Destroyed Statue of General Bem József
Destroyed Statue of General Bem József
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
destroyed
Address:
Piața Trandafirilor (egykori Széchenyi tér)
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5452089062, 24.5620778683
History
The Polish Bem József was a prominent figure of the 1848-49 Hungarian War of Independence, commander-in-chief of the Transylvanian army. The statue of Bem used to stand on Széchenyi Square in the centre of Marosvásárhely, but on 28 March 1919 the occupying Romanians knocked it down, damaged it and removed it along with the other Hungarian statues. In 1928, the Romanian authorities claimed that the statue had been handed over to Poland, but it later turned out that it never arrived in Poland.
At the National Defence Assembly held in Budapest on 20-21 August 1868, the proposal to erect a statue in honour of General Bem in Marosvásárhely was adopted. The competition was won by the sculptor Huszár Adolf. The pedestal was made of marble from Ditró by Szelecki Lajos.
The three-metre bronze statue was unveiled on 17 October 1880. Polish delegates were invited to the occasion, arriving by train and receiving an official salute at the station. A collection was organised for the two sisters of Bem József.
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