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ZBÚRAŤ! MÁME NA TO ZLÉ ROZPOMIENKY“. K HISTÓRII ODBORNÝCH A POLITICKÝCH DISKUSIÍ O BRATISLAVSKOM HRADE NA SKLONKU 1. ČESKOSLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY A VOJNOVEJ SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY

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Szalay P.
Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
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2020
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vol. 68
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issue 3
491 – 515
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The study presents expert and political discussion of the planned demolition of Bratislava Castle and the Podhradie area at the bottom of the castle hill from the end of the 1930s to the mid-1940s. Using archive and journalistic texts from the period, as well as analysis of the actual architectural and urbanist plans, it describes the course of efforts to transform the historic symbol of the city, as well as the opposition and criticism of these plans. The study considers two competitions from 1938 and 1942, held under two different political regimes – liberal democratic Czechoslovakia and the authoritarian wartime Slovak Republic. Comparison of the two competitions shows the formal and content similarity in spite of regime, which defined the modern productive and technocratic thinking of specialists more than political ideology.
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STORY OF THE OLD RECTORY IN ŽILINA

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Dudáš M.
Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
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2021
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vol. 9
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issue 1
97 – 118
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The fate of the so-called Old Rectory in Žilina, situated next to the monumental Church of the Holy Trinity, was emotionally charged, controversial and, in the end, very sad. The Rectory’s architecture and construction reflected both the needs of its various owners, and many of the dramatic events that had affected the city throughout its history. Despite repeated damage by fire, the faith community always found the strength and energy to restore the building and bring it back to life. Up until 1989, the Rectory was an integral part of the community’s spiritual life, and even after then, its upper storey continued to serve as the Church’s pastoral centre and a meeting place for Christian youth activities, while the ground floor housed the city’s Tourist Information Board and a popular restaurant. The Rectory was declared a national cultural monument in 2008, just as a developer was taking an interest in the site on which it stood. At this point, the local Church authorities decided it was not worthy of salvation and swiftly lodged an appeal against the decision to protect it, downplaying the building’s historical and architectural value, suggesting that since its original Late Medieval/ Early Modern features had been lost to fire 1678, the current building, reconstructed in 1777, was of no significant value. While a decision on the appeal was still pending, the Rectory was demolished, in the middle of Saturday night, July 12, 2008. The ground on which it stood was completely excavated within a week, allowing no possibility of recovery archaeological research. Eventually, a shopping centre was built over the place it once stood. This article discusses the controversial processes that led to the building’s abrupt demolition, and explores the failure to bring charges against those responsible for its destruction, which took place contrary to the Monuments Act.
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PUBLIC MONUMENTS IN CHANGING SOCIETIES

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Edit A.
ARS
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2010
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vol. 43
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issue 1
39-50
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The paper attempts to describe a complicated history of the public monuments erected in Eastern Europe in the course of modern history - from Lenin's favourite pet-project, the Plan for Monumental Propaganda from 1918, making use of public monuments for propagation of Communism, through the wave of demolitions of a series of bronze or marble statues of pro-soviet politicians in its satellite states from the late 1980s onwards, and finally to their recent replacements by monuments representing nationalistic ideologies.
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