Pozsony - Óváros

Tomb of József Barts

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Director of the Royal Hungarian National Hospital, member of the Toldy Circle, author of the Medical-Pharmaceutical Dictionary. Read More

Statue of Sándor Petőfi in the Medicus Garden

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The statue of Petőfi, erected by Béla Radnai in 1911 with donations from the city's citizens, could stand in the central square of Bratislava for barely ten years at the time. After Trianon, it was demolished, "exiled" to storage, and only in the 1950s (since there is no reliable... Read More

Tomb of King Louis and Queen Louis

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Lajos Králik (Pest, 11 Oct. 1849 – Bratislava, July 1913): lawyer, legal writer. After studying law in Pest and Vienna, he became a lawyer in Budapest in 1874. As a practical expert, he participated in the preparatory work of several laws (bankruptcy law, the parts of the draft c... Read More

The grave of Mrs. Zoltán Moravitz

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

According to the epitaph: the great lady of Hungarian child protection in Slovakia. Read More

The grave of Ivan Bela

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According to the minutes of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Church District of Dunáninnen, Béla Iván, the deputy teacher of the Bratislava Lyceum, was appointed a regular teacher there on June 24, 1910. The minutes of the regular general assembly of the church district he... Read More

County Hall

Building, structure

But the county showed how much it had progressed with the times, mostly through the construction of the county hall and the prisons. The seat (formerly the Trinitarian monastery) was in ruins, and the prisons did not meet the needs. The county appointed a delegation and on July 1... Read More

Kecske-kapu Lutheran Cemetery

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The Kecske Kapui Lutheran Cemetery is the third Lutheran cemetery in the Old Town. The first was the Michael Cemetery, on whose site the Holy Trinity Church now stands. The second was on the plot between the Konvent and Líceum Streets, where Mátyás Bél and other significant Luthe... Read More

Tomb of Charles Jetting

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Jetting Károly's name is known as the Hungarian Robinson. He was born on September 13, 1730 in Bratislava, where his father was a locksmith. He was 15 years old when his parents sent him to the gymnasium, where he finished the 5th grade. When his father died, his mother moved to ... Read More

St. Andrew's Cemetery

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

The St. Andrew's Cemetery is one of the most important, oldest and largest historical cemeteries in Bratislava. It was established around 1784, on the eastern edge of the New Town district. The cemetery, which had grown considerably in area by the 20th century, was "overgrown" by... Read More

The tomb of Károly Schiller in Harkai

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Harkai Schiller Károly, doctor of law, lawyer, son of Sámuel Schiller (a local evangelical preacher), received his doctorate in law on 26 January 1829. He died on 18 February 1868 in Bratislava at the age of 67. His dissertation is "On the Aging". His work: Opfer der Bruderliebe.... Read More