16th–17th century A Lutheran town with a tower of its ownLuteránske mesto s vlastnou vežou

The Reformation took hold among the German burghers of Spiš in the sixteenth century and stayed. The free-standing Renaissance bell tower beside the church belongs to those prosperous years. Towns all over Spiš built them, putting their bells in a separate structure with a decorated attic storey rather than on the church itself. It was partly practical and mostly a boast: the tower was what the town could afford, and it was the town that paid for it.Reformácia sa medzi nemeckými mešťanmi na Spiši ujala v 16. storočí a zostala. Voľne stojaca renesančná zvonica pri kostole pochádza z týchto úspešných rokov. Stavali si ich mestá po celom Spiši: zvony dávali do samostatnej stavby s ozdobnou atikou, nie na kostolnú vežu. Sčasti to bolo praktické, väčšinou to však bola chvála — zvonica ukazovala, na čo mesto má, a platilo si ju samo.