Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden monument, Bronze statue on Plac Hutników, Chorzów, Poland.

The Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden monument is a bronze statue on a light grey marble pedestal at Plac Hutników, near the Rynek in Chorzów. The figure wears a mining uniform, rests his left hand on an unfolded map, his right on a miner's pick, and a lump of ore lies under his right foot. The statue is about 3.1 m tall and weighs around 750 kg.

The monument was first created in 1853 to honor a key figure who advanced mining and metallurgy in Upper Silesia during the late 1700s. The statue marks the region's transformation through industrial innovation and technical improvements of that era.

The monument's base carries the German inscription giving Reden's dates, 23 March 1752 and 3 July 1815. Its return to Plac Hutników in 2002 drew objections from the Institute of National Remembrance and from the Confederation of Independent Poland, and in 2017 Adam Słomka asked for its removal. The original head, found in a Chorzów cellar, is shown at the Museum of Metallurgy.

The monument stands on Plac Hutników, next to the Market Square, not on the square itself. The square and the area around the monument were renovated between 2018 and 2020, and a brine graduation tower now stands beside it. The original head of the statue, found in a cellar in Chorzów, has been shown at the Museum of Metallurgy since 2021.

The statue has been destroyed and rebuilt several times, with the current version recreated in 2002 following the original 1853 design. This reconstruction reflects how central this memorial is to the city's identity and memory of its past.