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Friday, April 7, 2023

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.

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

all hallows in SK

my last visit to slovakia was a sad one. let's come back for all hallows again. well, all hollows is maybe the only remaining custom in our wider family, where we come together easily at our family graves at the cemetery (archaic called totengarten by the locals) in einsiedel an der göllnitz / eastern slovakia / SK. all other occasions like easter, christmas, birthdays, final study degree celebrations take nowadays usually place in smaller circles. so what is still left over?

weddings
baptisms (taufe) => this category seems to disappear, too
round birthdays => already much more quiet as it was 20-30 years ago
funerals

yes, this chronology is also important. according to my age, our family is in the last i.e. 4th category right now. you could say, it is sad, couldn't you? but no, it isn't. it's just the carrousel of life. do not forget, we have had 'our time' already earlier 😇. i could not say i would regret a lot. of course, there were issues i would try to solve / handle different if i've got the chance again ... but the really important stuff like marriage / children / studies / job / etc. were a really nice experiences, you know?

now enjoy few pictures, this time also many paintings & grafitti i liked that much. pictures order? bratislava = > kosice => spa trencianske teplice (, where my wife stayed for 3 nights and i drove further to eastern slovakia) => einsiedel (= mnisek) => ruines of the beckov castle 🌐

my brother's home in bratislava (pressburg) is usually my 1st stop in slovakia, but this is the bratislava castle as seen by the slovak author / artist lukazuz, source here 😃

bratislava castle

.. and here the castle as seen by me. quite a difference, isn't it? 😇

alzbeta durinska / Elisabeth von Thüringen (auch E. von Ungarn) / Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet HU (1207 - 1231) ~ daughter of the hungarian king ondrej / andras II HU / andreas / andrew II and his wife. she lived at the bratislava castle till the age of 4, later at the wartburg castle in thuringia. she had to leave the wartburg castle after the death of her husband ludwig von thüringen. she helped the poor all her life. canonization (heiligsprechung) in 1235 by pope gregor IX.

crazy! i don't know why i've researched so much about elisabeth. now i know: in my home city kosice / kassa / kaschau (SK) is a dome named by this sacred elisabeth 😄

there is not much left from the old jewish city neighborhood. what a shame for the

communists who torn down a beautiful part of bratislava's old town for a highway!?! 😭

the not longer existing bratislava / pressburg .. so sad ....

an old synagogue and the jewish quarter

anti jewish mood & actions in 1848-1889 in trnava & bratislava

(austria-hungary), today's slovakia ... so sad 😭

1882-1883 in trnava & pressburg/bratislava (austria-hungary), today's slovakia. so sad :o(

let's better open a small window to the thai culture, will we?

this is kosice / kassa / kaschau (SK) as seen by the ukrainian artist czurej

the main street in kosice as seen by artist lukazuz (source here)

this could be maybe kosice too ...

a street artist in bratislava

a former monastery, today one of the biggest (tourist) restaurants in europe named flagship

bra-tislava

all of that is still inside the flagship restaurant / monastery complex, even the church

two of us

free assange + historical cafe aka konditorei kormuth, bratislava, SK

town hall (rathaus, radnica), bratislava, SK

napoleon's soldier still in bratislava / pressburg, SK? well, napoleon destroyed 2 strategical castles (devin and pajstun?) near bratislava on his way to russia without fight. the austrian army just capitulated before, if i remember that story correct ...