The Beetle Monuments (

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: ''Pomniki chrząszcza'') are two similar monuments in

Szczebrzeszyn Szczebrzeszyn (; ; ) is a city in southeastern Poland in Lublin Voivodeship, in Zamość County, about west of Zamość. From 1975–1999, it was part of the Zamość Voivodeship administrative district. The town serves as the seat to the Gmina ...

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, statues of an amphomorphic

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wearing a

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and a

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, and playing on a

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. The monuments allude to the

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poem ''

Chrząszcz Chrząszcz (''beetle, Chafer beetle, chafer'') by Jan Brzechwa is a Tongue twister, tongue-twister poem famous for being considered one of the hardest-to-pronounce texts in Polish literature. It may cause problems even for adult, native Polish lang ...

'' by

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'' order (

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or a

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), rather than a beetle, a subject of a trick question at the game show '' Milionerzy'' (a Polish version of ''

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'') .

First monument

Szczebrzeszyn Beetle Wooden Monument 2018 P01

In September 2002, at Klukowskiego Street in

, at the foot of the Castle Hill, a statue was unveiled of an amphomorphic

playing on a

. It is made from linden wood and placed on a stone pedestal. It has a height of 3 m and width of 1 m. It was created by students of the

Zamość Zamość (; ; ) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021. Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski ...

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of Arts under the supervision of professor Zygmunt Jarmuł. It is located near the Street by the source of a

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flowing to the nearby

Wieprz The Wieprz (, ; ) is a river in central-eastern Poland, and a tributary of the Vistula. It is the country's ninth longest river, with a total length of 349 km and a catchment area of 10,497 km2, all within Poland. Its course near the to ...

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Second monument

Since wood is a perishable material, the city of Szczebrzeszyn commissioned Zygmunt Jarmuł to create a more durable statue of a beetle. It was unveiled by the Szczebrzeszyn ''

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'' (town hall) at the

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(part of the Kościuszko Square) on 23 July 2011. It consists of a

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statue of an

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beetle wearing a

and a

, and playing on a

. It has a height of about 2 m. It was 70% funded by the EU withiun the project "Z kulturalną wizytą w chrząszczowym grodzie" ("On a cultural visit to the beetle town").

References

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