Bélai Iván [et al.]: Köztéri alkotások

VI. Utószó

and 1918. Every year since then on 1 November, a commemoration ceremony is held at the cross. The National Office arranged and cleaned the graves by 1 November 1927. Each grave was given an iron cross with the name and date of the death of the soldier. By today most of the crosses have been stolen. 212. The stone cross standing on Felső Kenderesi Road carries a metal corpus. It was erected by Ferenc Tóth, a customs officer and his wife Erzsébet Meszes on 13 August 1945. Originally it was in Dobogókői Road and later it was moved to its present place, at the end of the dator's field. It was renovated by their children on 15 August 1984. 213. There is a stone cross in the Danube-side plot of the Szentgyörgymező cemetery. It was erected there after Wolrd War II. Hungarian and Soviet Soldiers killed in the battles in Esztergom and the near-by were buried there. Also the 27 Hungarian soldiers killed in the battles at Szamárhegy in spring of 1945 (the Donkey's Hill) were buried in this grave. 214. There is a marble cross beside St Stephen's Chapel. The corpus was carved from the same piece of stone. The inscription on the pedestal: »Renovated from the donations of the people in 1949. The way the cross was carved allows us to assume that the it is at least 200 years old. 215. In the garden at 62 Kisjános Street a stone cross was erected. The corpus was carved together with the cross from the same piece of stone. On the pedestal we can see the place of a missing plate. It must have been the cross of the Dorog customs, because the Vámkereszt Street (Customs' Cross Street) is in the near-by. 216. There is a stone cross on the Dorog-side of Tát Road. It stands on an artificial fundament and carries a finely outworked metal corpus. The inscription cannot be read because of the injuries of the pedestal. 217. The marble cross in front of the mortuary of the City Centre Cemetery (formerly Missio Chapel) carries a metal corpus. It has no inscription. 218. The most beautiful cross stands in City Centre Cemetery. It was carve form red stone from the Strázsahegy (Watchman's Hill). On the pedestal there is the figure of the Madonna and a skull underneath. This is the grave of Sebestyén Kitzenberger, stone-cutter and citizen of Esztergom. The cross was erected according to his will by his wife Krisztina Anna, four years after his death. 219. We find a wooden cross in the Soldiers' Cemetery. The original wooden 166 cross was rotten in the course ot times. Students of the Bálint Balassa Elemen-