Victory Square (Szczecin)

The General Władysław Anders Square (Polish: Plac gen. Władysława Andersa), also known as the General Władysław Anders Park (Polish: Park gen. Władysława Andersa), is a garden square in Szczecin, Poland, in the neighbourhood of Centrum, within the Downtown district. It is located between Więckowskiego, Śląska, Bałuki, Św. Wojciecha Streets, and the Victory Square. The area was originally founded in 1846 as a military cemetery, which was eventually closed for burials in the 1900s, and torn down and turned in a garden square in 1945.

The statue of Jan Czekanowski (Polish: Pomnik Jana Czekanowskiego) is a brass sculpture in Szczecin, Poland, placed at the Anders Square, within the Centre neighbourhood of the Downtown district. It is dedicated to Jan Czekanowski, an anthropologist, statistician, ethnographer, traveller, and linguist, who was one of the first persons to use quantitative methods in linguistics. The sculpture has a form of a statue sitting on a large suitcase, forming a bench. It was designed by sculptor Yossouf Toure "Derme" based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and unveiled on 19 May 2012.

The Kornel Ujejski Memorial (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkɔr.nɛl uˈjɛj.ski]; Polish: Pomnik Kornela Ujejskiego; Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Корнелю Уєйському, romanized: Pam'yatnyk Kornelyu Uyeysʹkomu) is a monument in Szczecin, Poland, within the Downtown district. It is placed at the Victory Square, near the Harbour Gate, within the neighbourhood of New Town. It is dedicated to Kornel Ujejski (1823–1897), a 19th-century Romantic poet and political activist. The monument has a form of a bronze bust placed on a granite pedestal. It was designed by Antoni Popiel, and originally unveiled on Lviv, then located in the Second Polish Republic, and now in Ukraine. The monument was placed in front ofthe City Cassino at 13 Shevchenko Avenue (then known as Academic Street), which is now occupied by the Lviv Regional Universal Scientific Library. The monument was taken down in 1946, and returned to Poland in 1950, where it was displayed in the Wilanów Garden in Warsaw until 1956. It was unveiled at the Victory Square on 27 November 1956. Originally, it was placed near the St. Adalbert Church, and was moved closed to the Harbour Gate in the 1970s.

The Duplicating Machine Memorial (Polish: Pomnik Powielacza) is a monument in Szczecin, Poland, placed at the Victory Square, within the neighbourhood of New Town. It commemorates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Freedom and Peace Movement, a dissident organization operating in opposition to the government of the Polish People's Republic from 1985 to 1992. It was founded following the protests opposing the arrest and imprisonment in Szczecin of Marek Adamkiewicz, a member of the Independent Students' Association, after he refused to serve in the military. The sculpture has form of a spirit duplicator, a type of duplicating machine used by the organisation to print its publications, encased in a desiccated glycerol resin, and placed on a concrete pedestal. It was designed by Dorota Tołłoczko-Femerling, and assembled by Piotr Pawelko, and unveiled on 12 June 2010.

The Amphitrite Fountain (German: Amphitrite-Brunnen; Polish: Fontanna Amfitryty), also known as the Amphitrite Monument (Polish: Pomnik Amfitryty), and the Felderhoff Fountain (German: Felderhoff-Brunnen; Polish: Fontanna Felderhoffa), was a Baroque Revival fountain sculpture in the city of Szczecin, Poland (then German Empire), placed at the intersection of current Independence Avenue, Wyszyńskiego Street, and the Victory Square, in front of the Harbour Gate. Designed by Reinhold Felderhoff, it depicted Amphitrite, goddess of the sea in the Greek mythology, as a nude female figure, standing on a chariot drawn by two galloping horses. It was unveiled in 1902, and removed in 1932. It is currently considered as a lost work of art.

The Harbour Gate (Polish: Brama Portowa; German: Hafentor), formerly known as the Berlin Gate (Polish: Brama Berlińska; German: Berliner Tor), and the Brandenburg Gate (Polish: Brama Brandenburska; German: Brandenburger Tor), is a historic Baroque city gate in Szczecin, Poland, located at the intersection of Independence Avenue, Wyszyńskiego Street, and Victory Square. It was constructed between 1725 and 1727, with the project being designed by Gerhard Cornelius van Wallrawe, and its elaborate façade sculptures done by Bartholomé Damart. It served as one of the entraces to the city, and was part of the fortification walls, until 1841, when they were deconstructed. Currently, it serves as a community theatre venue.

The Concord Square (Polish: Plac Zgody) is an urban square in Szczecin, Poland. It is located in the district of Śródmieście, at the boundary of neighbourhoods of Centrum and Śródmieście-Zachód, at the intersection of Wojska Polskiego Avenue, Księcia Bogusława X Street, Bohaterów Getta Warszawskiego Street, and Bałuki Street.

The Galeria Kaskada is a shopping centre in Szczecin, Poland, located at 36 Niepodległości Avenue. The building was opened on 28 September 2011, and belongs to the ECE Polska company.

The Palace of the Pomeranian Landowners (Polish: Pałac Ziemstwa Pomorskiego), also known as the General Landscape Administration of Pomerania Building (German: Gebäude der Pommersche Generallandschaftsdirektion), is a historical Baroque Revival palace in Szczecin, Poland, located at 40 Independence Avenue in the neighbourhood of Centrum. It was designed by Emil Drews, and constructed between 1893 and 1895, as the headquarters of the General Landscape Administration of Pomerania and the Pomeranian Rural Bank. Since 2016, it houses the Faculty of Music of the Szczecin Art Academy.

Independence Avenue (Polish: Aleja Niepodległości) is an avenue street in Szczecin, Poland, located in the Downtown district, crossing the neighbourhoods of Centre and New Town. It is placed on north–south axis. At its northern end, it intersects with and Adamowicz Square, Bałuki Street, Emancipation Avenue, and Polish Soldier Square, and at its southern end, with Dworcowa and Trzeciego Maja Streets. Along its length, it also forms intersections with Bogurodzicy Street, Victory Square, and Wyszyńskiego Street. It is primarily surrounded by tenement houses and apartment buildings. It also features the Post Office Building no. 1, a Gothic Revival building from 1905, currently used by the Polish Post, the Pomeranian Landowners Palace, a Baroque Revival building from 1895, currently used by the Szczecin Art Academy, and the Galeria Kaskada shopping centre. Independence Avenue was first formed in 1725 as an urban square, known as the Green Parade Square (German: Grüner Paradeplatz; Polish: Zielony Plac Parad). At the beginning of the 19th century, it was transformed into a wide pedestrian avenue with rows of trees, and from 1809, it was simply known as the Parade Square (German: Paradeplatz; Polish: Plac Parad), receiving its current name in 1945.

Brama Portowa I (Polish pronunciation: [ˈbrãma pɔrˈtɔva ˈjɛdɛ̃n]) is an A-class office building located in the quarter bounded by Niepodległości Avenue, Wyszyński Street and Tkacka Street, in the Old Town, in the Śródmieście district. Brama Portowa I earned a LEED Gold certification.

The Spinning Top (Polish: Fryga, colloquially also Bączek) was a modernist sculpture in Szczecin, Poland, placed at the Ludwik Zamenhof Square. It was designed by Maurycy Gomulicki, and unveiled on 22 October 2015. Due to manufacturing error, it begun quickly deteriorating, and following unsuccessful repair attempts, it was ultimately removed on 18 December 2016. The sculpture had a form of several polymer concrete rings, stacked vertically on a metal pole, alternating between red and yellow.