The common grave of the fallen soldiers of February 1849

Entering the public cemetery, turning right, next to the cemetery wall is the cemetery protected by a cast-iron fence, where a giant rock was placed on the graves of the fallen soldiers. The shield-like, cast-iron plaque was attached to the lower part of the stone block. ; Several battles of the Winter Campaign of 1849 took place in the historical Spiš region, in memory of which posterity erected several monuments. Of these, the Levoča and Iglő war memorials were damaged and then destroyed (on March 16, 1919), and the Spiš Szombathely monument was transformed. Only the tombstones erected in honor of the heroic dead of the Iglő and Braniszko battles have survived in their original form. These tombstones were rediscovered by the outside world a few years ago by participants in the National Heritage Bicycle Tours. ; On February 2, 1849, more than 5,000 of General Guyon's soldiers fought a major battle for the defense of the city of Igló with the imperial troops camped in Levoča. The battle ended with the victory of the Guyons. In February 1849, the 67 soldiers who fell in the battle for the defense of the city of Igló were buried in a common grave, and a memorial plaque was attached to the huge granite block placed above the grave. ; The tomb was kept in order for a long time by Hungarian high school students from the Highlands, participants of the Mobile University of Patriotism, and they were later joined by the citizens of the city of Igló, who have also kept the tomb in exemplary order in recent years. Despite the continuous care, the bronze memorial plaque disappeared from the granite rock in 2003. In 2009, on the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Igló, László Köteles, member of parliament, general vice-president of the Csemadok, and chief organizer of the Mobile University of Homeland Knowledge, urged and undertook the restoration of the tomb and the replacement of the plaque. László Köteles, in cooperation with art historians from Košice, prepared a copy of the original plaque at his own expense. The ceremonial inauguration of the plaque took place again on May 21, 2010, in the cemetery of Igló, in the presence of students from the Hungarian high schools of Szeps and Rozsnyó. At the commemoration, László Köteles emphasized that it is now the responsibility of the younger generation present to ensure that the monuments that prove our past and values remain in their original places. Our memories prove that the borders of our history and culture are not the same as the current ethnic borders.