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FOTOGRAFIE BRATISLAVY - ČASŤ 10 /
BRATISLAVA PICTURES - PART # 10
| Rudnayovo Square - Statue of Jan Holly (1785-1849) - Slovak National Activist |
Primacialne Square - Archbishop's
Palace (first structure burn in 1590, current built 1778-81) |
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Memorial tablet of Pressburg Peace
signed after a battle at Austerlitz (Slavkov) where Napoleon
I. Bonaparte defeated German emperator Franz I. in 1805 |
St. George Fountain originally
stood in Archbishop's Gardens in 1614 |
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Memorial tablet of Philippus Aureolus
Theophrastus Bombastus (Paracelsus) of Hohenheim - medieval alchymist
and scholar, been visiting Bratislava in 1537 |
Primacialne Square (Old Town Hall
on right) |
| Sculpture of St. John Nepomucky (1725) - Patron of all bridges and homes and their protection of flood and river element |
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Mausoleum of Chatam Sofer (Embankment
of Ludvika Svobodu) |
| Chatam Sofer (real name Moshe Schreiber) was born in Frankfurt, Germany on September 26, 1762 and died in Bratislava on October 3, 1839. He became famous world-wide for his knowledge and wisdom. He chose position of a Rabbi in Bratislava, an important cosmopolitan city of that time, in preference to many other offers. He became a Chief Rabbi there in 1806 and remained so for the next 33 years. Mausoleum was rebuilt and opened in 2002. |
