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World War I Memorial

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The heroic monument, built by Alajos Rigele in 1925, is a stone sarcophagus held on the shoulders by four lions. The architectural plans were made by Endre Szőnyi (Jászberény, 1885 - Bratislava, 1968) and Franz Wimmer (Bratislava, 1885 - Locham, 1953). Szőnyi and Wimmer had a joi... Read More

Nitra Castle

Building, structure

"Nytra is a city with a regular council, and after Bratislava, together with Selmeczbánya, it is the most populous and important city of the western uplands. It lies at the foot of the Zobor Hill, where the Nitra Valley, expanding into a wide plain, merges with the Small Plain, w... Read More

Tomb of Charles Lux

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Károly Lux, abbot of the Catholic Church, a teacher at a girls' school in Bratislava, where he helped found the teachers' association in 1869. He died in 1893. ; His work: The history of the 20-year activity of the Bratislava teachers' association 1869-1889. Bratislava, 1890. ; H... Read More

Pálffy Castle

Building, structure

Királyfa was once a royal estate and was named Villa Regia, and contemporary documents also mention the beautiful summer palace of King Sigismund's wife, Mária. In 1397, we find it as Királyfalu, which proves that it was once a Hungarian village. At that time, its lords were nobl... Read More

Statue of Saint John of Nepomuk

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The statue of Saint John of Nepomuk from Királyfa, from the workshop of Georg Raphael Donner, was made in the 1830s. ; The work, which was declared a monument in 2009, was restored in 2014 and erected on the site of the former Pálffy Castle, in the present-day churchyard (it prev... Read More

St. John the Baptist Castle Chapel

Building, structure

The Church of St. John the Baptist, built in 1712, was originally the chapel of the Pálffy Castle, of which it formed the southern wing. The interior of the Baroque church was designed by the sculptors Lajos Gode and Rafael Donner. After the gradual demolition of the castle betwe... Read More

Lodge of the Lodge of Silence (Csemadok Headquarters)

Building, structure

The meeting places of the Freemasons were initially noble residences, bourgeois houses or rented apartments. This was the case for a long time in Bratislava. ; From 1879, the Bratislava Lodge For Silence (Zur Verschwiegenheit) rented eleven rooms on the third floor of a hotel on ... Read More

The grave of the Reformed teacher Dénes Pázmány

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The grave contains the remains of Dénes Pázmány (1849-1921), a Reformed teacher, his wife Julianna Szelle (1857-1898) and their children, as well as Elek Pázmány (1895-1983) and his wife Eszter Németh (1896-1986). Read More

Statue of Saint John of Nepomuk

Sacral small monument

In the second half of the 19th century, statues depicting patron saints were mainly erected. These were erected to protect the village community from harm, illness and trouble at that time. In 1862, the grateful residents erected a statue of St. John of Nepomuk in memory of the d... Read More

Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary - statue

Sacral small monument

At the beginning of the road leading to the Puszta, in 1805, a baroque statue of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was erected, which was commissioned by Katalin Sárkány, the widow of János Renczes. Read More