Abstract
The Charles Bridge in Prague has always been considered as one of most important symbols not only of the city itself, but of the whole country as well. One of its history's best-known moments was the battle of 1648 when inhabitants of Prague defeated the invading Swedish army.
The Swedish occupation of left riverside of the town and the battle on the bridge got a new meaning during 1848, in the context of nationalistic student uprising whose deciding battle took place at almost same place as two hundred years before. The aim of my paper is to analyse 19th and 20th century's fiction literature and other branches of culture and to answer following questions: how did the consideration of the battle changed in the last approximately 200 years? Can we in works published after 1848 find allusions to the actual events that we logically can't find in older works? Which signs of the Bohemian National revival can we find in 19th century's works? Which purposes can we find in works written in the 20th century? Is the amount of works describing the battle on the Charles Bridge written in the 19th and the 20th century comparable? If not, what can be the reasons? It is not my intention to make a literature analysis, but to find eventual changes in point of view that the popular Bohemian and Czech historical consciousness went through from the beginning of the National revival up to present days.