Revivalism II

The more prominent and politically active of these ethnic nations in the Austro-Hungarian empire such as the Czechs, tried to mold out or revive their suppressed national  identities, and some times they used architecture to revive this national sentiment.The Czech nationalist of the time looked back at the reign of Charles IV in the 13th century as the golden era of the Czech kingdom  and therefore used Neo-Gothic architecture as a way of reminding of the past greatness of the Czech state, before it absorbed in the Austro-Hungarian empire 1621.

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