History talks - page 6 - The Slovak Spectator

Keeping silence in Paradise

Lapis refundii, or the Rock of Refuge, is a well-known notion in Slovak history, connected with the ancient era of Tartar raids.

Branislav Chovan

Renaissance gem of Upper Hungary

The Habsburg imperial court belonged among the mightiest in Europe but at home, its position was not always easy.

Branislav Chovan

The shame of Slovakia

Deep in the Low Tatra mountains, one of the most picturesque spas in Slovakia used to stand.

Branislav Chovan

History is like a very long story of which nobody remembers the beginning quite clearly. This is especially true in cities where monuments commemorating older events are usually replaced by newer ones.

Branislav Chovan

Castle, monastery and town

Kláštor pod Znievom is a small town lying in central Slovakia, in the historical province of Turiec. Its name recalls the time when “the great history” was written here.

Branislav Chovan

Books of Jasov

Among the components of a medieval monastery was normally a library with scriptorium.

Branislav Chovan

Shock in the monastery

The Benedictine monastery in Hronský Beňadik lies very close to Slovenská Brána, a sort of canyon through which the Hron river leaves the Žiarska Dolina valley and flows further to the Danubian lowland.

Branislav Chovan

Musical message from Šariš

In this photo from 1909, a band from the region of Šariš is posing. According to the plate one of the musicians is holding, it is clear that the picture was taken somewhere in Bohemia.

Branislav Chovan

Juraj Gábor and his page from the sketch-book

Photo

Artists try to revive 100-year-old Tatra sketches

A Great-Hungarian army officer Gyula Hembach sketched the views from his hotel room in Tatranská Lomnica in the High Tatras, and the surrounding vistas.

Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská

A sentence for forgery?

In this very old postcard from 1902, the vista of the Upper Liptov-region town of Hybe can be seen. Both signs that are visible – Kriván and Hibbe – reveal something about history.

Branislav Chovan

Herdsmen’s country

Only a few dozen years ago Liptov looked as it does on this postcard from the 1930s. Under the mountainside spread endless pastures dotted with wooden hay sheds.

Branislav Chovan

A clown under the castle

In the past, the most frequently photographed object in Bratislava was the castle. Its pictures taken from the Petržalka side of the Danube river are well-known but those made from the other side, from the Small Carpathians, are slightly more rare.

Branislav Chovan

A greeting of stylised smiths

THE FIRST smiths appeared in Slovakia sometime in the 12th or 13th century, and some of the last could be found around the mid-20th century.

Branislav Chovan

Lumberjacks from Hauerland

Horná Štubňa belongs among the villages of the German-language belt in Slovakia, close to the famous ancient mining town of Kremnica. This area is composed of 24 villages and known as Hauerland.

Branislav Chovan

The power of the Hussite tradition

ALMOST all wooden churches in Slovakia are located in Orava or in the east of the country. There is one exception, though – the gothic church of St. Nicholas in Bánovce nad Bebravou, which is partially built from wood.

Branislav Chovan