The decision to build the Bismarck monument in Wrocław was made in 1898, shortly after the chancellor's death. The monument cost 120,000
marks . The designers and creators were: prof.
Peter Breuer (builder of the statue) and
Robert Hankow (maker of the pedestal) from
Berlin .
Opposite the monument, on the other side of the then Royal Square (German:
Königsplatz )), the Bismarck Fountain (German:
Bismarck-Brunnen ) was built in 1905 , later
the Allegory of Struggle and Victory Fountain . At the end of
World War II, the statue of Bismarck was dismantled and hidden. In 1947, a German gardener from the Biskupin district who was leaving for
Germany offered to sell it as scrap. It was bought by a Polish journalist from Wrocław,
Leszek Goliński, for PLN 1,000. The statue was finally melted down and the pedestal was dismantled
[1] .
An underground passage was built in its place . The Bismarck Fountain was restored in 1955.
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