Krönungsfeierlichkeiten Preßburg 1563 - 1830 |
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6 April 2025 - Pressburg
I came here to Bratislava to run a half marathon with only rudamentary knowledge of Pressburg, the city that this was before the end of the first world war. Did you you know that they thought about renaming Pressburg "Wilson City" after America's idiot president that gave birth to the plague of nationalism? Reading Coronation Festivities of Pressburg, which I picked in St. Martin's church where Hungarian monarchs were crowned for three centuries, I feel even more like this city had a worse fate even than Danzig. Not only was the city stolen by a minority from Germans and Hungarians, but every effort was made by Slovak nationalists and then communists to erase its history. This book is of the coffee table variety, with many pictures and bits of text. It chronicles monarches, the coronation process, and the route they proceded on after the initial ceremony. I learned that there are even little brass crowns in the streets marking the post-coronation parade route. In terms of the books-about-a-city genre there's a lot to be desired with this book, but I still found it elucidating.
