Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument (Szczecin)

The Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument[a] is a bronze equestrian statue in Szczecin, Poland, placed at the Aviators Square, within the neighbourhood of Centrum.

It was financed by Helmut and Else Toepfer, and manufactured in Wüerttembergische Metallwarenfabrik (Wüerttemberg Metal Goods Factory) in Geislingen an der Steige, Germany.

In 1947, the West Pomeranian Committee for the Capital Reconstruction, had given it, together with the rest of the museum's antiquity and renaissance collection, to the city of Warsaw.

[1] The first attempts to recover the collection, which included the statue, were undertaken by members of the Solidarity trade union of the Szczecin National Museum in 1981.

[5] The bronze statue depicts Bartolomeo Colleoni, wearing plate armour and helmet, and holding a sword in his right hand.

It has total height of 4 m, length of 3.6 m, and width of 1.8 m.[1][3][6] It features a plaque with the following inscription: Kopia pomnika Bartolomea Colleoniego powróciła do Szczecina po 54 latach dzięki staranią mieszkańców przy wsparciu władż miasta [The copy of the Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument was returned to Szczecin after 54 years, thanks to the efforts of the city residents, with support from the municipal government]