Hausner Gábor szerk.: A Hadtörténeti Múzeum Értesítője = Acta Musei Militaris in Hungaria. 7. (Budapest, 2004)

ÉRTEKEZÉSEK, TANULMÁNYOK - PROHÁSZKA LÁSZLÓ: A gorodoki lovasroham újra látható domborműve

THE RELIEF OF THE GORODOK CAVALRY CHARGE ON VIEW AGAIN In World War I, the hussar regiments of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy suffered heavy losses already in the early stage of operations in the summer of 1914. In the battle of Gorodok, which took place on 17 August 1914 in Galicia on the Eastern Front, units of the Royal Hungarian 5th Cavalry Division were given command to attack the Russian positions across open ground. The Russians let the hussars within close range and then opened fire at them with their machine guns, inflicting heavy casualties on the attackers. On 17 August 1929, a commemorative relief of the battle was unveiled on the central building of the cavalry barracks in Budapest. The memorial of the Royal Hungarian 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th Hussar Regiments, which were engaged in the battle, was designed by Miltiadesz Manno (1879-1935). A hussar lieutenant in 1914, he himself took part and was severely wounded in the cavalry charge. Following Manno's model, the relief was sculpted by György Nemes (1885-1958). The memorial, cast in bronze and framed by carved limestone, depicts galloping hussars, several of whom are shown being hit by bullets and falling off their horses. Similarly to other World War I memorials in Hungary, the relief of the Gorodok cavalry charge was removed after 1945, and was placed in the basement of the Military History Museum in 1948. In 2004, it was burnished, some damaged parts of it were repaired, and in June, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, it was inaugurated in the courtyard of the Military History Museum. The signatures "Manno Miltiades" in the bottom left-hand corner and "Nemes György / 1929" in the bottom right-hand corner of the relief to be seen in the museum prove that it is identical with the memorial that used to decorate the wall of the cavalry barracks in Budapest in the interwar period. The widow of the artist presented the plaster model of the relief to the Military History Museum in 1959. DAS WIEDERAUSGESTELLTE RELIEF DER KAVALLERIEATAKKE VON GORODOK Schon am Anfang des Ersten Weltkrieges, im Sommer von 1914, noch während der früheren Phasen der Zusammenstösse erlitten die Husarenregimenter der Osterreichischen-Ungarischen Monarchie bedeutende Verluste. Die Einheiten des Verbandes der 5. königlichen ungarischen Kavalleriedivision wurden am 17. August 1914. in der Schlacht von Gorodok am Ostfront, in Kriegsschauplatz Galizien auf einer offenen Gelände gegen die massiv ausgebauten Stellungen der Russen zum Angriff befohlen. Der Feind liess die Husaren ganz nahe kommen, erst dann eröffnete er aus den verdeckten Maschinengewährsteilungen vernichtendes Feuer auf die Angreifenden. Das Denkmal der Schlacht, in der die ungarischen Einheiten ungeheuer grosse Verluste erlitten hatten, wurde am 17. August 1929. im Hauptgebäude der Husarenkaserne in der Kerepesi Strasse, Hausnummer 49 (Budapest) eingeweiht. Das Relief gedenkt sich der 1., 6., 7. und 8. königlichen ungarischen Honved-Husarenregimenter. Er wurde vom Miltiades Manno (1879-1935) entworfen, der als Husarenoberleutnant selbst an der Todesattacke teilgenommen hatte. Er wurde schwer verletzt. Auf Grund des Planes von