Visiting Prague

Bruncvik statue stands aside in Charles bridge above statuary and represents a mythical knight with a golden sword, a coat-of-arms and a lion beside, who is portrayed helping a lion fight a seven-head dragon. This was made by Ludvík Šimek in 1884 according to a fragment of the original statue of Roland, erected in 1502, which was damaged during the Thirty Years´ War and sponsored by the City of Prague. This statue is intended to remind the passers-by the rights of the Old Towner’s, especially the right to take tolls and duty. Bruncvik he was a Czech ruler as legends say, who went to faraway countries to gain a right to have a stately coat-of-arms. He had a lion who accompanied him ever since he saved him and thus a lion became a national emblem in the Bohemia. Bruncvik also got a miraculous sword that protected him and could kill anybody on his demand. Legends also say that the sword was built up somewhere in the Charles Bridge and it will wait there till the country is in danger. And in 1890 a big rusty sword was really found in the bridge deck when the Charles Bridge was restored after a flood. It’s located just opposite side of Prague hotel.

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