The Ignacy Boerner Memorial () is a modernist monument in Warsaw, Poland, placed at the corner of Kaliskiego and Kutrzeby Streets, in the Boernerowo neighbourhood of the Bemowo district. The modernist bust sculpture is dedicated to Ignacy Boerner, a military officer and politician, who was the Minister of Post and Telegraphs of Poland from 1929 to 1933, and the founder of Boernerowo. The monument was unveiled on 17 November 2007.
History On 11 November 1988, a commemorative plaque dedicated to Ignacy Boerner, was unveiled at the corner of Kaliskiego and Kutrzeby Streets, in the neighbourhood of Boernerowo.Jerzy Kochanowski: Dziwne są losów koleje… Listy i pamiętniki Ignacego Boernera 1914–1918. Warsaw: State Archives, 2021, p. 48. (in Polish) On 17 November 2007, it was replaced with a modernist monument consisting of a bust of Boerner. On 17 April 2008, the garden square, on which the monument stands, was named after Boerner, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of his death."Uchwała Nr XXIX/896/2008 Rady miasta stołecznego Warszawy z dnia 17 kwietnia 2008 r. w sprawie nadania nazwy skwerowi w Dzielnicy Bemowo m. st. Warszawy", [in:]: Dziennik Urzędowy Województwa Mazowieckiego nr 74, position 2702. Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship Office, 15 May 2008. (in Polish)
Overview The monument is placed at the Colonel Ignacy Boerner Square () at the corner of Kaliskiego and Kutrzeby Streets, in front of the Church of Our Lady of the Sharp Gate. It has the form of a modernist bust of Ignacy Boerner, placed on a cylidrical pedestal. It features a Polish inscription, which reads:
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