Every famous mining town deserves to keep its past tangible. Things are going well in Pezinok thanks to the popular Pezinský Permoník event and the Banská educational trail.
This educational trail mostly leads through the forests of the Small Carpathians. It starts at Zumberg – at the site of a defunct settlement north of Pinel Hospital. Its creation dates back to the 14th-15th centuries. Today, only the statue of Christ the Lord, located near the demolished church, is a silent witness of life in the settlement.
The next stop is Fabián's mill and paper mill. We register several mills in the Pezinok district - in addition to classic flour mills, there are also mills for crushing ore, the so-called stupas. Fabián's mill was used to produce paper for the paper mill founded by the Pálfi family in 1620. Continuing the journey, you will learn more about gold mining in Pezinok. In addition to it, pyrites and antimony gradually began to be mined. Well-known tunnels were Marianna, Jozef and Terézia. Their gold resembled Arabian gold in quality.
The next point on the route is legendary "Brush", which arose from buildings iron baths. When the spa closed in 1923, they began to house mentally ill patients - initially only men. The women's and children's departments were gradually added. But the local spas were so famous that the trail also pays special attention to them. We learn about them for the first time already in 1590, later a bath house and cabins with tubs with heated iron water were added. It was said to cure dropsy, kidney sand, joint pain, paralysis, hypochondria, prolonged fevers, rashes and wounds.
The trip continues to the top old castle where, according to older sources, was the Pezinok medieval castle. Newer research says that only a defensive tower stood here and locates the castle higher in the mountains above the Cajlanská valley. At home in this beautiful region, in addition to big game, there were also foxes, badgers, wild cats, wild boars, wolves, bears, martens, martens, and even fallow deer, originally from Asia. Another information board mentions mineral wealth. In addition to gold, pyrites and antimony, the minerals Pezinsk kermesite, valentinite, chapmanite, skorodite, gudmundite, tetrahedrite and others have become world-famous.
The next stop will tell you when mining began in the area antimony and pyrites even when mining started to decline. We will reveal that the antimony mines in Pezinok were only closed in 1994. A very interesting part is also the educational board about the local fauna. Through their activities, people turned part of the forests into vineyards, the other part was overgrown with beech trees, and the original mixed forest was preserved only rarely.
One of the last stops is calvary, which we learn about already in 1754. At first there were only three wooden crosses, over time a brick chapel was added. Of that, only the rotunda has been preserved to this day. They are an integral part of the location oysters – stone rows, which were created by the cultivation of the soil and were used by the winegrowers to define the borders of the vineyards. Kamenice also partially prevented the erosion of the slopes on which the vineyards were planted.
You will pass on the way to Pezinok Chapel of St. Rosalie from 1730, which was probably created as a memorial to the great plague epidemic. It hit the city between 1711 and 1713.
