King Jagiello Monument

Coordinates: 40°46′44″N 73°58′0″W / 40.77889°N 73.96667°W / 40.77889; -73.96667
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King Jagiello Monument
Equestrian statue
Materialbronze
Height7 m (23 ft.)
Opening date1939
Dedicated toWładysław II Jagiełło

The King Jagiełło Monument (

twenty-nine sculptures
located in the park.

Description

The monument is sited overlooking the east end of the

Cleopatra's Needle and beyond, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
.

The monument commemorates the

Vytautas the Great in an ironic gesture by Ulrich von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Parks Chief Consulting Architect Aymar Embury II
(1880–1966) designed the granite pedestal. POLAND is inscribed on both sides of the plinth. Ostrowski's name is engraved in the front lower right-hand corner.

The inscription on the

plinth of the King Jagiello monument
reads:

King · Jagiello
Wladyslaw Jagiello
Free Union of the
Peoples of East-Central Europe
Victor Over the Teutonic
Aggressors at Grunwald

July 15 – 1410

History

The monument in 1939
The monument and path by the pond

The

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.[3][2] It is a replica of a King Jagiello memorial in Warsaw that was converted into bullets for World War II by the Germans after they entered and occupied the capital of Poland.[4]

As a result of the

Polish government in exile in July 1945, when it was permanently placed in Central Park with the cooperation of the last consul of the Second Polish Republic or pre-communist Poland in New York, count Józef Kazimierz Krasicki[6] and unveiled by him.[7]

The monument was

conserved in 1986 by the Central Park Conservancy.[3]

References

  1. ^ "King Jagiello Monument". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "The Government Zone (Zone 1) Poland". 1939nyworldsfair.com. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Central Park: King Jagiello Monument". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  4. ^ McDannald, Alexander Hopkins (1948). Yearbook of the Encyclopedia Americana. Americana. p. 498. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  5. ^ "La Guardia Pays Tribute to Poland". The New York Times. October 12, 1939. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  6. JSTOR 25777864
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  7. ^ Zosia Przerwa Tetmajer, Władysław Jagiełło w Centralnym Parku Nowego Yorku (sic), "MY: Biuletyn", nr 15 (rok 51), 15 grudnia 1993, p. 6.

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