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Jan Bohdan Chmielewski, współpraca Mieczysław Kozłowski i Ryszard Piotrowski, pomnik Żołnierzy I Armii Wojska Polskiego, 1978, piaskowiec, Berlin, Hohen-Neuendorf, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2013
Licencja: CC BY-SA 4.0, Źródło: Instytut Polonika, Warunki licencji
Fotografia przedstawiająca Monument to Soldiers of the Polish First Army in Berlin
Jan Bohdan Chmielewski, współpraca Mieczysław Kozłowski i Ryszard Piotrowski, pomnik Żołnierzy I Armii Wojska Polskiego, 1978, piaskowiec, Berlin, Hohen-Neuendorf, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2013
Licencja: CC BY-SA 4.0, Źródło: Instytut Polonika, Warunki licencji
Fotografia przedstawiająca Monument to Soldiers of the Polish First Army in Berlin
Jan Bohdan Chmielewski, współpraca Mieczysław Kozłowski i Ryszard Piotrowski, pomnik Żołnierzy I Armii Wojska Polskiego, 1978, piaskowiec, Berlin, Hohen-Neuendorf, photo Andrzej Pieńkos, 2013
Licencja: CC BY-SA 4.0, Źródło: Instytut Polonika, Warunki licencji
Fotografia przedstawiająca Monument to Soldiers of the Polish First Army in Berlin
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Monument to Soldiers of the Polish First Army in Berlin

ID: POL-001338-P

Monument to Soldiers of the Polish First Army in Berlin

In the centre of the town, which is now part of the northern suburbs of Berlin, at the junction of three streets in a large square, there is a memorial site - a square paved with granite blocks - consisting of three flagpoles, flat candle bowls and a flat elevation from which rise three lumps of stylised eagles on plinths. Between them, in the centre of the whole establishment, is a stone slab with a bilingual inscription-dedication: "to the heroic soldiers of the 1st Army of the People's Polish Army". The juxtaposition of the essentially white (eagles) and red (plinths and inscription slab) sandstones used was to be arranged in the colours of the Polish flag. The now mossy stones no longer reveal this original concept. The simple, archaic form of the monument is fairly typical of Polish realisations of the time, commemorating the Second World War, but rather atypical of Chmielewski's oeuvre, who in his monumental realisations mainly used fairly clear figuration.

Nearby, in Karl-Marx-Strasse, there is a municipal cemetery with the graves of numerous Polish soldiers, as well as a memorial to Soviet soldiers. Hohen Neuendorf lay on the line of the main attack on Berlin from the north. The memorial is periodically the site of celebrations for the liberation of Berlin, also organised by the local authorities.

Time of origin:
unveiled 11.10.1978
Creator:
Jan Bohdan Chmielewski(preview), Ryszard Piotrowski (rzeźbiarz)(preview), Mieczysław Kozłowski (rzeźbiarz)(preview)
Bibliography:
  • Irena Grzesiuk-Olszewska, „Polska rzeźba pomnikowa w latach 1945-1995”, Warszawa 1995, s. 316.
Author:
prof. Andrzej Pieńkos
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