List of monuments in Gliwice

This list includes the monuments, statues, fountains, statues, memorials and sculptures in the public space of the city of Gliwice , which was Gleiwitz in Germany until 1945 .

Some of them have been removed, rearranged, remodeled or even destroyed from their original location over the decades. This is noted under the prefix Status.

The oldest sculptures in the city are the Neptune Fountain on the Ring and the Nepomuk figure on the Trinity Church.

Overview

Workers
statue Location: Formerly Reichspräsidentsplatz Erected:

Disappeared since 1945.

Bank
Location: Erected:

Bench with two sculptures

" Fountain with dancing faunas "
Location: Green area in front of the city administration ( Upper Silesia House ) in ul. Zwycięstwa (Victory Street). Erected: 1928

Fountain by Hans Dammann

"Christ the divine child-friend"
Location: Lindenfriedhof (Cmentarz Lipowy) Erected:

Sculpture by the sculptor Paul Ondrusch . Memorial for 76 children who died in a fire in 1919. On the memorial was the inscription “Let the little children come to me”, removed after 1945.

“Memorial for the soldiers of the Uhlan Regiment von Katzler (Silesian) No. 2 who died in the First World War”
Location: formerly in the city park, on the promenade. Erected: June 13, 1926

Design by the sculptor Hans Dietzsch-Sachsenhausen , removed and scrapped by the Poles in 1945.
The Chopin monument now stands on the preserved step substructure .

"Memorial to the fallen in World War I"
Location: Lindenfriedhof (Cmentarz Lipowy) Erected:

Monument by the sculptor Hanns Breitenbach . Part of the memorial is the sculpture “The Mourners”. The memorial commemorates around 440 victims (Germans, Russians, Romanians, Serbs, French and Italians) of the First World War .

Franciscan figure
Location: Erected:

From Hanns Breitenbach .

Frédéric Chopin Monument
Location: Erected:

Was erected on the pedestal of the Ulan monument.

"Gänselieselbrunnen"
Location: Formerly on Ottokarstrasse in the Reichsbahn settlement in Petersdorf ( Szobiszowice ) .

Destroyed after 1945.

Memorial hall as regimental memorial 1914-18 of the Infantry Regiment Keith (1st Upper Silesia) No. 22
Location: Formerly in the city park Erected:

Design by the architect Wilhelm Heilig . Consecration on the anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig on October 18, 1924. The building was demolished after 1945. On the outer wall was the inscription: "In memory of our fallen". The foundation has been preserved.

Fallen memorial
Location: Jewish cemetery Erected:

Memorial to those who died in the First World War from the Jewish community.

Fallen memorial
Location: Żerniki (Zernik) Erected:

"War memorial for the sons of the Tost-Gleiwitz district who died in 1870/71".
Location: 1874–1926 - Germaniaplatz (today Piastów), 1926–1945 - in Wilhelmspark. Erected: on Sedan Day , September 2, 1874

Design by the sculptor Ferdinand Hartzer . The monument disappeared after 1945, probably destroyed.

Hedwig sculpture
Location: Erected:

Hyacinth sculpture
Location: Erected:

Jahn monument
Location: Erected:

Memorial for "gymnastics father" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn . Whereabouts unknown

Keith Memorial
Location: on Keith Street Erected: July 8, 1913 - on the occasion of the regiment's foundation on July 1, 1813

Dedication on the left side of the base: “To the Infantry Regiment / Keith (1. O. –S.) No. 22 / in memory / of his 100th anniversary / anniversary ”. The memorial is lost.

" Boy with a swan "
Location: Skwer Dessau Erected:

" Lying Lions "
Location: In Chopin Park in front of the Palm House Erected:

Two copies of the lion by Johann Gottfried Schadow

Lion sculpture
Location: In Łabędy Erected:

Sculpture of a concrete lion

Lion sculptures
Location: In front of the Gliwickie Zakłady Urządzeń Technicznych Erected:

Two copies of the lion by Johann Gottfried Schadow

Marienfigur
Location: Erected:

Marian column
Location: On the east wall of the town hall Erected: 1730

Sculpture by Johann Melchior Austria

Adam Mickiewicz statue
Location: Erected:

Nepomuk figure
Location: Erected in front of the Church of the Holy Trinity :

" Neptune Fountain "
Location: Ring in the old town Built:

Józef Piłsudski statue
Location: Erected:

" Sleeping Lion " or " Lion Monument" as a war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Wars of Liberation.
Location: Formerly in the city park (promenade). Erected: 1913

The sculptor Joseph Breitkopf-Cosel created the design . Disappeared since the 1960s

Gliwice transmission tower
Location: ul. Tarnogórska (Tarnowitzer Landstrasse) in Szobiszowice (Petersdorf) Erected: 1935–1938

118 meter high larch wood construction

Figure of Mary with Jesus
Location: Erected:

Sculpture by Hanns Breitenbach .

Sculpture in front of the oncology department (formerly the State Women's Clinic of the Province of Upper Silesia)
Location: Erected:

Sculpture by the sculptor Hans Dammann. The figure of a woman with two children represents an allegory of motherhood

Watching lion
Location: In front of the museum ( Villa Caro ) in Niederwallstraße Erected:

Since 1934 in front of Villa Caro, before that on the hut grounds