Arad

ARAD This is the monument of the The Martyrs of Arad, the 13 Hungarian generals of the Hungarian Liberation Fight of 1848, who were executed on October 6, 1849, in Arad, by the Habsburg military authorities led by Haynau. This modest obelisk was erected on October 6, 1881, but there was a large monument on the main square of Arad, erected on October 6, 1890, which was sadly torn down by the nationalistic Rumanian state administration, after Transylvania was annexed to Rumania, in 1921. The monument carries the names of the 13 Hungarian heroes, who shed their blood for the benefit of not only the Hungarians but every ethnicity in Transylvania. Nine were hanged : Lajos Aulich, János Damjanich, Károly Knezich, György Lahner, Károly Leiningen, József Nagy-Sándor, Ernő Pöltenberg, Ignác Török and Károly Vécsey; four were shot : Arisztid Dessewffy, Ernő Kiss, Vilmos Lázár and József Schweidel. Under this little monument rest the remains of 11 of the 13 generals, which were placed here on the 125th anniversary of their execution.