• Location: Next to St. Michael’s Chapel
• Foundation: 1906
• Demolition: 1919

Where today there is a fountain next to St. Michael’s Chapel, once a proud monument was located: the Honvéd-szobor. A bronze statue with two larger-than-life depictions of men, standing on a pedestal on a small hill.

The monument was erected and unveiled on September 9th 1906 in memory of the 9th Patriotic Battalion of Košice, which fought in the Hungarian Civic Revolution and War of Independence in 1848-49. Although the revolution failed, it is one of the most significant events in Hungary’s modern history, forming the cornerstone of modern Hungarian national identity. ‘Honvéd’ means ‘homeland’ in Hungarian.

The bronze statue depicted a soldier of the 48th national guard, behind him a knight of the Kuruc Army, a group of armed anti-Habsburg insurgents in the Kingdom of Hungary between 1671 and 1711.

After Slovakia had joined the first Czechoslovakia, the Honvéd monument was torn down on the 17th of March 1919.

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