Holiday apartment in Trstín – Churches, Calvary and the Little Carpathians

Trstín lies at the eastern foot of the Little Carpathians. The village developed along a historic trade route through the Little Carpathians that led from Bohemia to Hungary.

Geographical setting

Northeast of Trstín, at the foot of the Little Carpathians, lies Trstínska Kalvária. It is one of the few Calvary complexes in Slovakia built between the world wars. The complex comprises fourteen Stations of the Cross in the form of steles with reliefs. They are arranged in a circle around a six-figure crucifixion group. The number of stations, their design as steles and the central crucifixion group together describe the architectural arrangement of the complex.

Culture and history

The parish church of St Peter and Paul in Trstín was built in the mid-18th century. The church contains a crypt of the Pongrác and Motešický families, who are considered the church’s patrons. The construction period and the crypt are thus connected in the surviving furnishings of the same church building.

The Baroque château in Trstín was also built in the mid-18th century. Several plane trees, birches and maple trees survive from the château’s former English park. The surviving trees explicitly refer to the former park vegetation and not to a park complex that still exists in its entirety today.

The Renaissance manor house in Trstín is a fortified manorial residence that served both economic and defensive functions. Its construction is attributed to the Motešický family. A cartouche on the chimney dates the construction of the Renaissance manor house to 5 August 1685 and its reconstruction to 15 August 1792. The two dates refer to the construction and reconstruction of the same Renaissance manor house.

Industrial history is also part of the village landscape: Trstín is home to an Orenstein and Koppel 7260/1915 steam locomotive. The locomotive was used on construction railways and later also by sugar factories. Its location in Trstín and the aforementioned former areas of use form part of its technical and historical classification.

At Hájiček, the brick Church of the Seven Sorrows of Mary was built around the middle of the 13th century; it belongs to the Hájiček pilgrimage site. Every year, a pilgrimage to the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary takes place there on the Sunday around 15 August. The Ambroziánum memorial room is open to the public. The keys are available at the municipal office in Trstín or at the parish office. The pilgrimage, the memorial room and the key arrangements are thus located within the Hájiček pilgrimage site.

Nature and trails

The Vodná priepasť is located directly in the Trstín quarry. An underground lake measuring 10 metres in length and 3 metres in depth fills the bottom of the entrance fissure. The entrance to the Vodná priepasť was later fitted with bars and filled in during subsequent quarrying work.

The Náučný chodník Hájiček educational trail comprises 1.36 kilometres of paved path or path generally designated as a trail, as well as 0.93 kilometres of unpaved path. The distance specification explicitly distinguishes between the paved or designated trail section and the unpaved part.

Other places

Other places: Veľká Paka, Trnava.

To the higher-level travel overview: Tyrnau.