Home | Jagiello, Wladyslaw
- CountryPoland
- Town:Kraków
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Year of creation:1914
- Rider(s):Jagiello, Wladyslaw
(c. 1351–1434) ruled in Lithuania from 1377 as its last pagan leader. He was baptized in Kraków in 1386 and married the young reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland. Upon her death in 1399 he started to rule Poland, a reign that would last for thirty-five years. His rule marked the beginning of Poland’s ‘Golden Age’. He laid the foundations for the centuries-long Polish-Lithuanian union, which confronted the growing power of the Teutonic Knights. The victory of the union at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 secured the Polish and Lithuanian borders, and marked the emergence of the Polish-Lithuanian alliance as a significant force in Europe; the largest state in the Christian world.
- Sculptor(s):Wiwulski and Konieczny
Antoni Wiwulski (1877 –1919) was a Polish-Lithuanian architect and sculptor.
Marian Adam Konieczny (1930 – 2017) was a Polish sculptor and politician.
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The monument (also known as the Battle of Grunwald monument) was unveiled on 15th July 1910, i.e. precisely on the 500th anniversary of the battle, in the presence of around 150,000 onlookers.
The monument was destroyed by the Nazis in 1939. Its reconstruction and repeated unveiling did not take place until 1976. The author of the quite faithfully recreated monument was Marian Konieczny.
