Statue and waterfall on the Gellért hill
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The Gellért-hill The first recorded names of the hill in the
Middle Ages were Kelen-hegy, Gellért Hill was named after Saint
Gerard who was thrown to death from the hill. The Gellért mountain
belonging to The Buda Hills largely to Budapest XI.th district, his
smaller northern part can be found int the I.th district of
Budapest. From east the Danube, from southwest the Sas mountain,
from northwest the Nap mountain, from north the castle hill borders
it though. At his northeast end The Erzsébet bridge, his
southeastern end the Szabadság bridge can be found. The dolomite
rising above Danube with 139 metres boulder one of the members of
the chain extending on South-Buda for which his substance formed in
the upper triad called head dolomite, but his mountains groved out
later, in the Pleistocene, and broke up along the local tectonic
line. The caves of the Gellért mountain came into existence with
the help of the breaks and the hot water leaching. The Szent István
cave is the most famous of them, which hosts Paulite monk order
chapel today. Gellért Hill also saw action in the Second World War
and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, when Soviet tanks fired down
into the city from the hill. Indeed, battle scars still pockmark
some buildings in Budapest. There is a small military museum in the
Citadel’s grounds. At the end of Citadella is the Liberty
Statue (Szabadság Szobor in Hungarian), a large monument erected by
the Soviet Red Army to commemorate their victory in World War II.
Now an affluent residential area, a number of embassies and
ambassadorial residences line the streets which wind up the hill.
Since 1987, the area is listed as a world heritage site as part of
"the Banks of the Danube".
The Statue Nearly 7 metre high bronze statue which looks
across Pest from the side of Gellért Hill stands in the middle of a
crescent-shaped arcade. The evangelist and bishop St Gerard is
raising a cross towards the sky in his right hand while a Hungarian
pagan warrior looks up at him from his feet. Gyula Jankovits was
the sculptor of the Gerard figure, and Aladár Gárdos formed the
pagan in 1904. Imre Francsek prepared the architectural plans for
the composition. The Statue of St Gerard is one of ten statues
endowed by Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.
Its height was originally planned to be 3 metres, but it was
suggested its size should be increased to 10-12 metres so it would
not be dwarfed by the hill. The saint Gellért sculpture forms a
wonderful band, which develops into a waterfall under the
sculpture, from the mountain with a budding natural source.
World-famous the medicinal baths which can be found at the foot of
the mountain: the country's most elegant spa, Gellért bath and two
Turkish age baths, the Rudas bath, and the Rác bath.
Saint Gerard Venetian Benedictine monk, one of the chief
Christian evangelizers of Hungary. He was a scion of the Morosini
family and served as bishop of Csanád in southern Hungary. In the
struggle for the throne that followed the death of Stephen I,
Gerard became a martyr. In his youth Gerard studied at the
Benedictine monastery at San Giorgio Maggiore near Venice. In 1015
he was chosen to be abbot of the monastery. He soon retired from
this position, however, first to live in seclusion in Istria, then
to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. During his travels he arrived in
Hungary, where at the request of Stephen I he undertook the
education of the king’s only son, the young prince Emeric
(Imre). In 1030 the king appointed Gerard first bishop of Marosvár
(Csanád), where Gerard founded a monastery, a cathedral, and a
school for priests. Gerard converted many Hungarians to
Christianity. It was probably in this period that Gerard wrote his
Deliberatio supra hymnum trium puerorum (“Meditation on the
Hymn of the Three Young Men”), the oldest surviving work of
Hungarian theological literature. When Emeric was killed in a
hunting accident in 1031, Stephen appointed his nephew, Peter
Orseolo, to be his successor. But when Stephen died in 1038,
anarchy ensued as various parties vied for the crown. Gerard stood
up against both Peter and the usurper Samuel Aba, a native
Hungarian, for control of the throne. Peter reclaimed the throne,
however, with the help of the emperor Henry III. During the pagan
uprising of 1046, Gerard and Peter were both killed. Gerard’s
carriage was pushed down the side of Kelen Hill (today Gellért
[Gerard] Hill, in central Budapest on the right bank of the
Danube), his body was pierced with a lance, and his head was beaten
on rocks. He was revered as a martyr by his supporters. He was
first buried in Pest, but his body was moved to Csanád in 1053. He
was canonized in 1083. The original legendary account of
Gerard’s martyrdom was written about the time of his
canonization, but no record of it remains. Later accounts include
the 12th-century Minor Legend and, after a number of revisions, the
14th-century Major Legend; both are valuable sources for Hungarian
history. Árpád-kori legendák és intelmek (1983; “Árpád,
Legends, and Admonitions”) includes translations of these
retellings. Gerard’s name is immortalized by the place of his
martyrdom, the Gellért Hill in Budapest.
Informations:
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http://www.wikipedia.org/
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