Destroyed Memorial to Petőfi Sándor
Destroyed Memorial to Petőfi Sándor
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
destroyed
Address:
Piața Trandafirilor (egykori Széchenyi tér)
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5462594864, 24.5639295366
History
Petőfi Sándor was the poet of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. The monument was erected at the initiative of Mayor Dr. Bernády György, with donations from large contractors working in the city, at the end of November 1912, in front of the St. John the Baptist Parish and the Savings Bank (former Görög House). On the tall stone obelisk, a bronze plaque by the Budapest sculptor Kallós Ede depicted the figure of Petőfi among the figures of General Bem József and the muse, striking his sword as he marched off to battle. In 1913 the city council planned to place a Turul bird on top of the monument. The statue was cast in bronze in Budapest and part of the cost was paid for, but the First World War thwarted the project. Its inscription commemorated Petőfi Sándor's stay in Marosvásárhely: 'The sadly glorious memory that the poet set out from the capital of Székelyland on his last journey to die for freedom'.
In 1919, the occupying Romanians removed the bronze plaque, and in 1923, a statue of a Romanian soldier by the Bucharest sculptor Ion Schmidt-Faur was placed on the obelisk pedestal. The new military monument disappeared in 1940, and there is conflicting information about its fate - some sources say it was dismantled, others that it was removed by the departing Romanian invaders.
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