The city’s oldest surviving architectural heritage: the Roman Catholic church can be found in Andráshida, which gained nationwide attention following its 2013 archaeological excavation.
First mentioned in 1278 as the Chapel of Saint Andrew (Capella S. Andreae), the building gradually fell into disrepair and by 1617 was no longer used for mass. A significant turning point came in 1785, when it received its present Baroque form and was dedicated to All Saints. Around the same time, a small Baroque roadside chapel was also erected nearby, its altar adorned with a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk.
Although archaeological investigations had already taken place in 1973, it was only forty years later that the foundations of the original Romanesque altar—and subsequently a grave—were uncovered. The remains of the man buried there were reinterred inside the church in 2014. Today a discreet inscription on the floor commemorates him:
“According to our faith, beneath this stone rest the bones of András, son of Fábián, patron of the church in the 13th century.”
In autumn 2014, the church was re-consecrated under its current name, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

