former Monument of Maria Theresia
former Monument of Maria Theresia
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
destroyed
Address:
Námestie Ľudovíta Štúra
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
GPS coordinates:
48.140225, 17.109916
History
The monument of Empress Maria Theresia was unveiled on May 16, 1897 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph. lt was the artwork of the Hungarian sculptor Fadrusz János. The model of the monument won a grand prize at the World Expo in Paris in 1900.
On the night of 26 to 27 October 1921 the Czechoslovak invaders torn down the statue and smashed it into pieces with iron bars. The statue of Ludovit Stúr made by Bártfay Tibor was erected on its site in 1972. Ludovit Stúr was a Slovak subversive politician who recruited volunteers to fight on the side of the Habsburg Empire in order to suppress the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence between 1848 and 1849. He did not achieve great success, because the large majority of the Slovak minority of northern Hungary (now Slovakia) fought on the side of the Hungarians. Sorrowfully his ideological successors managed to undermine the integrity of Hungary and come to power by convincing the Entente Powers to create Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of Slovakia, without asking for the will of the people. This gave them the means to incite never ending hatred towards Hungarians, which was and still is indispensable for maintaining their power.
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