Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: St. Martin

When I first saw the name Verdun, I assumed I was looking at a World War I memorial, but in fact, this was the earlier battle of Verdun from the Franco-Prussian War.

Here's an alternate shot to Picture 2, zoomed in and at an angle.

The previous shot was actually of the rear of the church. This is actually the front of it, at least as seen from the street. The church is behind a large park at the far outer border of Neustadt (from the looks of it).

Finally, in a last-ditch effort at the end of the day, I made one last attempt at finding the tower in Neustadt. Instead, I found this church, and I ended up being late, as I said earlier. This church does not appear to be very old, but it was interesting for its war memorial plaques, if nothing else, that primarily were for the imperial conflicts, most of them typically stupid, of the 1860's and 1870's, including the Franco-Prussian War.

Here's the Czech-language plaque on the Kostel sv. Martin.

This is the Dean Church of St. Martin, which from what I can roughly gather from the Czech plaque on it, can trace its ancestry back to 1294. If anybody could translate the plaque (in the next shot), then maybe we could learn a bit more. :-)

Here's a rear view of the cathedral.

Although the site dates to Roman times, and was in fact the site of a Roman Church, the current St. Martin's Concathedral (formerly St. Martin's Cathedral) dates to 1221, although it was renovated in the 14th, 15th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Originally, it was incorporated into the city walls, of which you can see the remains on the left. In the days when Bratislava (then Pressburg) was the capital of Hungary(1563-1830), it served as the coronation chapel. Maria Theresa was one of the better known monarchs crowned here.