Prague 5: The thirteenth year of the renewed May festivities at the Lesser Town Cemetery
25.05.2022 8:38 | Press Release
On Sunday, the thirteenth year of the renewed May festivities took place in the Malostranské cemetery. Councilor JUDr. Petr Lachnit.
The existence of a special spring holiday “May Festival” came about by chance while getting acquainted with the history of the Lesser Town Cemetery. They began to be celebrated in 1807 and ended in the second half of the 20th century. Part of the May festivities in the 19th century was the regular publication of leaflets for visitors with religious-philosophical texts. The founder of the May festivities, Mr. Václav Veĺeba, wrote them himself and supplemented them with simple drawings.
The thirteenth year of the May festivities at the Malostranské cemetery was originally opened by a speech by Councilor JUDr. Petr Lachnit:
Ladies and gentlemen, dear guests,
it used to be a common custom to gather at important buildings on the anniversary of their construction, opening or opening. Because both buildings and cemeteries have their destinies. His times of glory, times of oblivion, times of decay and times of renewal. The more important ones have their genius loci. The Lesser Town Cemetery undoubtedly has its genius loci. A small, but without it we probably can’t imagine the panorama of Bertramka.
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The buildings and cemeteries are magnificent and modest, beautiful and ugly. That’s because people built them. People also breathed life into them. It was the people who determined their fate. You will be affected otherwise by prisons, otherwise by hospitals, otherwise by an important office. The cemetery should work otherwise. This does not mean that, for example, a prison building must have an ugly architecture. It is, in turn, people who have given it a grim character for its use. It has happened many times in the history of mankind that the monastery has ceased to serve education and soldiers or prisoners, old lonely people or the sick have moved into it. We also know sports stadiums that have turned into prisons, concentration camps. The architecture has not changed, the use has changed, and thus the atmosphere of the building.
The Lesser Town cemetery is simple. He has no ambition to become a symbol of power. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy to form an almost friendly relationship with him. He is kind, kind and modest. We like to go to him. Not just for beautiful sculptures. Mainly for human consolation, for the better in man.
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author: PV