The voting Monument in Olsztyn was a patriotic memorial to the fate of the eleven southern districts of East Prussia in the German Reich after the referendum was designed in 1920.
Olsztyn was the seat of the German and the Inter-Allied Commission. After the vote result was clear the eleven districts of East Prussia on 18 August 1920 in Olsztyn back to the German Reich. To commemorate the historic victory in 1928 the vote monument in the city park Jakobsberg was built. The Berlin architect Walter Krueger, and John had designed it. The park was created called Georg-Zülch Square. 
With the arms of the county seats were the eleven columns of the circular memorial for the eleven Masurian voting districts. On the inside of the yoke of the password and the result of the following were noted: 'home in danger - this country will stay German "and" It's true in the southern East Prussia: 363 209 for Germany - 7980 for Poland. "
On the four sides of the altar stone in the middle was the people and country - self-determination - Unity and justice and freedom - Home.
The monument belongs to the vote monument in Marienburg and the Grunwald Monument in Hohenstein to the patriotic memorials in East Prussia between the world wars. The monument was removed in 1945 by the Polish government. In its place today in 1972 established the Polish monument "heroes in the struggle for national and social liberation in the Warmia and Mazury.
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