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The Mausoleum of Count Július Andrássy is one of the most valuable protected cultural monuments in Trebišov. It was built in 1893 according to the project of the German architect Arthur Meining in the neo-Gothic style. The sarcophagus is the work of the Budapest sculptor Juraj Zal from 1893 - 1895. Count Július Andrássy has been buried in the mausoleum since 1894 (he died in 1890 and was buried in the crypt of the Roman Catholic Church).

Mausoleum of Count Július Andrássy

The Mausoleum of Count Július Andrássy is one of the most valuable protected cultural monuments in Trebišov. It was built in 1893 according to the project of the German architect Arthur Meining in the neo-Gothic style. The sarcophagus is the work of the Budapest sculptor Juraj Zal from 1893 - 1895. Count Július Andrássy has been buried in the mausoleum since 1894 (he died in 1890 and was buried in the crypt of the Roman Catholic Church).

Let us introduce at least briefly the personality of Július Andrássy (1823 - 1890). He was a prominent politician, statesman and landowner. He came from the Bethlehem branch of the Andrássi family. His father Karol Andrássy (1792 - 1845) took part in the suppression of the East Slovak Peasant Uprising in 1831, was the chairman of the Society for the Regulation of the Tisza and a co-founder of the ironworks in Ózd. In 1839 and 1844 he was an envoy to the Hungarian Parliament. Mother Etela, born Szapáryová, who is buried in the crypt of the Trebišov Roman Catholic Church, was one of the richest women in Hungary with her inherited land ownership.

After studying at the Grammar School in Sátoraljaujhely and law at the University of Pest, Count Július Andrássy was the director (1876) and later (1888) an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In the revolutionary year of 1848, he was a Zemplín mayor, commander of the National Guard, and a year later an aide to General Gorgélyi and an envoy of the revolutionary government in Istanbul. As a supporter of Louis Kossuth in the revolutionary years 1848-1849, he was forced to emigrate. He lived mainly in Paris and London. In 1851 he was sentenced to death in absentia.

He returned to Hungary after an amnesty in 1858. There he had a great career. He became a member of parliament (1861) and later (1865) vice-president of the Hungarian Parliament. He prepared the Austro-Hungarian settlement with František Deák (1867) and in the years 1867 - 1871 he was the first prime minister of Hungary in a dualistic monarchy. He also carried out the Hungarian-Croatian settlement (1868) and in 1871 he became a minister in the person of the monarch. From 1871 to 1879 he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary. In foreign policy, he focused on weakening Russia's position on the Slavic nations in the monarchy and in the Balkans. He promoted the alliance of Austria-Hungary with Imperial Germany. He was one of the initiators of the Berlin Congress of 1878, which after the Russo - Turkish War attributed Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria - Hungary.

Count Július Andrássy had two sons, the younger Július (1860 - 1929), the older Teodor (1857 - 1905) and a daughter Helena (Ilon). In 1879 he resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs. His speeches were published posthumously in Hungarian, English, German, French and Italian. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Council of St. Stefan and the Knight of the Golden Fleece Spanish grant I. class. The body remains of his wife Catherine, born Kendeffy, were also placed in the sarcophagus. The symbolism of this family union is expressed by two bronze cartouches with the coats of arms of Count J. Andrássy and K. Kendeffy, which are placed above the sarcophagus. To the left of the sarcophagus is a freely placed tin coffin of their son Teodor Andrássy (1857 - 1905). The sarcophagus itself looks very majestic with a sculpture of a hovering angel, which symbolically protects the peace of the souls of the deceased with massive squadrons.

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Mausoleum of Count Július Andrássy
Mestský park 2563
075 01  Trebišov
Region: Košický
District: Trebišov
Area: Dolný Zemplín
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Mestský park 2563
075 01  Trebišov

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