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Address Naberezhne Hwy, 8, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000 Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hours Similar Monument to Princess Olga, Yaroslav the Wise Monument, Saint Vladimir Monument, Fountain of Samson - Kiev, Pamyatnik kotu Panteleymonu | ||
Monument to the Magdeburg Rights (Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Маґдебурзькому праву) is a monument in Podil Raion, Kiev located at foothills of the former Mykhailo Hill right next to the Shore Highway. It is traditionally considered to be the oldest city's monument.
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Names
Among other names there are the Column of the Magdeburg Rights, the Baptizing of Ruthenia Monument, the Lower Monument of the Saint Volodymyr.
History
The monument was erected in 1802 to commemorate return to the city its Magdeburg rights which were first granted back in the 15th century by Alexander Jagiellon. That event the city's residents celebrated for three days with illumination and dance and later collected 10,000 rubles for construction of a chapel and a monument with fountain. The monument's author was a famous Kiev architect Andrey Melensky. The brick pavilion over a spring was consecrated on August 15, 1802.
Since 1804 the Metropolitan Serapion started crucessions to the monument for blessing of water.