The new monument was first damaged by a bomb placed at its base, an attack carried out by two terrorists against Hungarian rule (Ilie Cătărău and Timofei Kirilov) in September, 1913. In December of the same year, the monument was heavily damaged by a thunderstorm: the Árpád statue fell from atop the column and shattered into pieces. In 1916, the remaining parts were detonated by the Romanian Army during its World War I advance into Transylvania (see Romanian Campaign). The statue's debris was removed by Communist Romanian authorities in 1966, and the head is preserved by the Parish House of the Reformed Church in Braşov. Tâmpa still houses the base of the monument.