Poltavamonumentet

The Polish Poltavamonument “Svea and the Fallen Caroline.” The group is created by the artist Theodor Lundberg (1852-1926) in 1902 and was consecrated at Artillerigården on 6 November 1904 by Oscar II. The monument initiated by Major Claes Grill was originally intended to honour the Carolines that had plunged into the Battle of Poltava but came to be a memorial of all the disfigured Swedish soldiers of all time, a kind of “The Unknown Soldiers Monument.” The group was first placed on Artillerigården’s middle, but in the 1950s it was moved to a more obscure place under the chestnut trees at Tyghusets west. The sculpture group is made up of Mother Svea who, with a wreath in his hand (with the inscription: Svecia memor - Sweden’s memory), watches over a plunged carolin in half hidden by a Swedish fana. On the parish of the sculpture- group is the inscription Filiis pro patria occisis - Eight sons fallen for the fosterland. Plaster cast of the monument is in Skansen Kronan in Gothenburg. PUBL