Honvéd Memorial

Sándor Finta won the competition for a statue to commemorate the heroic deaths of the soldiers of the 14th Honvéd Infantry Regiment in Nitra. He had already made the plaster models in 1916; in the first version, the dead Honvéd has a cap on his head, while in the second version it is no longer there, and Jesus' hand holding the soldier was given a more dramatic emphasis in the composition. Finta not only paid attention to the careful execution of his statues, but also considered it important what kind of environment they were placed in: "In order to feel an artistic work, an atmosphere is needed, and the atmosphere is created by the direct effect of the environment." - he wrote in 1918, during the discussions surrounding the placement of the Honvéd statue. ; The monument was finally erected in the City Park below the castle, with the inscription “The audience of the Nyitra County, 1914 -” on its pedestal, and below it, with István Szathmáry’s poem “The Age of Blood and Iron Raged”. (István Szathmáry (February 4, 1877 - March 5, 1944, chief clerk, poet) was born in Trenčín. After Trianon, he had to flee the Highlands because of his patriotic poems. After 1945, his poems were omitted from all existing books, and the existence of his poetry was denied in all forums.) ; The inauguration of the statue was also reported by Filmhíradó in 1918. (filmhiradokonline.hu) ; After the Uplands became part of Czechoslovakia, which was founded on October 28, 1918, the Hungarian text was removed from the Honvéd Memorial in Nitra and replaced with a Slovak inscription: "In memory of the heroes who fell in the World War 1914-1918."