Voting Monument (Marienburg)
The Marienburg Voting Monument was a memorial column in Marienburg (today Malbork, Poland), which commemorated the referendum of 1920 in the Marienwerder voting area in northeastern West Prussia .
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According to the Treaty of Versailles, in a referendum in July 1920, the residents of four West Prussian and eleven East Prussian districts decided whether to join or remain with East Prussia (and thus with Germany) or to join the Second Republic of Poland . In the Marienburg district (West Prussia) , 17,805 voters voted for East Prussia and 191 for Poland. In the entire Marienwerder voting area, 96,923 eligible voters voted for East Prussia and 8,018 for Poland.
The monument erected on a square on the south side of the castle consisted in its original design of a column crowned by a statue of a knight by the sculptor Victor Seifert . The unveiling took place on June 4, 1922. After Marienburg was annexed to Poland in 1945, a statue of the Virgin Mary was placed on the shortened column in place of the knight .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 18 ″ N , 19 ° 1 ′ 36.6 ″ E