Fidelity Column

Fidelity Column, also known as Victory Monument, is a statue located in Heroes' Cemetery of Timișoara's Lipovei district.

[1] The statue was donated to Timișoara in 1853 by Emperor Franz Joseph I as a sign of his gratitude for the resistance shown during the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849.

[2] Fidelity Column is almost 20 meters high, is made in neo-Gothic style, and the pedestal is a fortress with monsters reminiscent of Gothic cathedrals.

[5] The empress was "beheaded" in 1918 during Béla Kun's revolution, and the monument stayed like this in the square until 1936, when it was moved for political reasons to the Heroes' Cemetery.

[3] The monument was designed by architect Josef Kranner, who, among other things, restored and enlarged the St. Vitus Cathedral within Prague's Hradčany.