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Statue of Szacsvay Imre

Statue of Szacsvay Imre
Statue of Szacsvay - Oradea
ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Nagyvárad, Oradea
Address:
Parcul Libertatii
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.0558038151, 21.93476602
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History

It stands on the Millennium Memorial Square. On 15 March 1907, the bronze statue of the martyred national hero was unveiled, made by Margó Ede. In 1848 he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament representing Váradolaszi and Újváros, and as the draftsman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, he was executed in 1849 by the Austrians. The statue was dismantled in June 1937 because of rumours that the Romanian authorities wanted to remove it for good. The statue escaped vandalism only because it was professionally dismantled in time and stored in the museum in Nagyvárad. In 1942, after the Second Vienna Award, the statue was restored to its original location, where it still stands today.

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