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Marriage Memorial with the Sea
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Dorota Niećko
2025-04-06
2025-04-06
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And then he threw a ringing into the sea. Thus the Polish Army married the Baltic. It was the second matrimony to the sea in history. The first was held on 10 February 1920 in Puck.
The monument was to stand in the port of Kołobrzeg, yet is by the footwalk
The thought of the monument was born in 1958, erstwhile the 15th anniversary of the Polish Army was celebrated in Kołobrzeg. The construction fund-raiser has begun.
- Initially, the monument was to stand at the place where the ceremony of Polish matrimony with the Sea actually took place. Unfortunately, monuments of considerable size could not be placed close the port, so it was decided to place this monument in a close park, approx. 300 meters from the place of the historical wedding - wrote Igor Michał Niewiadniski, in the publication Rocznik Kołobrzeski 2022.
A competition was announced for the plan of the monument. On 17 March 1963, on the 18th anniversary of the liberation of Kołobrzeg, a tube with an erection act was placed in the foundation of the monument.
Author of the matrimony Monument with the Sea: Wiktor Tołkin
The Polish matrimony Memorial with the Sea in Kołobrzeg is already after a thorough renovation and virtually shines on the shore of the Baltic Sea.
The author of the 20 metres advanced statue of ferro-beton is Viktor Tołkin, sculptor and architect, an outstanding creator of the 20th century. It was unveiled in 1963. Legend says that moving from 1 side of the monument to the another on apnea will bring fulfillment of the previously thought-out wish.
In 2025, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the fight for the city, the ceremonies in Kołobrzeg were already held under the thoroughly cleaned and renovated Polish matrimony Monument with the Sea - the second specified symbol in Poland.
This is the first specified major renovation in 60 years, although works were besides carried out here in 2014 - at the time the construction was in truly bad condition.
It was in Kołobrzeg, on the shore of the Baltic Sea, on 18 March 1945, that Franciszek Niewidziła, standing on the wall of the east pier of the Kolobrzeg port, spoke memorable words:
We came, the sea, after a dense and bloody toil. We can see that he did not go to all our trouble. We curse we will never leave you. Throwing a ringing at your waves, I will marry you due to the fact that you have been and will always be ours.
We came, the sea, after a dense and bloody toil. We can see that he did not go to all our trouble. We curse we will never leave you. Throwing a ringing at your waves, I will marry you due to the fact that you have been and will always be ours.
And then he threw a ringing into the sea. Thus the Polish Army married the Baltic. It was the second matrimony to the sea in history. The first was held on 10 February 1920 in Puck.
The monument was to stand in the port of Kołobrzeg, yet is by the footwalk
The thought of the monument was born in 1958, erstwhile the 15th anniversary of the Polish Army was celebrated in Kołobrzeg. The construction fund-raiser has begun.
- Initially, the monument was to stand at the place where the ceremony of Polish matrimony with the Sea actually took place. Unfortunately, monuments of considerable size could not be placed close the port, so it was decided to place this monument in a close park, approx. 300 meters from the place of the historical wedding - wrote Igor Michał Niewiadniski, in the publication Rocznik Kołobrzeski 2022.
A competition was announced for the plan of the monument. On 17 March 1963, on the 18th anniversary of the liberation of Kołobrzeg, a tube with an erection act was placed in the foundation of the monument.
Author of the matrimony Monument with the Sea: Wiktor Tołkin
The monument is written by Wiktor Tołkin, sculptor and architect, a postgraduate of the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology. “It was close to the University of Technology, I signed up for architecture, it was close to the art college, I signed up for art, and I finished both universities,” he said in 2008 an interview with Małgorzata Bramy from the Archive of past of the Spoken Warsaw Uprising Museum.
Viktor Tołkin was celebrated as the creator of many outstanding monuments and a leading typical - alongside Xaver Danikowski and Franciszek Dusheńka - of the Polish monumental monument sculpture of the second half of the 20th century. He dedicated his monuments to martyrdom and heroic events. The most celebrated of them are monuments in erstwhile concentration camps in Stutthof and Majdanek. They're not truly monuments, but all architectural assumptions.
In his task for Kołobrzeg he referred to the times of the mediate Ages and the ideology of Western and Northern Lands - or Recovered Lands.
The city, with a population of 36,800 in 1940, returned to Poland as a desert of ruins and ruins - said Tołkin at the monument's design.
Viktor Tołkin was celebrated as the creator of many outstanding monuments and a leading typical - alongside Xaver Danikowski and Franciszek Dusheńka - of the Polish monumental monument sculpture of the second half of the 20th century. He dedicated his monuments to martyrdom and heroic events. The most celebrated of them are monuments in erstwhile concentration camps in Stutthof and Majdanek. They're not truly monuments, but all architectural assumptions.
In his task for Kołobrzeg he referred to the times of the mediate Ages and the ideology of Western and Northern Lands - or Recovered Lands.
The city, with a population of 36,800 in 1940, returned to Poland as a desert of ruins and ruins - said Tołkin at the monument's design.
Historical function of the Liberation Monument in Kolobrzeg
The plans for building the monument are in the State Archives in Koszalin.
On the thought of the Kołobrzeg Liberation Monument at the phase of the Tołkin project, he wrote: The Liberation Monument is fundamentally erected to commemorate the historical minute erstwhile the units of the First Army of the Polish Army scope the Baltic. Both the basic subject of the monument and its location clearly talk about it. His unveiling will affect historical dates.
The historical function of the monument was highlighted with elements of relief and inscriptions. The monument will be the place to which all trips will be directed, visiting Kołobrzeg, and its visibility from the sea side will be included in the locations and on the sea maps. It will remind everyone who flows close the ships – it will remind about the age of Polishness of these lands and the actions of the Polish soldier.
Monument by the sea: blue sky and yellow sand
But it was besides crucial to him how the monument would look and affect the landscape.
- I'm sorry. The monument is to stand by the sea, on the edge of the dune shore and the beach. In the back, it has a park through which it will organically connect to the city. The architecture of the monument should have a viewable value and in its core it fits the modern architecture of modern Kołobrzeg - we read the description of the Tołkin project.
The location of the monument makes it essential to usage colors /green park, yellow sand beach, blue sky and steel-smaraged sea/. The main colour component must be the tower, which should have either a polarising and coloured cladding or made of the appropriate material of desired colour and texture. This will besides be an expression of joy. The monument is not a monument to martyrdom, (..) expresses the happiness of the present days - emphasized the sculptor and architect.
- I'm sorry. In the lower part, this tower has a flight, as if a gate with arched vault, through which soldiers pass in the form of a massive lump. On the forehead of this part were clearly forged 3 soldiers – according to the past of 3 Polish soldiers in front of the gathered army entered the sea and put a white-red flag into the bottom of the Baltic. In addition to soldiers, figures with a symbolic appearance... are easy to recognize. These are Boleslaw's warriors.
1963 and 30,000 people at the unveiling
The work was organized by the Social Construction Committee of the matrimony Monument with the Sea. The general contractor and designer was the PP Expo “Workshop of Plastic Arts” in Koszalin. The mosaic on the monument was performed by artist Władysław Jackievicz. The main subcontractors were Kołobrzeskie Przedsiębiorstwo Budowlano-Montażowe and the company "Hydrobudowa". But besides in the construction - socially - the city residents worked, as well as soldiers and employees of the Municipal Green Board. The ceremonial unveiling of the matrimony Monument took place on November 3, 1963. As many as 30,000 people participated in the ceremonies, including the highest state authorities and Franciszek Niewidziła.
Marriage Memorial with the Sea.
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The form of the monument is symbolic - it is expected to symbolize victory. The tower is simply a stylized flag, and the falling fabric lobe creates a clearance symbolizing the "window to the world" - that is, access to the sea.
The monument is about 20 meters high
It is made of ferrobethone
The lower, expanded base is covered with reliefs. They present medieval wars and soldiers of the Polish Army.
The monument is decorated with mosaics with motifs referring to Polish past and commemorative inscriptions, specified as: “The monuments have passed and we are standing on your shore again. We've been here and we'll be."
Around the block of the monument there were 24 plaques with names of units of the Polish Army taking part in fighting for Kołobrzeg and granite plates with coats of arms of Koszalin, Gdańsk, Szczecin and Kołobrzeg.
The form of the monument is symbolic - it is expected to symbolize victory. The tower is simply a stylized flag, and the falling fabric lobe creates a clearance symbolizing the "window to the world" - that is, access to the sea.
The monument is about 20 meters high
It is made of ferrobethone
The lower, expanded base is covered with reliefs. They present medieval wars and soldiers of the Polish Army.
The monument is decorated with mosaics with motifs referring to Polish past and commemorative inscriptions, specified as: “The monuments have passed and we are standing on your shore again. We've been here and we'll be."
Around the block of the monument there were 24 plaques with names of units of the Polish Army taking part in fighting for Kołobrzeg and granite plates with coats of arms of Koszalin, Gdańsk, Szczecin and Kołobrzeg.
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