Hungary, 9151 Abda,
47.69170000, 17.56537000

Arrabona EGTC

Miklós Radnóti, the excellent modern Hungarian poet was shot on the road leading to Abda in 1944. The Radnóti Memorial stands in the middle of a grove of birch trees, at the place where the poet along with other people sentenced to forced labor were executed. Miklós Radnóti, the excellent modern Hungarian poet was shot in 1944 on the road to Abda. The statue of Miklós Radnóti on the outskirts of Győr along the road leading toward Abda marks the place where the poet was shot into a mass grave at the end of the Second World War. The full-figure granite statue is the work of Miklós Melocco, it depicts the poet wearing a shroud, his head bowed toward the ground.

Local name: Radnóti-síremlék

Attendance: Szabadon, korlátlanul látogatható

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Memorial Chapel

The memory of the place where the village once stood is marked by the Memorial Chapel. In front of it, there is a granite column memorial to honor the fallen heroes of the revolution of 1848-49. The 'Kossuth' Battalion, a part of the Pöltenberg Corps who guarded the Abda crossing. It is said that the young Franz Joseph was present at the battle. The buried bodies of soldiers from the 19th century were found nearby. This place is the property of the Roman Catholic church who had it renovated in 2010.

Obelisk

For a long time after the battle of June 28, 1849, the fate of 273 soldiers was unknown. Workers digging the new riverbed during the regulation of the Rábca (1886-1893) discovered a mass grave. The coffee-colored overcoats served to identify the dead and the fate of the vanished soldiers became known. The case spurred the Győr and local communities into action. Students of the Győr Law Academy organized a fundraiser to build a memorial. The Győr Gazette reported almost daily on how much had been collected. Using the donations, the fallen heroes were given a proper burial and a ceremony was held in their honor with an Obelisk raised above their final resting place.

Rákóczi Memorial

According to legend, on May 25, 1702, the carriage of Ferenc Rákóczi II, who was seized and taken captive, was traversing the Abda bridge when a soldier fishing on the bank of the Rábca gifted a catfish to the prisoner. Rákóczi threw the fish back into the water with the following words: 'Great is the God of the Hungarians, may He grant me back my liberty as I return this fish to freedom.'

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