Iron Székely
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Udvarhely
GPS coordinates:
46.3031567446, 25.2958494466
History
The memorial was erected in 1917, during the First World War, in honour of the heroic dead of the 82nd Imperial and Royal Székely Infantry Regiment, who fought heroically against the Russian and Romanian troops trying to invade Hungary through the Carpathian passes. At the time, it was a group of 4 life-size statues of carved wooden figures covered with steel scales attached with small nails, hence the name. This was pulled down by the Romanian invaders, and only the pedestal remained. Between 1940 and 1944 it was replaced by a Hungarian national flag, which was again destroyed by the Vlach invaders returning with the red plague. On 15 March 2000, a bronze statue of a World War I Hungarian soldier, the work of local sculptor Szabó János, was erected.
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