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Gate of Heroes, Veszprém Town, Hungary

Name of the Artwork: Gate of Heroes and Angel statuary

Created by: Rumi-Rajki István based on plans of Pázmándy István

Date of setting: 1939

Made from: Stone

Renovated in: 2013

Location: 8200 Veszprem Castle Street No 2., Parcel number 286.

 

Just above the cove of the Gate in the cabins there are  two stone Angels holding a bayrope in ther hands. Between the two Angels a sword can be seen coated by bay garlang and it shows the numbers of the year of World War 1: 1914-1918.

Hungary, Veszprém Town

Type of WWI-heritage

  • War monument

Dimensions

No information available.

State of repair/preservation

The heritage is well preserved.

Historical WWI Context

The Heroes' Gate commemorates the Hungarian victims of WWI. According to the plans by István Pázmándy, it was built between 1936 and 1938. The attaching Neo-Romanesque building gives place to the Heroes' Hall, which included the sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier from the World War 1. From the 1950s on the memorial hall served as a lapidary, where various stone carvings found in the castle district were displayed. Nowadays it hosts a renewed exhibition and a visitors' centre.
When the Heroes’ Gate was built in the mid-1930s, there were many other buildings, structures, and monuments commemorating the past under construction. At that time the Saint Stephen’s Viaduct, a true representative of advanced construction technologies, was erected, they also started to build Saint Margaret’s Church in the respectful memory of Saint (Blessed) Margaret and renovate Margaret’s Ruins, the ruins of a nunnery she was educated in. At that time the pair of statues of King Saint Stephen and Queen Blessed Gisela was erected at the northern end of the castle hill and has been dominating the view of the castle ever since.

State of legal protection

The heritage is not protected.

Owner

The owner is Municipality of Veszprém Town.

Kind of cultural use of WWI

Guided museum education tours and adult groups are welcome from Monday to Friday from 8.00 till 16.00.
Please register in advance.
Information, registration: info@vmmuzeum.hu
Tel./fax: +36 88 426-081/ ext. 18.

 

Veszprém

(the available information is on the www.utazzitthon.hu/latnivalo/veszprem site)

Fire tower, 8200 Veszprém, Vár u. 9.

Laczkó Dezső museum, 8200 Veszprém, Erzsébet sétány 1.

Dubniczay palace, 8200 Veszprém, Vár u. 29.

Viadukt, 8200 Veszprém, Pápai út 37.

Petőfi theatre , 8200 Veszprém, Óváry Ferenc u. 2.

Holly Trinity statue, 8200 Veszprém, Vár u.

Queen Gizella museum, 8200 Veszprém, Vár utca 35.

Szent Mihály basilica , 8200 Veszprém, Vár u. 18-20.

Gizella chapell, 8200 Veszprém, Vár u. 35.

Archiebishop palace , 8200 Veszprém, Vár u. 16.

Nearby Veszprém you can find:

Veszprémi zoo - game park, 8200 Veszprém, Kittenberger Kálmán utca 17

Veszprém valley

Villa Romana Baláca, 8248 Nemesvámos

Gulya hill belvedere

Opening

For further information see:
http://www.hosok-kapuja.hu 

Telephone : +36 88 610 516  
Website: http://www.hosok-kapuja.hu
Opening hours:  Monday - Sunday 10.00 - 18.00

Entrance Fee

Admission fees: Adult: 500 Ft, Discounted: 300 Ft, Family: 1100 Ft, In groups (per person): 600/300 Ft.

Information regarding cities, villages, other touristic attractions (non-WWI) nearby

For further information see: http://veszpreminfo.hu/records/places

Accomodation

Public Transport

Pedestrian zone.

Further information sources

Other heritage sites nearby

Museums Private Collections

For further information see: http://laczkodezsomuzeum.hu/

Location

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