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Monument to the Battle of Losonc on March 24, 1849 (Honovéd Monument)

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

On March 24, 1877, on Kubinyi Square, next to the ref. church, in the presence of the widow of General Damjanich, the Home Guard monument was unveiled, in memory of the fact that on March 24, 1849, the Home Guard Major Lajos Beniczky's unit routed the outnumbered imperial army. The stone obelisk, standing on a natural stone pedestal and inscribed on all four sides, was decorated with cannonballs connected by chains. It was removed by the Czechoslovak authorities in 1945. Its fate is unknown. ; Before 1945, it was the site of commemorations on March 15. The Battle of Losonc is also commemorated when the Kármán monument, which has been in its place since 1993, is laid.

Inscription/symbol:

“Bring your loyal Hungarian people here. / Here you will learn what patriotism is” // “In Losonczon, on March 24, 1849, 350 infantry and 33 honvéd hussars under the command of Major Lajos Beniczky fought a victorious battle against a strong battalion of infantry and a division of jiddás” // “Only a dwarf people can forget their ancient greatness. Only a degenerate age forgets their heroic predecessors. The enthusiastic goes to their graves and lights new embers at the old light” // “János Debrődi was born in 1819 in the village of Emőd, Borsod county, as a honvéd-hussar sergeant he died a heroic death by an enemy bullet / on March 24, 1849, in the city of Losoncz”;

Inventory number:

661

Collection:

Repository , 

Type:

Statue, monument, plaque , 

Value classification:

Settlement value abroad , 

Municipality:

Losonc ,    (Kármán utca 1 – .- Kármána 1, a református templom főbejárata mellett, jobbra.)