"Plac Hutników” (Square of Steelworkers) is one of the Chorzów squares, where there is a statue of Friedrich Wilhelm Count von Reden, the Prussian minister of mining, a person of oustanding merit for the economy of the Prussian state, and regarded as the "father of Upper Silesian industry." This monument itself, by many considered to be controversial (as is the figure of the count himself) has very interesting history. The statue in Chorzów after being demolished was erected three times - by the Prussian government in 1853, by the Nazi authorities in 1940, and finally by the Polish authorities in 2006.
