Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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SIGHTSEEING 191 diers") on the tomb. Later several other people from Vác were buried nearby who played some role in the war of independence. Soviet soldiers killed at the end ofWWII are buried in the graveyard by the road. We can also find the crypts and chapels of notable families of Vác in the cemetery; the manifestations of old and new funeral cultures mingle here. 1753-1757 by Ignác Oracsek. The work was commissioned by Bishop Károly Mihály Althann, who shared the costs with the town. The pier consists of six pedestals rising from the masonry parapet built of ashlar. The statues were not placed on the pedestals at the same time. The first one was that of St John of Nepomuk, the charter in the foundation Commemoration of March 15 in our days stone commends the bridge to his protection: "We reverently recommend this town on its knees into his patronage so that it can avoid all kinds of scandals, dishonour, shame and turmoil and be saved from epidemic, hunger and war by his intervention." In 1758-59 Bishop Pál Forgách and Prebend Ferenc Würth had some more statues carved. Some of the drawings made by József Bechert, a noted sculpture from Vác, have survived but not all statues were his work. The southern entrance of the town Coming from the direction of Budapest we can enter the town over the bridge on the Gombás Stream. The construction decorated with statues is unique in Hungarian Baroque architecture, nothing of the sort has survived elsewhere. Because of the statues the local people call it Stonesaints' bridge [the Bridge of Stone Saints]; they used to make a distinction between this bridge and the other ones (there were about two dozens of them at that time) by this name. The bridge was built between The common gravestone of the soldiers ("honvéd") who fell in the battles of Vác in 1849
