The monument to Baron Munchausen
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Central Park Kaliningrad is one of the most original monuments dedicated to outstanding personality - Baron Munchausen. The monument was installed in June 2005 on the initiative of the NGO "grandchildren Munchausen." Sculpture artistic blacksmiths George pet from Germany was a gift to the 750th anniversary of the city.

The sculpture consists of a steel wall, which cut silhouette flying at the core of Baron Munchausen, core and pedestal, on opposite sides of which are written the names of two cities (Koenigsberg and Kaliningrad). On the pedestal is a plaque stating that this sculpture was donated to the city of Kaliningrad Bodenwerder, is home to the prototype Munchausen - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron von Munchausen. It is well known that the famous Baron visited Koenigsberg twice - on the way to St. Petersburg (the service in the Russian army) and back. At the unveiling of the monument dedicated to the hero of the book R.E.Raspe, came about fifty residents Bodenverd.

The sculpture is made so that it is possible in the absence of a fragment silhouette climb, and found himself on the core, represent the flight of Baron Munchausen. Also in Kaliningrad (in the fishing village) is a monument to his boot resourceful Baron.

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