One of Bratislava's most beautiful squares will be named after Gábor Baross from Thursday. The square and park in the central part of Slovakia's capital was named after the Iron Minister at the initiative of the Old Town Municipality, and was inaugurated in a ceremonial setting with the cooperation of the Embassy of Hungary in Bratislava and the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Bratislava.
At the sign inauguration Ernest Huska , an employee of the Bratislava-Old Town municipality's department responsible for culture, said that the capital owes it to the Hungarian Iron Minister to have a public area named after him, since the Old Bridge, which has been rebuilt several times but still serves today, was originally the József Ferenc Bridge on his initiative and under his personal supervision. was built. It is worth noting that from the park now named after him, you can reach his work, the bridge, with a small detour, symbolically intertwining the past and the present.
Zuzana Aufrichtová , the mayor of Bratislava Old Town, also confirmed that Gábor Baross deserves to have a public area named after him in the capital.
The park was recently renovated, it is a fresh color for the city, there is a pleasant fountain here Tibor Bártfai , and when the name of the park came up, they thought that this place, which once bore the name Landerer, couldn't get a more suitable name.
Tibor Pető , Hungary's ambassador to Bratislava, also praised the importance of the former Minister of Public Works, Transport and Trade, emphasizing that both nations claim him as their own, as he was born and went to school in the Highlands, in today's Slovakia, and his final resting place is also found here. And if we only look at his activity as advocating the building of bridges, we can conclude that whoever designs and builds a bridge is symbolically and in reality advocating connection, meeting each other.
He also noted that people like to walk and relax in the park in the heart of the city, many of them perhaps just looking at the sign bearing the park's name will become aware of the significance of the namesake or look up who he was.
Árpád Korpás , the vice president of the Bratislava Kifli Civic Association, presented the biography of Gábor Bellusi Baross. During his relatively short life, which lasted from 1848 to 1892, he did an immeasurable amount for the public. His reforms in the fields of railway transport, industry, commerce, and the post office were epoch-making. But his name is also associated with the regulation of the Iron Gate, the navigability of the Al-Danube, the construction of the port of Fiume, now Rijeka. In the field of the post office, he took such spectacular measures as the establishment of the postal savings bank, the Postal Officer Training School, and the creation of the first telephone line between Budapest and Vienna.
Today, the Csata elementary school in the Léva district bears his name. In Slovakia, his only statue is in Zsolná, the city of the infamous former nationalist representative who wanted to attack Budapest with tanks, but did not dare touch the statue of Gábor Baross. If you even knew who the artwork depicted…
Zuzana Aufrichtová and Tibor Pető unveiled the plaque marking the park in Bratislava, and the singing of the national anthems of both nations made the inauguration of the plaque even more solemn.
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