Monuments - Slavec - The Paulines Monastery

The ruins of an old monastery are located by the former settlement of Gombasek near the road to Gombasecká Cave. Except for the foundations and an eight metres high wall nothing else remained of this Gothic church dedicated to Virgin Mary for future generations. All that is indicated on the information board installed for the visitors. The Paulines came to this area in 1371, upon invitation from George and Ladislav Bebek, and operated here until 1555 when they were ousted by George Bebek who took the Protestants’ side. The monastery was then modified into a fortress using castles of the lowland as a raw model. In 1567 the imperial army has taken the fortress as an act of revenge for the battle in 1566 when Bebek defeated the emperor’s army led by General Buchhein. Bebek himself was not an honorable fair-dealing nobleman as he led numerous plundering raids against villages and itinerant merchants.