The East Slovak Peasant Uprising or also the Cholera Uprising took place in July and August 1831 in Zemplín, Abovská, Šariš and Spiš counties. The uprising involved 150 villages and towns with 40 000 insurgents. The direct incentive for the uprising was a large crop failure and a cholera epidemic. The people interpreted the precautionary measures as an intention to poison the serfs and seize their property. The rebellion was put down and death sentences by hanging were immediately carried out by the statal courts. There were a total of 119 of them. Although the uprising was suppressed, it found resonance in the Hungarian Diet and in 1832-1836, which considered the serf question and granted the serfs certain, albeit small, rights.
In the year 1938 erected a monument, the main theme of which is bronze statue of a man walking triumphantly, placed on a high cylindrical pylon. At the base is a sculpture of 7 insurgents, symbolically representing the occupational statuses of the participants in the uprising. These included mainly landowners, burgesses, landowners, sharecroppers, miners, the poor (urban and rural) and employees of the state (richtars, teachers, hajdúsi.)
Total the height of the monument is 20 m. The figures in the sculpture are up to 3.2 m high. The bronze statue on the pylon is 4.2 m high. In his right hand he holds a 0.4 m long branch. The statues in the sculpture are carved from sandstone.
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