This monument on Łukasiewicz Square - not far from the former Grobla Gasworks - remembers a time when Poznań, and most cities in Europe for that matter, were illuminated by gas lamps. Lamplighters like the fictional Zyga (short for Zygmunt in the local dialect) were a common sight in Poznań in the late-19th and early-20th century, lighting and extinguishing the city's streetlamps at dusk and dawn. Next to the lifesize bronze sculpture is the last surviving gaslamp in Poznań - moved here from ul. Słowackiego in Jeżyce, where it operated until the 1970s. This historic streetlamp is still illuminated each night, not by a lamplighter, but automatically by the municipal gas company. The lamp and its attendant - designed by sculptor Robert Sobociński - were unveiled here in 2003. In addition to a playground, the park also has a bench with a seated sculpture of Polish chemist and pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz holding his revolutionary invention, the kerosene lamp.
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