former Honvéd Statue, Statue of Ludovit Štúr
Socha Ľudovíta Štúra
former Honvéd Statue, Statue of Ludovit Štúr
Socha Ľudovíta Štúra
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Námestie Majstra Pavla
Historical Hungarian county:
Szepes
GPS coordinates:
49.027454, 20.590041
History
The statue of the soldier of the Hungarian War of Independence between 1848 and 1849 was erected in 1876. It was the artwork of the sculptor Faragó József from Lőcse.
The Hungarian army led by Colonel Guyon Richárd with many newly recruited Slovak volunteers managed to break through the Branyiszkó Pass held by a much larger Imperial army on February 5, 1849. By this victory the army of Görgei Artúr could reach the Great Plains and unite with the Hungarian main army, which, under his command, liberated most of Hungary from the Imperial rule in the following Spring Campaign.
The invading Czech army tore the statue down on the night of 11 to 12 August 1919 at the end of World War I. Later the statue of Ludovit Štúr was placed on its pedestal. Ludovit Štúr was a subversive Slovak politician, who recruited Slovak volunteers to join the side of the Habsburgs in order to suppress the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence between 1848 and 1849. He was not successful, because the large majority of the Slovak minority of northern Hungary (now Slovakia) supported the Hungarians. Sorrowfully his ideological successors managed to incite hatred among the Slovaks towards the Hungarians after they had managed to convince the Entente Powers to create Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I. They took care not to let the population decide by referendum whether they want to stay in Hungary or to join the newly created Czechoslovakia.
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