Pedestal of the Millennium Monument (Árpád Statue)
Pedestal of the Millennium Monument (Árpád Statue)
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
GPS coordinates:
45.6341595046, 25.5929330002
History
The 21.5 metre high monument to Árpád, the leaders of the Hungarian tribes, was built in 1896 on the suggestion of historian Thaly Kálmán, based on plans by Berczik Gyula. At the top of the Doric column on a cylindrical pedestal stood a 3.5 metre high stone statue of an Árpád-era armed warrior. The statue was the work of Jankovics Gyula. The pedestal was decorated with the date of the arrival of the Hungarians and the Hungarian coat of arms. The monument commemorated the millennium of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin.
In 1902 the monument was vandalized with pickaxe, after which it was surrounded by a fence in 1903. In 1913, Romanian terrorists from Bessarabia attempted to blow up the monument with dynamite. The pedestal and fence were badly damaged in the attack. The column was finally toppled by a storm a few months later. The city had planned to renovate it, but the outbreak of World War I and the Romanian occupation thwarted the plan. Today, only a circular sector of the lower part of the cylindrical pedestal can be seen. Some of the pieces of the monument have been transferred to the Brassó History Museum, while the head of the statue is in the building of the Hungarian Lutheran congregation in the city.
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