Sigismund's Column is the most famous monument of Warsaw and - next to the Little Mermaid - a symbol of the city. But does everyone, even the residents of Warsaw, know when it was built, who built it, and how many columns there actually were?
The first column was erected on November 24.1644 at the initiative of King Wladyslaw IV in honor of his father Sigismund III. It was the first secular monument in Warsaw - until this day, only figures of saints or allegorical figures were installed. The authors of the monument were two Italians: sculptor Clemente Molli, creator of the statue of the king, and architect Constantino Tencalla, designer of the monument. The bronze cast of the statue was made by Daniel Tim from Gdań sk.
This column was made of conglomerate from a quarry in the Ś wię tokrzyskie Mountains, near Czę ciny. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock formed from fragments of old rocks, secondarily connected by a limestone binder. Polished conglomerate has a brownish-reddish color.
After the column was made, this rock became known, it was called the Sigismund conglomerate, and the quarry in which it was mined - Zygmuntovka.
Unfortunately, zygmunt conglomerate is not very resistant to weathering. After more than 240 years, the heavily weathered shaft of the column was replaced with a new one. This time, harder and more stable pink granite was imported from Italy. A new column was erected on Castle Square in 1887 and destroyed in January 1945. The Germans blew up Sigismund's column. Its shaft broke into four parts, while the statue of the monarch, although badly damaged, was not completely destroyed. The symbol of Warsaw lay on the cobblestones...From this perspective, you could see that the king had a disproportionately large head in a crown - a visionary sculptor, knowing that the statue would be at a height of 22 m above the level of the Castle Square and would be viewed from below, made corrections in " promising" contraction.
After the war, Sigismund's column was reconstructed. The stone for the pedestal - this time gray, coarse-grained granite - was brought from a quarry in Strzegom in Lower Silesia. The new, third column was erected on Castle Square on July 12.1949. Two earlier columns, one of Sigismund conglomerate and one of Italian granite, can be seen in a small lapidary at the foot of the Royal Castle, on the W-Z Route side.
The first column was erected on November 24.1644 at the initiative of King Wladyslaw IV in honor of his father Sigismund III. It was the first secular monument in Warsaw - until this day, only figures of saints or allegorical figures were installed. The authors of the monument were two Italians: sculptor Clemente Molli, creator of the statue of the king, and architect Constantino Tencalla, designer of the monument. The bronze cast of the statue was made by Daniel Tim from Gdań sk.
This column was made of conglomerate from a quarry in the Ś wię tokrzyskie Mountains, near Czę ciny. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock formed from fragments of old rocks, secondarily connected by a limestone binder. Polished conglomerate has a brownish-reddish color.
After the column was made, this rock became known, it was called the Sigismund conglomerate, and the quarry in which it was mined - Zygmuntovka.
Unfortunately, zygmunt conglomerate is not very resistant to weathering. After more than 240 years, the heavily weathered shaft of the column was replaced with a new one. This time, harder and more stable pink granite was imported from Italy. A new column was erected on Castle Square in 1887 and destroyed in January 1945. The Germans blew up Sigismund's column. Its shaft broke into four parts, while the statue of the monarch, although badly damaged, was not completely destroyed. The symbol of Warsaw lay on the cobblestones...From this perspective, you could see that the king had a disproportionately large head in a crown - a visionary sculptor, knowing that the statue would be at a height of 22 m above the level of the Castle Square and would be viewed from below, made corrections in " promising" contraction.
After the war, Sigismund's column was reconstructed. The stone for the pedestal - this time gray, coarse-grained granite - was brought from a quarry in Strzegom in Lower Silesia. The new, third column was erected on Castle Square on July 12.1949. Two earlier columns, one of Sigismund conglomerate and one of Italian granite, can be seen in a small lapidary at the foot of the Royal Castle, on the W-Z Route side.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original
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