Bust of Petőfi Sándor
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Petőfi Sándor park
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
GPS coordinates:
46.2212485653, 24.7924174936
History
The Hungarian revolutionary poet Petőfi Sándor died on 31 July 1849 in Fehéregyháza, near Segesvár. 48 years later, in 1897, his life-size statue, the work of Köllő Miklós, was unveiled in front of the county hall (now the Town Hall) on the northeastern battlements of Segesvár Castle. This statue was dismantled and transported to Budapest in the summer of 1916, during the flight from the Romanian invasion, and then erected in Kiskunfélegyháza in the autumn of 1922, after the Trianon Dictate.
After that, Petőfi did not have a statue in Segesvár Castle for more than 40 years, until in 1959, when the statue of the poet, modelled by the Romanian sculptor Romulus Ladea (1901-1970), was inaugurated in place of the former statue. It was cast in the factory of the Fine Arts Fund in Bucharest. The statue stood there until 2006, when it was removed and its pedestal dismantled, on the pretext of ground soaking and the weakening of the castle walls, with the promise that it would be erected elsewhere in the town. This was to wait until the summer of 2013, when it was ceremoniously unveiled in a small park between the Roman Catholic church of St Joseph and the Bastion of the Bootmakers.
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