Baross Gábor szobra - Budapest

Large, detailed and beautifully crafted.

Moving the "iron minister" statue turned out to be a good idea. Previously, it was at a quite secluded location at the end of bus 30.

Gábor Bellusi Baross, full name Gábor Baross János Jusztin (Pruzsina, July 6, 1848 - Budapest, May 9, 1892) is a Hungarian politician, the founder of modern Hungarian trade and transport. He is an outstanding economic and transport politician of the age of dualism. Due to his achievements in the development of railway affairs, he was appointed “Minister of Iron”, honoring the implementer of the transport policy ideas of his early István Széchenyi. His monument is an 825 cm high stone pedestal with a bronze wreath and 2 reliefs on it. In front of the railway genius, on the back the iron gate, 500 cm high bronze male figures. Side figures: Allegorical figures of Trade and Industry (model athlete Réthy Menotti), 450 cm high bronze sculptures. The casting was made in the foundry of Beschorner Rt. Originally, from November 20, 1898, until the construction of metro line 2, it stood in front of the Keleti railway station, then it was stored in the cemetery on Mező Imre út. From 1971, he stood in front of the post office in a small car park in front of the northern side of the railway station, close to Thököly út. In early December 2013, it was put back on the square bearing its name.

Very nice and spectacular sculpture in the neighborhood of the Eastern Railway Station, in the center of Budapest!

This poor statue has been wandering here and there for 130 years. Obviously, the reason for its relevance and the location of the set-up was the politician working to create modern Hungarian transport and trade. To the terminus of buses 30, due to the construction of the subway, he went out to the cemetery a bit, where he also lingered for two years, then in his current place, the south glade continued since 2013. It is a good meeting place, a remarkable point in the square that can be reached from afar. While you’re waiting for someone to be late, you can wonder how big a bigot we live again, long ago almost every glorious ancestor, patriotic naked by-product, has been glorified from several sides, here the industry and the allegory of transport are naked, in 2022 Goggle or Facebook it erases when you see an uncovered butt, because what an indecent thing it is. . . so, the world is not always moving in a normal direction. But we love this statue, part of our lives, he always stood here with us.