1914–1918 The bells go to the gunsZvony idú na delá

The front never reached the Spiš, but the war took its men — to Galicia and to the Carpathian passes a hundred kilometres east, where the winter battles of 1914–15 killed tens of thousands on both sides. At home the army requisitioned metal, and from 1916 church bells across Austria-Hungary were taken down and melted for artillery bronze. In a town that had been casting bells since the Middle Ages, that was a hard thing to watch. By 1918 the empire that ordered it no longer existed.Front na Spiš nedošiel, ale vojna si vzala jeho mužov — do Haliče a do karpatských priesmykov sto kilometrov na východ, kde zimné boje rokov 1914 – 1915 zabili na oboch stranách desaťtisíce ľudí. Doma armáda rekvirovala kov a od roku 1916 sa po celom Rakúsko-Uhorsku snímali kostolné zvony a tavili na delovinu. V meste, ktoré zvony odlievalo od stredoveku, sa na to pozeralo ťažko. Roku 1918 už ríša, ktorá to nariadila, neexistovala.