Mukachevo Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/mukachevo/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:21:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Mukachevo Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/mukachevo/ 32 32 Italian Fire Mark in Mukachevo https://forgottengalicia.com/italian-fire-mark-mukachevo/ https://forgottengalicia.com/italian-fire-mark-mukachevo/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:50:17 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=751 Riunione Adratica was an Italian insurance company specializing in fire insurance and cargo-transport insurance. The company was founded in 1838 in Trieste, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. “Almost immediately branch agencies or representative offices were opened in Athens; Budapest; Graz, Austria; Leghorn, Lugano, and Milan, Italy; Berlin; […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/italian-fire-mark-mukachevo/feed/ 1 Antique Wooden Shutters in Mukachevo https://forgottengalicia.com/antique-wooden-shutters-mukachevo/ https://forgottengalicia.com/antique-wooden-shutters-mukachevo/#respond Thu, 28 May 2015 11:58:43 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1014 In Mukachevo I found several examples of antique wooden shutters and quite a few with the manufacturer’s mark. They date from before WWII. Made by Slovakian-based company: Szabó, Csonka a spol. és Társa Lučenec. Made by Vienna-based company: Woltär & Molnár. Wien. VI. LINKE WIENZEILE 40. I found an ad […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/antique-wooden-shutters-mukachevo/feed/ 0 Antique Metal Shutters in Mukachevo https://forgottengalicia.com/antique-metal-shutters-mukachevo/ https://forgottengalicia.com/antique-metal-shutters-mukachevo/#respond Mon, 25 May 2015 12:07:45 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1019 In Mukachevo I found a few antique metal shutters made by the company DUKO, which was based in Prague-Vinohrady. As they are Czech made, they likely date from the interwar period. Another grouping of DUKO shutters I also found a roller shutter made by the Budapest-based copmany Paschka. There still […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/antique-metal-shutters-mukachevo/feed/ 0 Interwar Fire Hydrants in Mukachevo https://forgottengalicia.com/interwar-fire-hydrants-mukachevo/ https://forgottengalicia.com/interwar-fire-hydrants-mukachevo/#respond Thu, 21 May 2015 10:25:51 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=972 Traces of Mukachevo’s Czechoslovakian past can still be found in the city. (During the interwar period, Mukachevo along with the rest of Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) was part of Czechoslovakia.) “In 1883, Antonín Kunz (1859–1910) founded a company in Hranice [Czech Republic] for the repair and production of small farm machinery and then specialized […]

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