Statue of Baron Wesselényi Miklós with the Liberated Serf
Statue of Baron Wesselényi Miklós with the Liberated Serf
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Piața Iuliu Maniu
Historical Hungarian county:
Szilágy
GPS coordinates:
47.1786368213, 23.0562817509
History
The artwork of Fadrusz János depicts the great politician of the Hungarian Reform Era as he is distributing land to one of his former serfs. The statue was inaugurated on 18 September 1902 in the main square of the town, which was then called Kossuth Square. The statue was torn down by the Romanians in 1935 and dragged by oxen to the prison building. It was re-erected in 1942 after northern Transylvania was reunited with Hungary. The Romanian invaders, returning with the Red Plague, erected a red-painted plank fence around it, which was used as a billboard. Among other things the list of kulaks ('wealthy' peasants) was hung on it.
Wesselényi Miklós (1796-1850), an aristocratic politician, continuously freed his serfs in the neighborhood of Zilah and Zsibó from the labour obligation (robot) and the tithe, and in 1848 he freed hundreds of serf families, donated them land and encouraged them to learn modern agriculture.
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