Memorial to the Millennium of Hungary
Memorial to the Millennium of Hungary
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
destroyed
Historical Hungarian county:
Szolnok-Doboka
GPS coordinates:
47.1426716209, 23.8750718973
History
On 12 November 1897, the column commemorating the Millennium of Hungary was erected in the main square of Dés. The monument was built on the initiative of Szilágyi Albert from public donations. The statue made by Berczik Gyula was a 10 metres high column on a 2 metre high granite pedestal, topped by a sphere and surmounted by a brass turul bird with outstretched wings. A quote from Gyula Pál was carved on one side of the pedestal:
Not the whim of fate,
But heroic strength, wise wit
Kept our homeland for a thousand years,
Keep it for ever and ever!
and on the other side: In memory of the 1000 years of Hungary.
After the Romanian invasion, on the night of April 4, 1919, the turul disappeared from the top of the column, and in 1934 the pedestal was smashed.
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