Monument to Count Zeno Csáky
Statue, monument, memorial plaque
Count Zénó Csáky (Korompa, March 8, 1840 – Budapest, October 2, 1905) was a highland lord, large landowner, lord of Szepes County, privy councilor, president of the Szepes Historical Society, honorary member of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. His father was Count Ágoston Csáky (1803–1883), politician, lord of Szepes County, and his mother was Baroness Iphigenia Prónay (1807–1874). ; "Educated at home in secondary school with his younger brother Albin, he entered the military at the age of 16 and participated in the Italian campaign of 1859. In 1863, he left the service as a lieutenant, married Countess Leontin Esterházy and settled in Szepes-Süme as a recluse." ; He was an active participant in the cultural, social and economic life of Spišské, and from 1896 he was the lord of Spišské County and the president of the Spišské Historical Society. ; He has great merit in the construction of the road system connecting the settlements below the Tatras. He is credited with starting and boosting the spa culture and sports tourism. ; At the XXXIII. general assembly of the Hungarian Carpathian Association in 1906 in Tátrafüred, the memory of Count Zenó Csáky, former lord of Spišské County and former honorary member of the association, was immortalized in the minutes. ; After his death, he was honored with a monument in the Tatra Lomnica park in 1908, about which local and capital newspapers brought photographic reports. ; The sculptural composition is located in the middle of a semicircular lobe built of rough limestone. On top of this is a carved white stone parapet, on which is the inscription "From the public of Spiš County". The 6/4-sized bronze bust stands in the middle of the section, also on a carved limestone pedestal, on a platform symbolizing a triple mound. The name of the person depicted, and the date of birth and death, are engraved on its front surface. ; The monument was removed after World War I.