The statue of King Casimir the Great
In the middle of the market square is a statue of Casimir the Great, erected in 1871 as a result of a patriotic revival connected with the discovery of the monarch's remains. The idea of building the statue in Bochnia initially came from Jan Matejko who, in 1869, created the drawings in the Wawel crypt....
The statue of Holy Father John Paul II
The statue was created after the death of the Pope John Paul II to honour his life. On 7th April 2005, during an especially summoned session, the Town Council of Bochnia passed a resolution concerning the financing the statue of Holy Father John Paul II from the town's budget and donations. The statue was to...
800 Anniversary Memorial
The memorial designed by prof. Czesław Dźwigaj in 1998 commemorates the first mention of the pre-foundation settlement named Bochnia. It comes from the document of Monachus, the patriarch of Jerusalem, who in 1198 confirmed that Knight Mikor Gryfita presented the monastery of Bożogrobcy from Miechów with "Bochnia salt" (sal de Bochegna) (in approx. 1163-1175).
The statue of General Leopold Okulicki
The statue of General Leopold Okulicki "Niedźwiadek" is situated in the centre of a square that bears his name. It was erected in 1996 at the initiative of the Bochnia branch of the Association of Home Army Soldiers, part of a joint effort by combatant associations from the whole Poland and other countries. It was erected and...
The monument to the Katyn massacre
The unveiling of the monument took place on 13th April 2010, on the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. The basalt for the obelisk was imported from Równe in Ukraine. This locality used to be one of the most important Polish towns on the eastern frontier. In 1943 the Ukrainian police and Gestapo murdered 1864...
The monument “To the fallen for freedom 1914-1920”
The monument "To the fallen for freedom 1914-1920" is located at the junction of Regis and Oracka streets. It is called, not completely accurately, the monument of the action of the Legions (the plaques list surnames of soldiers belonging to other formations too). The history of this monument is turbulent and serves as an example...
The monument to the victims of Nazi crime from 18th December 1939
On 16th December 1939 Jarosław Zygmunt Krzyszkowski and Fryderyk Piątkowski, members of the "White Eagle", an organization deriving from the pre-war Rifleman Association, daringly attacked a German police station situated at Rynek 16. In retaliation, the Germans arrested some local people plus 29 other people from Bochnia and vicinity who had been arrested previously for minor...
The statue of Jan Kaczmarczyk “Baca”
The statue of Major "Baca" is situated in Chodenice district in the street named after him. It commemorates the major's death which took place on 5th August 1944. The hero died at the hands of German police. JAN KACZMARCZYK "Baca" (1912 - 1944) was an officer of the Polish Army and soldier of the Home Army....
The monument of the victims of holocaust
The monument is devoted to Jews from the town, and near vicinity, killed by the Nazis during World War II. It was unveiled on 26th September 2006 and is situated on a square at the intersection of Niecała, Solna Góra and Kowalska streets, close to the building in which the ghetto administration operated. The idea...
The statue of Stanisław Fischer
At the main entrance to the Bochnia's Museum one can see a statue of Stanisław Fischer, the sponsor, founder, first curator and patron of the museum, professor of lower secondary school and chronicler of the area of Bochnia. The sculpture was funded in 1997 by Bochnia's local government. He is seen holding a book ("History")...
The obelisk commemorating Marcin Samlicki
This obelisk with a plaque, funded by the town, was unveiled in 2005 in Kazimierz Brodziński street where Samlicki was killed by a car carrying Soviet soldiers. On 25th February 2005, the Town Council of Bochnia passed a resolution stating: "In connection with the 60th anniversary of the death of Bochnia's remarkable painter Marcin Samlicki,...
The monument to the victims of the peasants’ strike
A stone obelisk erected in 1957 by The United People’s Party (Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe) to commemorate the dramatic events that took place in this place on 19th August 1937. During the peasants' strike Wincenty Piechnik and Stanisław Święch were shot by the Navy-Blue Police. The monument is situated on top of a hill, where the roads to...
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