Burial Mound of Peace
More than one hundred years after the memorable battle of Austerlitz, between 1910 - 1912, a memorial to its victims in Art Nouveau style was built in the Prace hillside, the very locality of the toughest fight – the Burial Mound of Peace. The initiator of the construction was patriotic Brno priest and Moravian Napoleonist, professor Antonín Slovák; the author of the design was architect Josef Fanta, with the partnership of F. Anýž (the group of the cross) and Èenìk Vosmík (sculptural decoration). The construction was partly financed also with contributions from Russia, France and Austria. The opening, planned for 1914, was prevented by the outburst of World War I; the presentation of the Burial Mound to the public took place as late as in 1923.
Inside the mound there is a square chapel with a marble altar. Its vault produces remarkable acoustics allowing audibility of whispers in diagonally opposite corners. Under the floor of the chapel is an ossuary, where the remains of the dead found on the battlefield are resting.
The publication contains: a baseplate with marked areas to paste the individual parts of the building, historical description (in Czech only), detailed building instruction and photographs of the finished model on the rear of the book.
The building instructions are in Czech, German and English.
Detail
| Catalogue number: | 145 |
| Scale: | 1:300 |
| Dimensions of the model: | 35 x 15 x 25 cm |
| Difficulty: | 3 |
| Sheet size: | 22 x 32 cm |
| Number of sheets: | 6 |
| Number of parts: | 45 |
| Price: | 65.00 CZK, 2.21 EUR, 2.85 USD |
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