The Aviators Square,[a] until 1945 known as the Augusta Square,[b] is an urban square in Szczecin, Poland. It is located in the neighbourhood of Centrum, within the Downtown district, at the intersection of Pope John Paul II Avenue, Jagiellońska Street, Kaszubska Street, Małopolska Street, and Mazurska Street. It was opened in the 1890s.
History
The Aviators Square (then known as the Augusta Square) in 1909.
The urban square was constructed in the 1890s, as an recreational area. It has a form of a square at the street intersection, with paver flooring and urban green areas. It was surrounded by tenements.[1]
It was named Augusta Square (German: Augustaplatz; Polish: Plac Augusty), after Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress. One of the intersecting roads, the Emperor William Street (now Pope John Paul II Avenue), was named after her husband, William I, the emperor of Germany. In 1945, it was renamed to the Aviators Square.[1]
In the 1950s, around the square was constructed portion of the Downtown Residential District, consisting of several socialist-realist multifamily residential buildings. The square itself was also renovated and remodeled.[1][2]
On 21 August 2002, at the square was placed the monument dedicated to Bartolomeo Colleoni, a 15-century mercenary and a captain general in service of the Republic of Venice. It was ceremonially unveiled on 31 August 2002. The monument was originally made in 1919, as a copy of the statue in Venice, Italy, originally designed by Andrea del Verrocchio, and relocated from Szczecin to Warsaw in 1948, before being returned in 2002.[3]
It has a form of a small square surrounded by road, which forms an intersection of Pope John Paul II Avenue, Jagiellońska Street, Kaszubska Street, Małopolska Street, and Mazurska Street. Its centre has paver flooring, while the outer portion consists of urban green area. It connects via a pathway with the Grunwald Square to the north, and the Paweł Adamowicz Square to the south.[1][2] There is placed the monument dedicated to Bartolomeo Colleoni, a 15-century mercenary and a captain general in service of the Republic of Venice, dating to 1919.[4]
^ abcdEncyklopedia Szczecina, vol. 1: A–O. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 1999, p. 552–553. ISBN 83-87341-45-2. (in Polish)
^ abB.Kozińska: Rozwój przestrzenny Szczecina od początku XIX wieku do II wojny światowej. Szczecin: Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki Oddział Szczeciński, 2002.
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