Vul. Doroshenka, 16 – residential building ID: 718

This residential building is part of the street's perimeter development, constructed in 1890's. The architect is unknown. The renowned Jewish artist Wilhelm Wachtel lived in this house between 1910 and 1912.

Architecture

Constructed in the style of Historicism, it is a three-story, brick, and plastered structure with a rectangular plan. The interior layout is of the enfilade type. The composition of the principal elevation elevation is symmetrical, featuring a centrally located entrance portal with a profiled surround, topped by a balcony with wrought iron railings on plasterwork brackets. The first and second floors are decorated with banded rustication. The first-floor windows are storefront windows. The windows on the second and third floors feature profiled trimmings; on the second floor, they are topped by triangular pediments with plasterwork cartouches in the center, while the third-floor windows have linear pediments decorated with mascarons in the form of lion heads in place of keystones. The central window of the second floor is emphasized by a segmental pediment. Beneath the second-floor windows are insets featuring diamond rustication, adorned on the sides with rosettes and shelves in the form of volutes; the third-floor windows feature similar shelves. Insets with diamond rustication are also placed between the attic windows. The building is crowned by a plasterwork cornice with brackets and an egg-and-dart belt.

Related buildings and spaces

Vul. Doroshenka
Petra Doroshenka Street lies between Svobody Boulevard and Bandery Street. Its previous names were: Sykstuska (or Sixtuska Gasse up to 1938), Obrony Lwowa (1938-1940), Sykstusstrasse (1941-1944), and Zhovtneva (1940, 1944-1992). This street arose in place of a road that once led from the medieval city walls to the estate of Erasm Sikst/Erazm Sykst, mayor of Lviv in the early seventeenth century and famous medical doctor. In the early twentieth century, the Historicist rental houses were partly replaced by Jugendstil buildings, and later Constructivist ones. 1894 saw an electric tram line being laid in the lower part of the street, leading from the Central Train Station to the Hetmanski Bulwarks, where it forked, leading to the Galician County Fair in Sofijówka, and through the Rynok Square to Lychakiv/Łyczaków. In November 1918 bitter fighting went on for the building of the Main Post Office between Ukrainian and Polish troops.
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Vul. Doroshenka

People

Franz Doppler — austrian composer, flutist, conductor, and teacher. He authored 6 operas, 15 ballets, overtures, cantatas, chamber-instrumental and concert compositions, transcriptions, arrangements, and orchestrations. Born on October 16, 1821, in Lemberg (Ger. Lemberg, today Lviv) — died on July 27, 1883, in Baden, near Vienna. The Doppler brothers spent their childhood in the previous house at this address.
Karl Doppler — composer, flutist, conductor, and music teacher. Born on September 12, 1825, in Lemberg — died on March 10, 1900, in Stuttgart. The Doppler brothers spent their childhood in the previous house on this site.

Sources

Державний архів Львівської області (ДАЛО) 2/1/3736
Lwów. Ilustrowany przewodnik (Lwów: Centrum Europy – Wrocław: Via Nova, 2001), 106.

Citation

Khrystyna Kharchuk. "Vul. Doroshenka, 16 – residential building". Lviv Interactive (Center for Urban History). URL: https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/doroshenka-16/

Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

Language editor: Uliana Holovata