Historical Memorial at Mohacs, Statue Park (tortenelmi emlekhely, szoborpark)

The Mohács battlefield burial ground became a historical memorial in 1976 on the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Mohács.

About 28,000 Hungarian soldiers lost their lives in this defeat at the hands of the Turkish that sealed Hungary's fate for the following 150 years. This tragedy gained symbolic value in the Hungarian national psyche and left one of the most indelible marks on its historical memory. The battle lasted an hour and a half but its consequence was a century and a half of Turkish rule, which excluded Hungary from the development of Europe.

Enter the memorial through a gate made by the goldsmith József Pölöskei. The monumental artwork closes in an arch which, as everything here, symbolises the fallen heroes. Its bronze units are held together by 28,000 rivets, indicating the approximate number of fallen soldiers.

Inside the gate two stone plaques by sculptor Sándor Rétfalvi carry two bronze tree leaves. These indicate the date of the anniversary and an inscription referring to the territory's status as a nature reserve.

The sculptor István Bencsik erected a stone map showing the battlefield and the settlements around it.

The small yard is decorated by a fountain resembling a broken flower made by Gyula Illés. Service buildings are located in the atrium. This whole memorial site was designed by the Kossuth and Ybl Award winning architect György Vadász.

Among the mass graves there are statues of the following personalities: Jagiellon Louis II (who drowned in the flooded River Csele as he fled the battle), Pál Tomori (Archbishop of Kalocsa and supreme commander of the Hungarian troops during the battle; he died in the carnage), Dorottya Kanizsai (who, in searching for the body of her own son, had all the bodies buried after the battle), and Sultan Suleiman, the victorious Turkish monarch. The many carved wooden statues are dedicated to the anonymous memory of valiant soldiers. Sculptures were created by József Király, Sándor Kiss, Pál Kő and István Szabó Junior.