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There was [hired] help at my Bratislava grandparents’ house [maternal grandparents’]. They lived on Michalska Street, there, where the Ruefa travel agency was. There’s a very nice store there, a branch of N. Neumann, a Viennese ready-made clothing company.
My grandfather was the head of that branch. It was once considered a very nice, very elegant men’s clothing store. They lived there, too. The residence was in the courtyard. The building next door had the Katarinska chapel built into it. The chapel supposedly dates from the 16th or 14th century, I don’t know exactly.
A lot of young people came here. Once, a country girl asked my grandmother if she knew of any work, because she’d like to find a position with a family. How happy she would be if she could come to this chapel every day.
My grandmother answered, that she could start immediately at our house. And really, while my grandmother was alive – because Grandpa had died – this young creature preparing for the nunnery (later she wasn’t so young anymore) stayed there beside my grandmother, always happy, satisfied because the chapel was open.
My grandfather was the head of that branch. It was once considered a very nice, very elegant men’s clothing store. They lived there, too. The residence was in the courtyard. The building next door had the Katarinska chapel built into it. The chapel supposedly dates from the 16th or 14th century, I don’t know exactly.
A lot of young people came here. Once, a country girl asked my grandmother if she knew of any work, because she’d like to find a position with a family. How happy she would be if she could come to this chapel every day.
My grandmother answered, that she could start immediately at our house. And really, while my grandmother was alive – because Grandpa had died – this young creature preparing for the nunnery (later she wasn’t so young anymore) stayed there beside my grandmother, always happy, satisfied because the chapel was open.
Location
Slovakia
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Katarina Löfflerova