Sad Arad
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
destroyed
Address:
Bulevardul Revoluției
Historical Hungarian county:
Arad
GPS coordinates:
46.175299626, 21.317997601
History
On 8 February 1849, the Hungarian army stationed in Arad and the National Guard, led by Major Asztalos Sándor and Government Commissioner Boczkó Dániel, defeated the Austrian soldiers attacking from the castle and the Serb and Vlach irregular troops that had entered the city in a fierce street battle. 240 Hungarian soldiers died in the fighting. It was in their memory that the sculptor Aradi Zsigmond, who was born in Arad but lived in Milan, created this sculpture and sent it directly from there to Hungary.
The white Carrara marble sculpture depicts a woman kneeling to lay a wreath in memory of the city's saviours in 1849.
It was inaugurated on 8 February 1873, on the 24th anniversary of the Battle of Arad, at the northern end of Andrássy Avenue.
After the Romanian invasion, it was removed from the public area and moved to the old cemetery, next to the graves of the soldiers who died in the battles of 1849. In 1932, after the cemetery was dismantled, the damaged statue was placed in the storage of the Arad Museum. It has been waiting for rehabilitation in the museum ever since.
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