Bronze Plaque of Ocskay László
Bronze Plaque of Ocskay László
Address:
Hlavné námestie, 940 02 Nové Zámky
Historical Hungarian county:
Nyitra
GPS coordinates:
47.986107, 18.163471
History
Érsekújvár was occupied by the Hungarian insurgents in 1704 without a fight during the Hungarian War of Independence between 1703 and 1711. In 1706 Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II, the leader of the war of independence, stayed in the town for a longer time and he also signed the truce here on May 20. In 1708 the Imperial General Hannibal Heister attacked the fortress of Érsekújvár, but he could not occupy it. After the unsuccessful siege Ocskay László brigadier betrayed Rákóczi and switched to the side of the Emperor. Jávorka Ádám, a lieutenant from Érsekújvár, decided to capture the betrayer. When he reached the village of Ocskó, he was informed, that Ocskay was already in the Révay Castle in Verbó where he was having a feast. He disguised himself as a beggar and infiltrated into the castle. He then spied out when Ocskay was going to return to Ocskó. He prepared an ambush in the evening on the country road with his man and cut down the followers of Ocskay and captured the traitor alive. He dragged him back to Érsekújvár, where the military tribunal sentenced him to death. First they wanted to impale him, but Ocskay Sándor managed to convince them to change the sentence to beheading. On January 3, 1710 Ocskay László was beheaded on the main square of Érsekújvár and his head was put on a spike on the bastion of the fortress. The execution was terrible, because the executioner missed his neck a couple of times by hitting his shoulder and his spine.
The original plaque was placed in 1929 but later it was removed out of political reasons. The current plaque was placed in 1975.
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