Statue of Kölcsey Ferenc
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Szatmár
GPS coordinates:
47.6828286739, 22.4683697842
History
The statue was commissioned by the town council to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of Hungary. At that time, Nagykároly was still the centre of Szatmár County. Kallós Ede's beautiful sculpture was unveiled on the occasion of the millennium celebrations on 4 April 1897 in the park of the Károlyi Castle. The statue was made from a public donation, to which Károlyi István contributed a large sum.
The pedestal was inscribed "Kölcsey" on the front and "God bless the Hungarian" on the back. It is the first line of the Hungarian national anthem written by the poet Kölcsey Ferenc. The figure was one and a half times life-size and 2 metres 20 centimetres high. The statue was cast in bronze at the State Ore Foundry in Paris.
After the Romanian occupation, the statue was vandalised in May 1933. On 30 August 1934, four Romanian extremist youths sawed off the poet's head. A few days later, on the pretext of being at danger, the decapitated statue was removed from its pedestal and transported to the town hall, where it was later melted down. Most Hungarian statues in Transylvania suffered a similar fate after the Romanian occupation.
In 1939, a Kölcsey statue similar to the one in Nagykároly was unveiled in Budapest, which was also the work of Kallós Ede.
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