Debrecen reloaded
The history of Debrecen, the “civic city”, is full of conflicting events, when “civic rationality” (wealth considerations) were overwritten by the lofty aspects of national loyalty and loyalty to the city. These events accompanied the city from the Turkish wars until the 20th century. The motif stretches unbroken from Gáspár Borzán (1604, it is true, he is the imaginary character of the writer Magda Szabó) to the persons of Zoltán Ács and András Gorzsás, who were murdered in a police salve on October 23, 1956 at 6 o’clock in the evening. They were the first martyrs of the Hungarian 1956 revolution. The heroic fight of the 3rd honvéd infantry regiment in the Great War fits into this line.
The Calvinist Great Church in Debrecen is the emblematic building of the city, which I have written about several times. Now I am uploading photos of the barracks building of the 3rd honvéd infantry regiment. They were a regiment of the 20th Honvéd Infantry Division. Together with the 39th joint regiment, they belonged to corps VII commanded by Archduke József that protected the Karst in 1915-17. The many sufferings and sacrifices were not in vain: the outnumbered Italian attackers only managed to penetrate the front line little by little here and there, but these results were also taken back by the defenders of Doberdó in countless cases. Due to the heavy losses, the regiment was reorganized twice when the regiment’s numbers dwindled.
The army barracks still stands today and exceptionally still functions as a military facility. In 1978, I also had to go to this building for enlistment, the territorial auxiliary command is located here. The commemorative relief of the 3rd regiment can be seen on the wall of the building. The building still looks roughly the same today as it did 120 years ago, although the beautiful row of trees planted on the edge of Péterfia Street has been cut down (perhaps replanted?).
