Plac marsz. Józefa Piłsudskiego (Warsaw)
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The plac marsz. Józefa Piłsudskiego (German: Marschall-Józef-Piłsudski-Platz ; since 1814 Plac Saski - Sächsischer Platz, since 1928 Plac Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego - Marschall-Józef-Piłsudski-Platz, since 1940 Adolf-Hitler-Platz ), during German occupation since 1946 Plac Zwycięstwa - Victory Square, since 1990 again Plac Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego - Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square) is an originally Baroque square in Warsaw from the beginning of the 18th century. It is part of the Saxon Axis .
The Saxon Palace was located on its western edge until it was destroyed by the German Wehrmacht in 1944 . Today the tomb of the unknown soldier is located in a fragment of the column arcades . On the east side there is the Hotel Europejski and a block with rounded corners, which consists of the cathedral bez Kantów and the barracks of the Warsaw garrison headquarters . Hotel Victoria has been on the south side since 1976 . The Hotel Angielski was located on the north side until the war , and in 2003 the Metropolitan office building by Norman Foster was built in its place . The square was home to the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral from 1912 to 1924 and the Józef Antoni Poniatowski monument until its destruction in 1944 .
The square is named after the Polish military and politician Józef Piłsudski .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 28.4 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 45.9 ″ E