Statues, monuments and memorial plaques

House U Mouřenína

náměstí Míru 48

This building with brewing rights located near the Old Town Hall is one of the oldest preserved civic houses in Svitavy. The families of Svitavy magistrates originally lived in the house, but in the 18th...

Ottendorfer´s House - Museum of Esperanto

náměstí Míru 1

Historical building – Ottendorfer’s House, built as a public library and study hall with a concert hall. It was built by a citizen of New York, the patron Svitav and famous native Valentin Oswald Ottendorfer...

Ecco Homo statue

Sturmer's Ecce Homo sculpture was installed next to the Holy Trinity Column; today the work has been restored, though not with the original polychromatic finish.

Jewish cemetery Svitavy

The cemetery was founded in 1892; during the Second World War the cemetery fell into disrepair and tombstones were stolen or knocked over. At the beginning of the 21st century the town restored the cemetery...

Liberation Memorial

In 1945 the sculptor Josef Kadlec, a native of Borová u Poličky, arrived in Svitavy and nearly immediately received a commission to create a memorial to commemorate the liberation of Svitavy.

Memorial plaque to General Suvorov and Viktor Felber

Russian General A. V. Suvorov spent the night in Svitavy on 2 February 1800 while returning from Switzerland. A commemorative plaque by sculptor Josef Kadlec was unveiled in Svitavy in 1950. In 1994 a...

Monument of Bee Queens - monument, well

At the site of today's memorial, the original German beekeepers had a fertilization station for bee queens. From historical sources it seems that a stone monument was erected here in 1932 bearing the names...

Monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The bronze plaque from the workshop of artist Martin Horký is mounted to the original restored stone from the artistic workshop of Daniel Bartoš. Everything is installed in the composition of architect...

Oskar Schindler memorial plaque Svitavy

The plaque to Oskar Schindler is located opposite his house. Oskar Schindler was a very controversial person during the World War II – he was a member of the NSDAP but saved the lives of 1200 Jews who...

Statue Maternal Love

Ottendorfer wanted to commemorate his mother Katherine was this sculpture and give thanks to motherly instincts in general. Adolf von Donndorf, a professor at the academy in Stuttgart, was awarded the...

Statue of the Holy Trinity

The statue was created in the workshops of sculptors of the so-called Pacák group. František Pacák was a close collaborator of Matyáš Braun and in 1725 he established his own sculpture workshop in Litomyšl...

Statue of a Soviet soldier