A single boulder here carries a large civic thank-you to the people who made the Oder a working waterway again. This memorial, called Głaz pamiątkowy Pracowników Drogi Wodnej, was established on 24 June 1983. While you are stopped beside it, read the inscription as a roll call of skills rather than a list of officials: it honours the builders of the water route, shipyard workers, sailors, and port workers.
Their shared labour restored the Oder to Poland. The stone also makes clear who offered that tribute: the community of Wrocław. It preserves a second chapter as well.
The inscription marks June 1988, then records that the memorial was recreated in June 2011 through the efforts of the TŻŚ association and RZGW. That sequence gives this modest marker an unusually layered purpose: it commemorates the people behind navigation on the river, and it records the later decision to renew their memorial. Take a moment with the words on the stone; they turn an everyday riverside profession into the subject of public remembrance.
