Here you will find a related online catalogue of the sites during the project period.
🌍 Welcome to the Central European Memory Catalogue! 📜
Step into the heart of Central Europe’s shared history with our brand-new online catalogue, now open for everyone to explore! This unique collection highlights the stories, places, and figures that have shaped our region over centuries.
📊 What You’ll Discover:
- 338 detailed map points spanning Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland, each offering a unique glimpse into the past.
- 12 thematic categories, including legends, national milestones, and cultural transformations.
- 100+ historical narratives, weaving together myths, facts, and key events that define Central European identity.
- Stunning visuals: Over 300 curated images to enrich your journey through history.
✨ Why Visit?
This catalogue isn’t just a resource—it’s a living connection to our past. Designed for historians, students, and anyone curious about the roots of Central European culture, it invites you to explore the narratives that bind our nations together.
🔗 Start Your Journey:
Click here to dive into the stories and map points that bring Central European history to life!
The story of the beginning
Collective memory on beginning of the nation and the state.
- Myth of the Hungarian Land-taking
- Polish national myths
- Three Lives of Czech Myths
The patrons and guardians of the land
National and common patrons in Central Europe.
- St. Stephen and others – First christian saints in Hungarian Kingdom
- St. Adalbert
- Patrons of the Czech Lands
The myth of national disaster
The remembrance of the national disasters in Central Europe.
- „The vast cemetery of our national greatness” – The Battle of Mohács
- „No. No. Never.” – Treaty of Trianon
- The Battle of Maciejowice
- Ribbentrop-Molotov pact
- The myth of White Mountain defeat
- Munich Agreement
Creation of the modern states (1918-1920)
Formation of modern states in CE through key national leaders after the first world war.
- Arrival of Horthy
- The arrival of Piłsudski in Warsaw
- The creation of an independent Czechoslovakia
The emancipation of women
Women’s emancipation in Central Europe through education and political rights.
- Terezia Brunszkvik and the First Hungarian Kindergarten
- Margit Schlacta, the first woman to be elected to the Hungarian Parliament
- Polon and Rad – Maria Skłodowska-Curie
- Women political rights in Poland
- Women education in Czechia
- Suffrage movement
The emancipation of minorities
Central European minorities achieve recognition and rights.
- Minorites in Hungary
- The birth of Zionism – Chibbat Syjon
- The difficult search for multiethnic coexistence
The Holocaust
The Holocaust’s tragic impact on Central Europe, from Hungary to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
- Brick Factory in Obuda – The Holocaust in Hungary
- The Auschwitz Nazi German Death Camp
- Rightous Among the Nations
- Racial genocide in occupied Czech lands
Dreaming about the democracy
Central European struggles and milestones on the path to democracy.
- Josef Bem Square – 1956
- Reburial of Imre Nagy (Heroes Square) – 1989
- The Gdansk Shipyard – 1980
- The Round Table – 1989
- Prague Spring – 1968
- Velvet revolution – 1989
Back to Europe together
Central Europe’s journey back to Europe through unity and EU integration.
- Begining of the V4 (1335 and 1991)
- Joining the Alliances – Timewheel in Heroes Square, Budapest
- Joining the EU figure in Poland
- The memorial of cutting the barbed wires of the Iron Curtain
Religious tolerance and intolerance
Religious tolerance and conflict in Central Europe’s history, from Torda to Mikulov.
- Edict of Torda – 1568
- Hungarian galley slaves – 1673
- Warsaw Confederation – 1573
- Autonomy of Jews and anti-Judaism in Poland
- Steps towards religious tolerance
- Religion and violence
Transfer of the culture
Cultural exchange in Central Europe through universities and intellectual heritage.
- First university of Hungary (Universities and sciences)
- Jagiellonian University
- The intersection of Europe
Pandemics
Pandemics in Central Europe: from Semmelweis to cultural and architectural impacts.
- Semmelweis – Saviour of mothers
- Plague image in Culture
- Pandemics in Czech lands
Legacy of the Jagiellonians and Habsburgs dynasties
The enduring legacy of the Jagiellonian and Habsburg dynasties across Central Europe.
- Buda – Home of the Jagellos and the Habsburgs
- „The Meeting of the Jagiellonian Kings with Emperor Maximilian in Vienna” – painting by Jan Matejko
- Culture in the Era of Renaissance and Baroque
Culture against communism
Cultural resistance to communism in Central Europe through art, music, and film.
- Stephen, the King rock opera – National emotions in communism
- Man of Marble (1977)
- The independent culture under the communist regime
Revolutions of 1848
The 1848 Revolutions: Central European fight for national and political independence.
- Revolution in Pest – The birth of the political nation
- Hungarian independence from the Habsburg dynasty
- Lvov-Tarnów-Poznan
- The Birth of the political nation