Calvinist Church in Plešivec

The Bebek family had a family church built in the seat of their estate sometime in the first half of the 14th century. In the Middle Ages, the church had significantly larger dimensions than today. At that time, he was not behind in anything compared to the construction of the church in Štítnik.

In 1558, when the Turks attacked Plešivec, they also destroyed and burned the church, which stood for many years as a ruin with collapsed vaults and no roof. The ruin was repaired in the first decades of the 17th century by the local reformed believers, who rebuilt it into a flat-ceilinged hall supplemented by emporiums on the western side and in the former presbytery. Its interior is decorated with frescoes that are only partially exposed to this day, which rank among the most valuable medieval wall paintings in Slovakia and at the same time the most important artifact of wall painting of the 14th century Transalpine painting. This is the high-quality work of at least two Italian masters (probably from Padua), who were invited to Plešivec by Juraj Bebek.

Despite several reconstructions, the church represents an important document of advanced Gothic architecture in Gemer in this century. Particularly valuable is the original magnificent Gothic portal through which the chapel is entered from the nave. Stylistically, it is similar to the portals of the Košice Cathedral of St. Elizabeth. In the interior of the northern chapel, there is a Gothic tombstone of Ladislav Bebek made of pink marble.

Since 2009, a comprehensive restoration of the church has been carried out, during which the roof of the northern chapel was restored to its original form, additional frescoes in the interior were uncovered, and the windows of the presbytery were reconstructed to their original form from the Gothic period.