Destroyed Statue of Kossuth Lajos
Destroyed Statue of Kossuth Lajos
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
destroyed
Address:
Piața Trandafirilor (egykori Széchenyi tér)
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.545912375, 24.5630456181
History
The 3.2 metre high bronze statue of Kossuth Lajos was unveiled in 1899. He was the political leader of the 1848-49 Hungarian War of Independence. The work by Köllő Miklós stood in the upper part of the main square, between the St John the Baptist Parish and the Apollo Palace.
Kossuth Lajos has always been respected by the people of Marosvásárhely: he was elected the town's first honorary citizen, a street was named after him, and his life-size painting adorned the assembly hall. After his death, in the spring of 1894, a committee was set up to erect a statue of Kossuth on the main square. The bronze statue, standing on a granite base and measuring 3.2 metres in height, was made by Köllő Miklós and unveiled in 1899 in front of the Catholic parish, near the music fountain.
In 1919, it suffered a fate similar to that of the Bem statue: the Romanians knocked it down and took it away. The bronze was later cast into eagle figures to decorate Romanian military monuments. The shattered pedestal was thrown into the Maros River below the dam, where it was still visible at low water levels at the end of the 20th century. The Romanians built their new Orthodox cathedral on the site of the statue.
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