Executioner's Bastion
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The Executioner's Bastion is a bastion situated at Stará baštová Street in the historic center of Košice, Slovakia.[1]
Its name is derived from the fact that the bastion was situated near a medieval executioner's house. It is semicircular building with eight cannon chambers erected around the year 1500, build for defense purposes.[2] The bastion was converted in the years 1920–1930 to the needs of the East Slovak Museum.
The Memorial House of Francis II Rákóczi is a part of the Executioner's Bastion. It is a replica of his house in the Turkish exile[3] in Tekirdağ. The exhibition in the memorial house presents relics reminding the life of the last leader of the anti-Habsburg uprising, the history of the replica of his house in Rodosto and the funeral of Rákóczi and his brothers-in-arms in Košice in 1906.
The bronze sculpture of Francis II Rákóczi was unveiled on April 3, 2006 in front of the house.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bastions :: Official website of Košice". Košice. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Bousfield, Jonathan; Willis, Matthew (2010). DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Eastern and Central Europe. Dorling Kindersley Limited. p. 323. ISBN 9781405356022.
- ^ Sabatos, Charles D. (2 January 2020). Frontier Orientalism and the Turkish Image in Central European Literature. Lexington Books. pp. xv. ISBN 9781793614889.