Count Andrá ssy is one of the main fighters for Hungary's independence from the Habsburgs. He was sentenced in absentia by the Austrian authorities to death by hanging and in 1851 was symbolically executed. Under an amnesty in 1857, with the help of his mother, he returned to Hungary and took an oath of allegiance to Emperor Franz Joseph I. After the country was transformed into a dual monarchy, he held important positions in Hungary.
A monument to the work of Gyö rgy Hall was erected on December 2.1906. After the Second World War, when Budapest was being rebuilt, the sculpture was removed from the pedestal and carefully taken to the museum's storerooms. The massive pedestal was dismantled, its materials were used to repair the destroyed Chain Bridge across the Danube. In the 1980s, there was an idea and a heated debate about restoring the sculpture and installing it on Andrá ssy Avenue, but the ideas did not materialize.
And only in the early 2000s did this idea reappear in Budapest's mayors. The statue was eventually returned to its original place (in Parliament) in May 2015.
A monument to the work of Gyö rgy Hall was erected on December 2.1906. After the Second World War, when Budapest was being rebuilt, the sculpture was removed from the pedestal and carefully taken to the museum's storerooms. The massive pedestal was dismantled, its materials were used to repair the destroyed Chain Bridge across the Danube. In the 1980s, there was an idea and a heated debate about restoring the sculpture and installing it on Andrá ssy Avenue, but the ideas did not materialize.
And only in the early 2000s did this idea reappear in Budapest's mayors. The statue was eventually returned to its original place (in Parliament) in May 2015.
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