Statue of King Ferdinand I of Romania
Statue of King Ferdinand I of Romania
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
GPS coordinates:
47.0549677937, 21.9284169826
History
The statue stands on St. László Square, on the site of the statue of the founder of the town, King St. László of Hungary, which was exiled to the garden of the Bishop's Palace by the Romanian invaders after 1920.
In 1924, a statue of the Romanian King Ferdinand I (by Mihai Kara) was erected in its place, which stood here until 1940, when the town was returned to Hungary.
In 1994, it was replaced by a statue of Mihai Viteazul on horseback (by Alexandru Gheorghiţa and his wife Geta Caragiu). Mihai Viteazul was a Vlach voivode from the Wallachian Lowlands who raided and pillaged Transylvania slaughtering thousands of Hungarians between 1599 and 1600. The statue was replaced by the current one in 2019.
The equestrian statue of the Romanian King Ferdinand I (1914-1927) was made by Florin Codre. He was the king of Romania when it occupied Transylvania.
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