after 1712 A Baroque church and a village of tradesBarokový kostol a dedina remesiel

After 1712, with the Rákóczi uprising over and the country at peace again, the Gothic church was rebuilt in Baroque so thoroughly that a whole new presbytery was made facing north–south; the medieval one was simply left standing beside it as a separate room, which is why the building has an odd double plan today. The village around it worked at trades rather than at farming: there were guilds of bootmakers, of tailors and of weavers, and a great deal of carting and timber work — hauling ore, charcoal and cut wood for the hammers and for whoever would buy. Tomáš Šteler, born here in 1640, went out as a Lutheran pastor, teacher and religious writer and died in 1715.Po roku 1712, keď sa skončilo Rákócziho povstanie a krajina sa upokojila, prestavali gotický kostol barokovo tak dôkladne, že preň vybudovali celé nové presbytérium orientované na sever – juh; stredoveké nechali stáť vedľa ako samostatný priestor, a preto má stavba dodnes svoj zvláštny dvojitý pôdorys. Dedina okolo neho žila skôr z remesiel než z poľnohospodárstva: boli tu cechy čižmárov, krajčírov a tkáčov a veľmi rozšírené bolo furmanstvo a práca s drevom — vozila sa ruda, drevené uhlie a rezivo pre hámre aj pre kohokoľvek, kto kúpil. Tomáš Šteler, ktorý sa tu narodil v roku 1640, odišiel do sveta ako evanjelický farár, pedagóg a náboženský spisovateľ a zomrel v roku 1715.