Arrabona - Múzeumi közlemények 40/1-2. (Győr, 2002)

Kossuth tanulmányok - Grábics Frigyes: A Kossuth-kultusz változásai Győrött

ARRABONA40.2002. TANULMÁNYOK Frigyes Grábics: Data about the events of the Kossuth-cult in Győr The changes of the cult are adjusted to the events connected to Kossuth in Győr, namely Kossuth's visits to Győr (the exhibition of industrial design in 1846, and his recruiting address on 21 October 1848) on the basis of which a favourable cult-image was created. Kossuth's constitutional plan of 1851 written in Kiitahya - which contains some fundamental issues of his later idea of the Danube Confederation - is connected to Győr by Imre Kozma's translation. Kossuth was awarded honorary citizenship in 1888. In 1892, on the anniversary of Kossuth's 90 birthday, a rally was held on Széchenyi Square where Ede Krisztinkovich, lawyer, the local secretary of the Independence Party, delivered a speech. On this occasion, the high street of Győr-Újváros (New Town) - the part of the town loyal to Kossuth and the issues of 1848 - was named after him. In 1898, on the 50 anniversary of the revolution and war of independence, a resolution was adopted by the proposition of Ferenc Kiss, town clerk, to erect a monument of 1848 in Honvéd liget. The personalities who promoted the events of Kossuth-cult in Győr are as follows: Count Ottó Zichy, commander of the national guard; Sándor Lukács, government commissioner; Imre Kozma, liberal minded lawyer; Dr József Sikor, medical officer (who proposed the award of honorary citizenship); Ede Krisztinkovich (an initiator for ever); Emil Vajda, teacher of history; Gyula Szávay, poet, newspaper editor; and Lajos Horváth, parish priest of Újváros (New Town) that was loyal to 1848. Kossuth's prophecy was right: the time for the fall of the Habsburg dynasty and the collapse of the Monarchy had arrived. In the peace treaty concluding World War I, Hungary "fell prey, at the disposal of the victorious ones." Since then, Kossuth's glorious memory in has gradually declined in historic commemoration and has been replaced by the officially supported cult of Széchenyi. Bellony László: Talpra magyar! A szabadságharc emléklapja 366