Freedom Square (Kharkiv)

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Freedom Square
Майдан Свободи
Coat of arms of Kharkiv.svg
Square in Kharkiv
Freedom Square
Aerial view of the northwest half of the square with the neighboring park
Basic data
place Kharkiv
Created 1926-1931
Hist. Names Dzerzhinskiplatz ( Площа Дзержинського )
Buildings Main building of the university , Dershprom
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , leisure time , motor traffic , events
Technical specifications
Square area 115,000 m²

The Liberty Square ( Ukrainian Майдан Свободи / Площа Свободи ; Russian Площадь Свободы ) in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is one of the largest town squares in Europe.

history

The square in the center of Kharkiv was planned between 1923 and 1925 and completed by 1931. It was originally called Dzerzhinskiplatz ( Площа Дзержинського ), after the professional communist revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky . During the German occupation of the city the place was 1,942 square Wehrmacht and from late March to August 23, 1943 Place of Leibstandarte SS . After Ukraine gained independence in the early 1990s, the square was called Independence Square ( Площа Незалежності ) and since 1998 it has been called Freedom Square.

The Dershprom building on Freedom Square

Design and development

The course is about 690–750 m long, 96–125 m wide and has an area of ​​about 11.5 hectares . In the northwest, the square is circular with a park in the middle, while on the southeast side it has a rectangular, undeveloped area. On the square is the main building of the National Vasyl Karasin University of Kharkiv and the Dershprom building, the first Soviet 13-story skyscraper in the style of constructivism, completed in 1928 . Other buildings on the square were built in the style of socialist classicism . The square is served by two subway lines of the Kharkiv Metro , which cross under the square. At the transition from the round to the right-angled part of the square stood a Lenin monument , inaugurated on November 5, 1963, and a total of 20.2 m high . The 8.5 m high bronze sculpture of Lenin stood on a pedestal made of red granite. On the evening of September 28, 2014, the statue of Lenin was overthrown by pro-Ukrainian demonstrators in Freedom Square. The base was removed in 2018.

Freedom Square with a view to the east. Left the Lenin monument
Freiheitsplatz during the German occupation in 1941, photo Emil Roth (1899–1997)

Web links

Commons : Freedom Square Kharkiv  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the city of Kharkiv ( memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.city.kharkov.ua
  2. The streets and squares of the city .
  3. Photos Kharkiv (Russian).
  4. Protesters overthrew Lenin statue in Kharkiv Tiroler Tageszeitung on September 29, 2014; accessed on March 8, 2020
  5. Площади Свободы вернут первоначальный вид. Retrieved February 2, 2020 (Russian).

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 36 ° 13 ′ 52.5 ″  E