Statue of Petőfi Sándor
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
GPS coordinates:
48.149913, 17.12049
History
The statue was unveiled in 1911 on the square in front of the theatre. It is the artwork of the sculptor Radnai Béla from Pozsony. Petőfi Sándor was the great poet of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence between 1848 and 1849.
The Czechoslovak invaders dismantled the statue and stored its pieces in a stables. It was found in 1955. The Czechoslovak administration allowed to reerect the statue only in an out-of-the-way town park in Pozsonyligetfalu south of the Danube, where Slovak nationalists vandalized it on a regular basis and the Hungarians commemorating at the statue were observed by agents. Because of the frequent protests the statue was dismantled, restored and reerected in 2002 in the lockable Medic Garden, which is surrounded with high a iron fence.
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