jaro gruber ;-): wedding in SK ~ sväty jur (st. george)

Saturday, March 1, 2025

wedding in SK ~ sväty jur (st. george)

wedding in slovakia, SK. celebration in svaty jur, only 14 km north to the capital bratislava, SK

marriage of two digital natives => enjoy their online invitation 💕

the church in bratislava-petrzalka was in a sports hall => wtf?

the wedding location / wine bar svätojurska viecha in sv. jur (st. george)

the (wedding) city sväty jur in the wine region small carpatians

is just 14 km away from capital bratislava

folks, i've spent 5 days in slovakia, 2 of them i've worked online. i've written a lot abt bratislava (pressburg) already many times before, didnt i? so what abt the city of sväty jur (st. george, st. georg)? it was 1st mentioned in writings in 1209 and they have wineyards, wine shops and wine pubs ... anyway, at the wedding the folks didnt drunk much wine, but rather the tasty local beer from nearby stupava and various kinds of booze ... the next day after a nice breakfast we have seen the medieval city walls, the palffy castle, castle brewery, a catholic religious prophet who walked quite confused around and preached in his opinion the 'real christian values' which are not twisted by today's catholic church ... you know me already, dont you? of course i've had an interesting conversation with that guy about god, zeitgeist (spirit of our time) and the universe 😇

enjoy few pictures and one short dancing video. i will sort them in the following order:

on the road

bavaria, germany, DE
braunau, austria, AT

my mobile office in hotel albrecht, bratislava, SK. it is a modern hotel with a great cuisine in a historical building today.
wedding ceremony in a sports hall's church in bratislava-petrzalka
wedding celebration in an event location in the approx 6,000 souls small city sväty jur
hotel maxim in sväty jur especially with arts by the artist and hotelier mr. laco minarik
sightsseing in sväty jur

the most streets are up the hill
looks like a prison, but it is the local fire station
the palffy castle. of course you cant remember, but i've shown ya an another palffy castle in 2016 here
one of the many wine pubs out there. a really nice one if you asked me. it felt like a museum. btw, in eastern slovakia & hungary we do have nice wine cellars even if prefer schnapps & beer. here in western slovakia they apparently have wine pubs 🍷
hergott, zahlbruckner and many other german names at the old tombstones ... there have been many, many germans and jews in eastern europe before hitler's WW II, you know?

bratislava (pressburg) ~ some nice old houses / palaces
on the road in austria, AT => nice churches / medieval towers

hainburg
heimatmuseum fischamend, austria, AT

flowers ~ wel, these nice flowers were in our home in munich. however, i think flowers fit to weddings, dont they?
anything else?

bavaria, germany, DE

DE-AT border at braunau

braunau, austria, AT

hotel albrecht, bratislava, SK

my mobile office on friday

my bed was too soft, you see?

my terrace in hotel albrecht

my youngest brother and me

3 generations of the gruber men

bratislava downtown as seen from the hill at hotel albrecht

sooo tasty professional confectionery wedding cakes

my wedding postcard for the young people

my nephew is a programmer, you know? 😉

so important for wedding ... even when 1 comma is wrong😄

beautiful clouds over the road in slovakia

arts by laco minarik in the hotel maxim, sv. jur

the event location svätojurska viecha

our two wildest boys. they've closed the entry door, thus

nobody could come & go for half an hour 😁💖🍀

luncheon of the boating party by pierre auguste renoir

some guess games ...

... and some dancing

our family

3 brothers

arts by laco minarik in the hotel maxim, sv. jur

mona lisa by laco minarik

monday lisa (found somewhere on the internet)

arts by laco minarik in the hotel maxim, sv. jur

is it arts too? maybe some godess of wine, music and dancing?

day #2 => sightseeing in sv. jur begins ...

city center, sv. jur

many, many wine shops & pubs out there

who the hell was matej bel? we have learned at school in czechoslovakia s.th. about him some 40 years ago ... okay, he was not in the highest category of national heroes ... indeed, i cant remember anything ... => lets browse wikipedia => mathiass bel (... He described himself as "lingua Slavus, natione Hungarus, eruditione Germanus" ("by language a Slav/Slovak,[c] by nation a Hungarian, by erudition a German")...) ~ there is s.th. abt hungarian wines on the board, 1744 ~ eastern europe was a multi nations neighborhood, you see?

looks like a prison, but it is the local fire station

the palffy castle

one of the many wine pubs out there. a really nice one if you asked me

... inside the pub

outside ... or was it already the pub next door?

wine pub's garden

the upper church

the lordy himself (herrgott)? sorry, it was just a german language joke 😉

hergott, zahlbruckner and many other german names at the old tombstones. there have been many, many germans and jews in eastern europe before hitler's WW II, you know?

the city center's church