Evarist Knight of Czaykowszki
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Evarist Ritter von Czaykowszki (born April 4, 1858 in Preßburg , Kingdom of Hungary ; † January 27, 1934 ibid) was a Catholic priest and canon of St. Martin in Preßburg.
Life
Ritter von Czaykowszki, scion of an old Polish family of officers, was a native of Pressburg. First he studied law, but after his father's suicide, he decided to study priests. He initially studied theology in his home town of Pressburg and then in Vienna , where he was ordained a priest on September 1, 1882. At first he held various positions of chaplain until he was appointed pastor in the pilgrimage town of Mariathal (near Pressburg) in 1897. Here he was the initiator of the renovation work on the pilgrimage church, which won the hearts of pilgrims.
Since after the unfortunate departure of pastor Vincent Havlicsek (1849–1922), the Blumenthal parish had been orphaned for two years and was only poorly administered by pastor Johann Juriga-Jerényi, Czaykowszki came here on April 21, 1901 after his election and appointment. Czaykowszki led an exemplary priestly life, took care of the individual parishioners intensively. He had the rectory extended by an annex, bought many liturgical priestly vestments and in 1907 made a special contribution to the construction of a new Marian altar, where the miraculous image of the Mother of God of Good Counsel was newly housed. In 1913 the 25th anniversary of the construction of the third Blumenthal Church was celebrated under his leadership.
In 1917, Czaykowszki decided to erect a so-called "war altar" in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava. At his instigation and his mother Risa, the cathedral altar of the Holy Cross was transformed into a war altar, which they both funded with their own funds. Czaykowsky wanted to use this altar to express his desire for peace in the midst of the scary war . The consolation should be expressed by five uniformly conceived reliefs of Christ, who, dressed in a purple cloak, shows his heart with the typical gesture. The peculiarity of this altar was undoubtedly the carved wooden reliefs in four rectangles on the side wings of the altar. Three of them portrayed a soldier in a hussar uniform : first he says goodbye to his wife and family, then he fights with an enemy of the war and finally he dies wounded on the front line, cared for by a priest. In the fourth relief in the lower right rectangle, Emperor Franz Joseph himself prays in front of the divine heart. While the war altar was viewed with confidence by many people during the war, certain circles in society developed an aversion to monuments of the Danube monarchy after the war . On February 13, 1920, the vandals deliberately damaged the altar reliefs. The police investigation remained inconclusive. Then the altar had to be dismantled.
After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Czaykowszki, a staunch legitimist and supporter of the Danube monarchy, was unable to cope with the changed political conditions in the newly founded Czecho-Slovakia . The now predominant Czech and Slovak element was alien to him and that is why he gave up the pastorate in Blumenthal on August 1, 1920 after 19 years of activity and retired to his old place of work in Mariathal.
In June 1927 Czaykowszki was appointed canon at the Cathedral of St. Martin. He died on January 27, 1934 in Pressburg. His remains were buried in the St. Martin's cemetery in his hometown.
literature
- Augustin Pozdech: Akt žila naša farnosť v minulosti , Bratislava 1948.
- Anton Klipp: Pressburg. New views on an old city. Karpatendeutsches Kulturwerk, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-927020-15-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Anton Klipp: Pressburg ..., p. 124
- ↑ Jozef Halko: The war altar in St. Martin to Bratislava in Revue Monuments and Museums, Bratislava from April 21, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czaykowszki, Evarist Knight of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic priest and canon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1934 |
| Place of death | Pressburg |