In 1851 Štúr's older brother Karol, a teacher and pastor in Modra, died and left seven children. Ľudovít moved to Modra to bring them up, on almost no money and under police supervision — the authorities regarded him as a dangerous man and kept watch on him. On 22 December 1855, out shooting near the town, he tried to jump a stream, his gun went off and wounded him, and he died of it in Modra on 12 January 1856, aged forty. He was buried here on 15 January, and his grave in the town cemetery has been a place of national pilgrimage ever since; his papers and belongings are kept in the town by the Ľudovít Štúr Museum, a branch of the Slovak National Museum.V roku 1851 zomrel Štúrov starší brat Karol, učiteľ a kňaz v Modre, a zanechal sedem detí. Ľudovít sa presťahoval do Modry, aby ich vychoval — takmer bez peňazí a pod policajným dozorom, lebo úrady ho pokladali za nebezpečného človeka a dávali si na neho pozor. 22. decembra 1855 sa na poľovačke pri meste pokúsil preskočiť potok, vystrelila mu pritom puška a zranila ho; 12. januára 1856 na to v Modre zomrel, mal štyridsať rokov. Pochovali ho tu 15. januára a jeho hrob na mestskom cintoríne je odvtedy miestom národných pútí; jeho písomnosti a osobné veci opatruje v meste Múzeum Ľudovíta Štúra, pobočka Slovenského národného múzea.
