Events following the sad 17th century

The Hapsburgs were looking for any means to re-catholicize the people. In Trenčín (which thanks to the dominance of the Lutherans had been nicknamed the "Lutheran Rome") they tried to accomplish this by calling on the help of the Jesuits who would through the help of the archbishop soon settle at Skalka and later in the city itself. After having founded a middle school, they promoted education and culture and thus won the people over to their side. It was in 1711 when Hungary began its long period of peace. Although the beginning of the 18^th century was still marked by the four-and-the-half- year Kuruk siege of the city, flood, and consequent plague epidemics, the situation at last began to get better.

It was after the Kuruk blockage when the Emperor Joseph I. ordered that the city vote in to its administration only those who were Catholic. The Lutherans – mainly townspeople and craftsmen – were forced to attend Catholic services and processions. They would have their secret Lutheran church, also attended by their brethren from Moravia. It was not until the Toleration Patent was proclaimed in 1781, that the two faiths were made equal.