Piłsudski Square

The Plac marsz. Józefa Piłsudski (German: Marshall Józef Piłsudski Square; since 1814 Plac Saski - Saxon Court, since 1918 Independence Square, since 1928 Plac Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego - Marshall Józef Piłsudski Square, since 1940 Adolf- Hitler-Platz, 1946 Plac Zwycięstwa - victory Square, since 1990 again Plac Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego - Marshall Józef Piłsudski Square ) is an originally baroque square in Warsaw from the early 18th century. It is part of Saxon axis.

At its western edge was up to its destruction in 1944 by the German Wehrmacht, the Saxon Palace. Nowadays, there is a fragment of the arcades, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Are located on the east side of the hotel Europejski as well as a block with rounded corners, which consists of the Dom bez Kantow and the barracks of the Warsaw garrison commander. On the south side is the Hotel Victoria since 1976. Was on the north side until the war the hotel Angielski, the Metropolitan Office Building by Norman Foster in 2003 was erected in its place. In the square was located from 1912 to 1924, the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and to its destruction in 1944, Józef Antoni Poniatowski the monument.

The square is named after Marshal Józef Piłsudski in Poland.