The dominant feature of the town and of the castle complex is the two-nave church of St. Catherine. The town castle is reconstructed and maintained. The area of the town castle has been a national cultural monument since 1970. It consists of the following objects:St. Catherine's church – originally a two-aisled late Gothic church from the mid-15th century was rebuilt from an older building from the 14th century. The church burnt down in 1560. The almost square hall two-aisled church with a south and north chapel has a sanctuary vaulted by a net vault. The double nave of the church has an astride vault with stone ribs and neo-Gothic strip painted decoration. The northern and southern oratories are accessible by a spiral stone staircase. The interior of the church is neo-Gothic from 1885, wing altars - the main (St. Catherine) and four side altars are richly decorated and gilded. The fortification of the castle is Gothic, built at the end of the 14th century as a double wall with a gate and three bastions. During Storn's restoration the walls were considerably lowered and topped with dulcimer. The fortification of the castle is followed by the fortification of the town.North Gate (Entrance Gate) – originally there was a deep moat bridged by a wooden Gothic drawbridge, later replaced by a brick. The entrance tower with a gate from the 14th century is incorporated into the castle system. The prismatic four-storey tower itself with a passage on the ground floor has crevice holes on the outside of the basement. To date, only the front wall together with the so-called pitch nose, a hole that poured pitch or hot oil onto the enemy was preserved. The northern tower consists of three floors. The lower floor was occupied by a man who took care of the castle grounds, and on the first and highest floors the guards guarded the northern entrance. On the southern facade is restored part of renaissance plasters, these are preserved in the interior.Karner of St. Ondrej – is the oldest building of the castle - from the mid-13th century. It is a two-storey circular building built in the late Romanesque and Gothic style, which consists of two parts - chapel and ossuary. The lower part of the carner was a ossuary with a Romanesque six-part vault with unprofessional stone ribs and a hexagonal bolt into which bones dug in the graveyard from older graves were placed. The upper part is from the 14th century Gothic, with Gothic stone elements and in the interior with restored wall paintings of miners and saints.Small (clock) tower – on the west side of the complex - it also dates back to the 14th century and has four floors separated by stone ledges. Baroque bells are located in the tower. Temporarily the tower was called the clock tower, when on the penultimate floor a clock was placed.Staircase bastion – entrance castle staircase and southern tower. Roofed stairs were added in the last third of the 18th century to the older base of the tower. There are bells placed in the upper rooms.Old Town Hall – originally four-storey residential tower of rectangular shape originated from the end of the 14th century, was built between the walls. After the fire, the town hall moved to the city. The undermined area of the part below the town in the 19th century and the subsequent landslide after the earthquake in 1879 caused that some buildings - even in the castle - were damaged, but most of all the town hall. Subsequently, in 1887, two floors of the town hall were removed for static reasons and finished with a dulcimer.Miner's bastion – on the eastern side, it has a semicircular foundation on which the polygonal superstructure stands. On the outer - southeast side is built stone coat of arms of the city. The bastion was rebuilt in the 15th century, most probably it was the rest of the chapel.

The ridge protruding from Krahuľský vrch near the confluence of the Rudnica and Bystrica streams already served the old settler as a cemetery spread around the supposed church. Its dominant position directly encouraged the fortification, which was finally built in the first half of the 13th century, probably before the granting of royal city privileges by Charles Robert in 1328. A double fortification with diameters of 55 and 70 meters surrounded the parish church and was strengthened by six towering buildings. Simultaneously with the wall, they built a late Romanesque carner. An ossuary on the ground floor has been preserved.

The rapid development in the 14th century forced the reconstruction of the fortified area into a castle, which became a citadel of the medieval city and which provided it with protection. It is probable that there was also the residence of the Comorian count, who supervised the mining activities. In 1433 Kremnica was invaded by the Hussites. The mint fell victim to them, which remained behind the city walls after the fortifications of the city. However, the loot obtained did not meet the expectations of the Hussites, as stocks of precious metals and coins were stored in the safety of the castle, which they did not conquer.

After the completion of fortification work, the late Gothic church of St. Catherine. Modifications in the second half of the 15th century gave the castle more or less its final shape. A fortification system was created, which proved its worth in the coming centuries full of power and religious disputes. Even during the Turkish threat, the city was not conquered.

In 1560, the castle was hit by a devastating fire, which caused the necessary restoration. After the fire, the town hall and the rectory moved to the city. At that time, Matúš, the guardian on the tower of the castle church, lived in the parish bastion. From 1660, the whole area was gradually adapted to the sacral function. The bell tower was given to the western (Small) Tower, later Hodinová, in the third of the 18th century the chapel was re-consecrated in the former karner, which served as an armory for a long time, and at the end of the 19th century the parish church underwent neo-Gothic alterations. In 1879, a part of Kremnice was hit by a landslide and due to static faults, the fortification walls of the castle were reduced. They demolished the upper floors of the town hall and rebuilt the Parish Bastion and the staircase to the courtyard.

The following century was a time of monumental alterations and restoration, and since 1970 the castle has been declared a cultural monument.

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