Water Barracks
Slovenská národná galéria
Water Barracks
Slovenská národná galéria
Original function:
barracks
prison/jail
Address:
Rázusovo nábrežie
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
GPS coordinates:
48.140288, 17.108644
History
The Baroque building of the barracks was built in 1763 according to the plans of Franz Anton Hillebrandt. It could host two entire infantry regiments.
The building was also used as prison. Baron Mednyánszky László, a major in the Hungarian War of Independence between 1848 and 1849, spent his last night in its prison cell. Under his command the small Hungarian garrison of Liptóvár resisted the Imperial army of Simunich for more than four weeks. He and his fellow soldier Gruber Fülöp were hanged by Haynau on June 5, 1849 on Mount Donkey (Szamárhegy). This made them the first victims of the terror of Haynau, who was entrusted with the bloody retribution carried out after the fall of the Hungarian Revolution. Mount Donkey is now occupied by a monstrous Soviet monument called Slavín.
The Hungarian author Madách lmre, the writer of the famous play The Tragedy of Man, was also imprisoned here, just as the Lutheran pastor and Hungarian revolutionary Rázga Pál, who was also executed on June 18, 1849.
The southern wing of the barracks facing the Danube was demolished in 1940. After World War II the Slovak National Gallery occupied the building. lt got its new "modern" wing between 1969 and 1977.
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