Monument to Magdeburg Law

Monument to the Magdeburg Law in Kiev

Monument in the evening with a view towards the Dnieper

The Monument to Magdeburg Law ( Ukrainian Пам'ятник Магдебурзькому праву Pamjatnyk Mahdeburskomu prawu ) is also called the Monument to the Baptism of the Kievan Rus and is considered the oldest monument in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev .

The monument, built by the architect Andrei Iwanowitsch Melenski between 1802 and 1808, is located in Podil near the Dneprufer and is intended to mark the granting of Magdeburg law under the King of Poland Johann I. Albrecht to the city of Kiev in the period between 1492 and 1497 remember.

description

The classical monument consists of an 18 meter high Tuscan column crowned by a golden ball with a cross on it, which stands on a base with 4 pylons 5 meters high.

Web links

Commons : Monument to Magdeburg Law  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the monument (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Schäfer: Kiev, tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr. 3rd edition, Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 80-82; Description of the monument on gorod.kiev.ua , accessed March 2, 2014 (Russian)

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  N , 30 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  E