Memorial to Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
Obeliscul lui Horea, Cloșca şi Crișan
Memorial to Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
Obeliscul lui Horea, Cloșca şi Crișan
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Alsó-Fehér
GPS coordinates:
46.0669025837, 23.5755172218
History
The monument was erected in front of St George's Gate in 1937. The sculpture was made by the Hungarian Fekete József.
In 1784, Emperor Joseph II ordered an increase in the number of border guards. The Valch serfs in Transylvania were under the misapprehension that the conscription had been started, and began to gather en masse, as the military service was the only way for the Vlach migrants that overpopulated in the Transylvanian mountains to escape the misery. The leaders of the local administration, believing that they were being bypassed by the imperial court, tried to block the process. In addition, the Vlach Orthodox priests incited the Vlach population against the Hungarians, whom they hated, and fooled the Vlachs with the myth of their Daco-Roman origin. Horea spread the word that the emperor had appointed him as the leader of the Vlachs. The enraged Vlach peasants attacked the Hungarian and Saxon citizens and began a terrible ethnic cleansing, exterminating 133 mostly Hungarian settlements and murdering thousands of people. After the mob was crushed, two of their leaders, Horea and Cloșca, were executed by the wheel in Gyulafehérvár. The third leader, Crişan, cowardly committed suicide in the prison. There was no mass reprisal.
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