Description of the attraction
One of the most original monuments dedicated to a prominent personality - Baron Munchausen is located in the Central Park of Kaliningrad. The monument was erected in June 2005 at the initiative of the public organization "Munchausen's grandchildren". The sculpture of the master of art forging Georg Petau from Germany became a gift for the 750th anniversary of the city.
The sculptural composition consists of: a steel wall, in which the silhouette of Baron Munchausen flying on the nucleus is carved, a nucleus and a pedestal, on opposite sides of which two names of the city are written (Koenigsberg and Kaliningrad). There is a tablet on the pedestal stating that this sculpture was donated to Kaliningrad by the city of Bodenwerder, which is the birthplace of the Munchausen prototype - Karl Jerome Friedrich Baron von Munchausen. It is known that the famous baron visited Koenigsberg twice - on the way to Petersburg (to serve in the Russian army) and back. About fifty residents of the city of Bodenwerd came to the opening of the monument dedicated to the hero of the book R. E. Raspe.
The sculptural composition is made in such a way that it is possible to crawl into the missing fragment of the silhouette and, once on the nucleus, depict the flight of Baron Munchausen himself. Also in Kaliningrad (in the Rybnaya village) there is a monument to the boot of the resourceful baron.
