Memorial with Lions, Memorial to the Hungarian War of Independence in 1948/49
Memorial with Lions, Memorial to the Hungarian War of Independence in 1948/49
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Parcul Elisabeta, Erzsébet park
Historical Hungarian county:
Háromszék
GPS coordinates:
45.8659013917, 25.7863622691
History
The monument was inaugurated in 1874, on the 25th anniversary of the 1848/49 Hungarian War of Independence, and erected in the main square of Sepsiszentgyörgy in memory of the heroes who died in the war. On the main side of the obelisk, which stood in the middle, was a plaque of the Hungarian crowned coat of arms. On either side of the obelisk, a lion statue carved in Carrara marble was placed.
In the years after Trianon, the obelisk was knocked down and the coat of arms was broken off by the Romanian invaders. The obelisk was moved to the courtyard of the Székely National Museum, but the pedestal with the lions remained in place. In 1932, the lions were rolled off the site, but they were still put back on by order of the authorities. In 1934, at the request of the local prefect, the lions were moved to the museum and the pedestal was removed.
In September 1940, following the Second Vienna Award, the monument was quickly restored and the missing parts were replaced. However, in September 1944, the obelisk was knocked down and the lions mutilated by the members of the invading Romanian Maniu Guard. The lions were returned to the museum in its garden, in a relatively secluded place. After 1947, the obelisk was restored, but the Hungarian coat of arms was removed and replaced by a marble plaque with the dates '1848-1849', and the obelisk was simply inscribed 'In memory of the War of Independence' at the bottom. In 1958, some students of the Mikó College laid a wreath at the monument, for which the Romanian authorities sentenced them to long years in prison.
In March 2018, the obelisk was renovated, the Hungarian crowned coat of arms and the original inscriptions written by the writer Jókai Mór were restored to the front.
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