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Franz Joseph I Statue

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The bronze statue of Franz Joseph was designed in 2008 by the Chernivtsi artists and sculptors Volodymyr Zisaryk and Serhiy Ivanov. The monument was unveiled a year later, on 3 October 2009. The monument is a memorial and a tribute to Emperor Franz Joseph I, during whose reign (1848-1916) Bukovina and especially the city of Chernivtsi flourished.

Franz Joseph I Statue
Monuments
built
2008 - 2009

The statue of Franz Joseph is located in a green area next to the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and today's Gymnasium No. 5 (formerly II. k.k. State Grammar School or Liceul Marele Voievod Mihai, which was also attended by Paul Antschel/Celan and Immanuel Weissglas in the 1930s) on Myrona Korduby Street. The statue was erected on the initiative of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, then Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament and a native of Chernivtsi (he was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016). He laid the statue's foundation stone on 4 October 2008 to mark the 600th anniversary of the city's founding (Chernivtsi was first mentioned in 1408).

Text: Kateryna Stetsevych

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