Just west of the lighthouse, a tall obelisk on the seafront commemorates the Zaślubiny z Morzem — the "wedding to the sea" — performed by Polish soldiers in March 1945 after the capture of Kołobrzeg from German forces. It was a deliberately symbolic act: by tossing a ring into the Baltic, the army marked Poland's recovery of a coast that it had effectively lost in the eighteenth-century partitions.
The current monument was put up in 1965 and remains a focus for military and patriotic ceremonies. It is worth visiting both for its own sake and for the view east along the seafront promenade.