BRNO, BARRACK HOSPITAL, FJI MEMORIAL PLAQUE

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 Removal of Emperor FJI's memorial plaque from the wall of the chapel forecourt.

 

An article from a contemporary newspaper:
We have already criticized the administration of the city of Brno in the National Policy for the fact that in the entire period since 1918, it had never, or perhaps had the sense, to remove border stones with German markings, to completely erase the various former inscriptions of schools named after members of the family Habsburg. In the first days after the coup, these things were casually smeared with some masking paint, or knocked off the plaster, but no one thought later that these repairs should be done perfectly and with a certain dignity. It is only a matter of consideration if today, sixteen years after the coup, we have a school building on which the inscription C. k. realist František Ferdinand is clearly legible under the eaves, or something similar. The most beautiful monument to the Habsburg family is in Brno Králové Pol on the wall of the front garden of the garrison church. There is a huge marble commemorative plaque proclaiming in eternal memory that the Emperor Francis Joseph I was there. After the coup, they anointed it, but today the plaque and inscription are almost intact again.

Source: National Policy of August 15, 1934, on page 3

 

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