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King Jagiello Monument

King Jagiello Monument is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand King Jagiello Monument rather than just read about it. In short: The King Jagiełło Monument (Polish: Pomnik Króla Jagiełły) is an equestrian monument of Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, located in Central Park, New York City. The monument commemorates the Battle of Grunwald, a decisive defeat of the Teutonic Order in 1410.

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Reference excerpt

The King Jagiełło Monument (Polish: Pomnik Króla Jagiełły) is an equestrian monument of Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, located in Central Park, New York City. The monument commemorates the Battle of Grunwald, a decisive defeat of the Teutonic Order in 1410. Initially made by Stanisław K. Ostrowski for the Polish 1939 New York World's Fair pavilion, the monument was permanently installed in Central Park in 1945. Raised on its grand plinth, it is one of the park's most prominently cited and impressive among the twenty-nine sculptures.

Description

The monument is sited overlooking the east end of the Turtle Pond, across from Belvedere Castle, and just southeast from the Great Lawn. To the northeast is Cleopatra's Needle and beyond, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The monument commemorates the Battle of Grunwald (1410), where Polish and Lithuanian knights, supported by Ruthenian, Czech, and Tatar knights, defeated the Teutonic Order. King Władysław II Jagiełło is shown larger than life, seated on a horse holding two crossed swords over his head as a symbol of defiance and the union of Polish–Lithuanian forces. Known as the Grunwald Swords, they were the invitation to battle offered to the king and his ally Vytautas the Great in an ironic gesture by Ulrich von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Parks Chief Consulting Architect Aymar Embury II (1880–1966) designed the massive granite pedestal. POLAND is inscribed on both sides of the plinth. Ostrowski's name is engraved in the front lower right-hand corner. The inscription on the plinth of the King Jagiello monument reads:

History

The bronze monument was created for the 1939 New York World's Fair's Polish pavilion by the Polish sculptor Stanisław K. Ostrowski (1879–1947). It stood at the Fair's entrance at Queens' Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It is a replica of a King Jagiello memorial in Warsaw that was converted into bullets for World War II by the Germans after they entered and occupied the capital of Poland. As a result of the German invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of the Second World War, the personnel and equipment of the Polish World's Fair pavilion were forced to remain in the United States. Unlike much of the rest of the pavilion, which was sold to the Polish Museum of America in Chicago, the monument stayed in New York, thanks in part to Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia publicly lobbying to keep the statue. The statue was presented to the City of New York by the King Jagiello Monument Committee, with support from the Polish government in exile on July 15, 1945, when it was permanently placed in Central Park with the cooperation of the last consul of the Second Polish Republic or pre-communist Poland in New York, count Józef Kazimierz Krasicki and unveiled by him. The event was a little over two months after Victory in Europe Day (May 8) and the 535th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald. The monument was conserved in 1986 by the Central Park Conservancy. Further conservation was completed in September 2016. The support structure, which attaches the monument to the granite base, was the major endeavor as well as the installation of a new stainless steel mounting system for the statue. Additional work included the restoration the statue's patina and protective coating.

References

External links

Short film showing the monument in front of Polish Pavilion at 1939 New York World's Fair

Illustrations

King Jagiello Monument: The monument in 1939 — The monument in 1939

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with King Jagiello Monument

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what King Jagiello Monument claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to King Jagiello Monument before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about King Jagiello Monument ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of King Jagiello Monument

In research: King Jagiello Monument appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses King Jagiello Monument in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: King Jagiello Monument is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1939 establishments in New York City, 1939 sculptures, Bronze sculptures in Central Park, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for King Jagiello Monument outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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