is a metal-tipped crucifix; on its tips are stone vases
Burgher's house (Pavol Križko street 395/14).Originally a gothic arterial house, it was during the baroque and classicistic rebuilding that it was enlarged and converted. The northern facade has a balcony and a portico. In 1881-1908 the slovak writer and mining doctor Gustáv Kazimír Zechenter-Laskomerský lived in this house. He was also a botanist and he created a park next to his house - Zechenter garden.
Houses of miner's folk architecture of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century. They were ground, rustic or stone, plastered or storied -with a wooden courtyard gallery. A standard type of a miner's house has three rooms with a central corridor. In storied houses the steps placed in the corridor and they led upstairs to a courtyard gallery. Ceilings are wooden and timbered with a top shelter. Courtyards are made from wood and are supported by timbers which is a typical design of miner's houses in Kremnica and surrounding area . The roofs are a saddle shape and its shield is finished by half wagon headed ceiling or the whole roof is wagon headed. Covering were originally used wooden shingles.
Church of St. Cross on Kalvária (calvary) was demolished by a fire in 1977 and since then it has become dilapidated. Ravages of time demolished the walls so much that it was completely destroyed. The Calvary is beong gradually renovated. Climbing the Calvary the view from its observation space will repay visitors with beautiful views of surrounding hills, winding path of the railroad and the historical town. In the distance on the north side it is possible to seethe gothic church of St. Ján Baptist in the village of Kremnické Bane.