T.G. Masaryk - Brezové Hory (Príbram, Central Bohemia)
N 49° 40.967 E 013° 59.399
33U E 427140 N 5503851
Depicted bronze tablet, commemorating two visits of the first Czechoslovak president T.G. Masaryk in Príbram' district Brezové Hory, is mounted on front facade of school building located in J.A. Alis Square (námestí J.A. Alise).
Waymark Code: WMVG16
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/14/2017
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Depicted bronze tablet, commemorating two visits of the first Czechoslovak president T.G. Masaryk in Príbram' district Brezové Hory, is mounted on front facade of school building located in J.A. Alis Square (námestí J.A. Alise).
The tablet donated by local mining community, work of academic sculptor Václav Šára, was unveiled on July 6, 1937.
The stone tablet on the wall bears following inscription in Czech:
Toto hornické mesto navštívil
president osvoboditel
T.G. Masaryk
jako ríšský poslanec
dne 4.cervna 1892
o dulní katastrofe
a jako president ceskoslovenské
republiky promluvil dne 24.IX.1920
na Annenském dole
významnou rec k horníkum
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Translation to English:
This mining town visited
president the Liberator
T.G. Masaryk
as Imperial council deputy
on June 4, 1892
about the mining disaster
and as president of Czechoslovak
republic had a important speech on 24.IX.1920
in Anne's Mine to miners
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czech politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, and thus referred to as "President liberator". He originally wished to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded. [wiki]