Miner ´s Bastion - part of the Banská Bystrica city fortification

In the past, the city of Banská Bystrica was surrounded by stone walls for the purpose of defending the city, against enemy raids, but also against miners' revolts. Defence bastions were also an integral part of the city fortifications and city walls. The entire defence system in Banská Bystrica consisted of 18 bastions. Currently, only 7 of them have been preserved. One of them is the Miner ´s Bastion, which is located near the cemetery near the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the Square of Štefan Moyses. Bastions at that time had names according to the guilds that managed them. The Mining Bastion was named after the miners who took care of it at the time.

The Miner s Bastion is part of the city's fortification system, which was built over many decades, and after its completion, the walls measured more than 3,700 metres. They were fortified with eighteen bastions and five main gates. The fortification of the city castle played a key role in the construction of the fortification, but the fortification of the city centre was also an autonomous part of it. The first mention of the walls around the city outside the territory of the castle area comes from the second half of the 15th century; at the end of the 16th century the entire perimeter of the city was already surrounded by walls. Today, parts of the original system have been preserved in several parts of the city.