The Picnic Monument

In 1996, on the seventh anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, a monument to the picnic created by Gabriela von Habsburg was unveiled in Fertőrákos (Kroisbach).

A total of eight names of figures associated with the Pan-European Picnic are inscribed on the barbed wire tips of the monument created by Gabriela von Habsburg in Kroisbach (Fertőrákos) and on the commemorative plaque.

The two patrons of the picnic, Dr Otto von Habsburg and the Hungarian Minister of State Imre Pozsgay; the representatives sent by the patrons who were not personally present: Walburga Habsburg Douglas and State Secretary László Vass; two representatives of the Order of Malta Ambulance Corps, who cared for refugees from the so-called GDR in the Hungarian refugee camps, Baroness Csilla von Boeselager and Imre Kozma; as well as Lukács Szabó, then chairman of the Hungarian Democratic Forum in Debrecen, and his colleague Mária Fülep.