searching for a grave in eastern slovakia, SK

well, it was a sad reason for my visit in slovakia this early april .... my youngest brother + me went to einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) to find a place for my mother's grave ... but yes, it is the traditional cycle of life, isnt it? young people come, old people  go ...

the cold + rainy + snowy weather and my sad mood somehow directed my focus on ugly / destroyed / industrial stuff / ruins / death / false values (like the nasty communist propaganda in my old 1st class schoolbook) and the like ... a strange different perspective, isn't it? anyway, it did not last forever 😇

on the road. we've just crossed the hill over the stoss spa to enter 'our' göllnitz river valley

schmöllnitz (smolnik) as seen from the chapel. 

small orthodox church built by ukrainian chernobyl nuclear catastrophy refugees

the old tobacco factory 'tabacka' from 1872 is empty today ~ schmöllnitz

the former guest house pauker between schmöllnitz and einsiedel

the evangelic church in einsiedel an der göllnitz

the forest cemetery (called totengarten by the locals) bellow the spitzberg mountain

the catholic church in einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom)

cout of arms of the zips region

beergarden in göllnitz

the yellow church is in schmöllnitz (smolnik) from the northern snowy side of the stoss mountain,

the white one in metzenseifen (medzev).

gypsy colony in jasov

gypsies in jasov

the krasna horka castle from the south side of the hill over stoss

zvolen (= altsohl in german), central slovakia

the altsohl castle in zvolen was build by the hungarian king 

lajos I. nagy (louis I. of hungary / ludwig der große) in the years 1370–1382

castle in bratislava (pressburg was the original german name) in western slovakia

two of us, my father and me 🍻

it's easter time, you know?

my almost 50 years old 1st class schoolbook 💾

my no. 1 poem about a violet (veilchen / fialka) i still remember today meets communist propaganda

communist propaganda ...

the karpatenblatt is the german minority's publication in slovakia

all of us, maybe xmas 2016? or 2016?

more sad pictures here.