The Grunwald Monument · stop 1 of 1
The Grunwald Monument, 1910
The Grunwald Monument was unveiled on 15 July 1910, the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald. It was funded by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and designed by Antoni Wiwulski and Franciszek Black. From November 1939 to April 1940 the Germans systematically demolished it. Today's monument is a reconstruction by Marian Konieczny from 1976. In front of it is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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You are standing where, in July nineteen ten, Kraków celebrated five hundred years since the Battle of Grunwald. A hundred and fifty thousand people of Kraków, and many visitors, came to the unveiling of the monument. It was funded by Ignacy Paderewski. On that day the king on horseback was still made of plaster, only patinated to look like bronze. The bronze cast was put in place three years later. From November nineteen thirty-nine, the Germans took the monument apart piece by piece, and blew up the pedestal with dynamite. What you see today was recreated in the nineteen-seventies by Marian Konieczny, from the model and from old photographs. Look at the king's legs. The pre-war Jagiełło sat in the saddle with his knees bent. Today's king stands in the stirrups.
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