Monuments that no longer exist

Source: Museums from Romanian regions

Monument of German mountain troops, erected in the Red Tower Pass, in Transylvanian Alps, during W.W. 1.


[From eBay]

Gen. Dénes

This statue actually is in Union Square (Piata Unirii) in Timisoara, and it was always there...

I wonder if someone finds the statue of gen. Stan Poetas, killed by the Bolcheviks at Atachi, near Hotin. It was destroyed by the Soviet Army in 1940 when retaking Bessarabia and northern Bukowina (the latter never theirs).

This post has been edited by mateias on January 09, 2008 05:59 pm

Whatever happened to this monument?
All I know for sure it doesn't exist any more.


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Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on September 10, 2008 08:40 pm

Long story short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2mpa,_Bra%C5%9Fov#History

More info in Romanian here: http://www.itcnet.ro/history/archive/mi200...rrent6/mi40.htm

Or the English version, made with google's language tools:

http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=EN&sl=r...ifse_jIYA6y_LDQ (bad translation, but one should get a minimal idea about the subject)

Another view of the Arpad Monument, from the opposite side. The lightning conductor rod can be seen running down the right of the column, encased in a conduit at the base.



A postcard showing the ruined base of the Arpad Monument. The card is undated but has stamps of King Ferdinand and a postmark that is slightly indistinct but looks like 1924.

Two more old postcards showing the Carol I monument in Craiova commemorating independence in 1878.


The monument was located in Parcul Romanescu (previously Parcul Poporului and Parc Bibescu). It was destroyed in 1948 (1).
The inauguration of the monument in 1912 was marked by this 33 mm diameter medal, designed by Menachem Carniol Jr. (2).



References:
1, "Gradinile si Parcurile Craiovei", C. Avram et al, Editura de Sud, Craiova, 1999.
2, "Royal Effigies on Romanian Medals", CD-Rom, Noi Media Print, Bucuresti, 2000.

This statue was rebuilt in 2010 and put in Piaţa Palatulului, Bucharest. Inaugurated on 6th December 2010.

Statuia Eroului Necunoscut (Unknown Hero Statue) from Satu Mare was inaugurated in 1st December 1922 and it was demolished and disapear during hortyst ocupation.


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For details, and another two disaperead monuments in Satu Mare, see page 3 from here:

http://www.informatia-zilei.ro/new/wp-cont...-21.11.2010.pdf

From Brasov:

Arpad's archer statue, on top of Tampa Mt. (1896), see above.

Monument of the Dorobanţ, in Livada Postei (192?):



The cemetery of WWI heroes of "Transeea Mortii", Bartolomeu (1921), although the monument still exists:




The statue of Stalin, by the Post Office Palace (2 versions, first one of unknown rock or plaster - c. 1950-51, second of bronze - shortly after) :



The monument of the Soviet soldier, in the central park (c. 1951), statue moved to the cemetery of soviet heroes in Bartolomeu:

I wrote this article http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Monume...n_din_Satu_Mare about the statue mentioned above. Contras, do you have a copy free photo about this monument, to be put on the article from Enciclopedia Romaniei? If you do, please sent it to my email. Thanks!

This post has been edited by 21 inf on January 05, 2011 05:19 pm

I'm not sure that this monument does not exist anymore so excuse my ignorance ( i didn't want to open a new thread aswell ) it's in a grouping on ebay with other pictures from Romania and some balkan countries so it might aswell not even be romanian, but does anyone have any clue about it ?



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I heard (unnoficially) from ome historians that this statue was destroyed nou in 1940, but in 1944. In 1940 was used to chain the "antibolshevik" Romanians. Some people said that it is a project to be rebuilded near Atachi, where it was.