Marianske Lazne, as any Czech city living through tourism, is proud of the renowned personalities who have chosen to stay, been here many times and recommend to your friends. Here there were monarchs and writers, musicians and conductors, poets and literary critics, actors and politicians. Loved Marianske Lazne and the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He always stayed in the guest house, which is now made into a Museum. The memory of the visits Goethe in Marianske Lazne are fixed not only on the informational boards. My love and thanks to the famous German locals expressed by installing on the territory of the city has several monuments. One of them is on Getelem square (Gateway area).

The first monument on the site was opened in 1932, when the whole world remembered Goethe's because it was the 100th anniversary of his death. The sculpture is the author of "Faust" was created by the architect Willy Russ. However, this monument has withstood the horrors of the second world war. It was destroyed during the fighting, and the city for a long time without him. Only the stone with a commemorative plaque was announced to all curious that earlier on this very spot was a sculpture depicting a pensive Goethe, seated on a bronze bench.

At the end of XX century, the city's office had raised the issue of the restoration of the monument to the great poet in the same place. Was a competition among sculptors. As the future Creator of the sculptural composition was chosen Vítězslav Abel. In 1993, Gateway square reappeared bench at any time you can see the old, but such a recognizable poet, recreated in bronze.