Vul. Teatralna, 10 – residential building
The building situated on Teatralna street 10 was erected between 1768-1773 in the late Baroque style with some Neo-Classicist elements; it is likely that it was designed by Piotr Połejowski. According to the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR number 970 dated 24 August 1963, the house number 10 on Teatralna street was entered in the register of local architectural monuments under protection number 367. Today it is a residential house; a hostel named "Na Teatralniy" is also located there; some ground floor premises are occupied by the watch salon "Geneva", a clothing shop and a bistro.
Architecture
The townhouse built by Roch Wieniawski had a slightly different look than it has now. In a 1843 drawing by Bartnicki, stored in the Lviv History Museum, it has three stories and a marked out central part completed with a pediment having a trophy and three semicircular windows of the mansard room. The house has a mansard roof with lucarnes, embellished with a decorative metal grating above the lucarnes, that is typical to the Baroque architecture. The façade is decorated with smooth pilasters. The ground floor semicircular windows had shutters.
Now the townhouse looks somewhat different. It has four stories and seven axes, low roof and no pediment. The façade is decorated with rusticated pilasters, its central part has an insignificantly projected avant-corps. The ground floor windows are decorated with grotesque stone male masks; the second floor windows have stucco reliefs with trophies. The building’s main accent is a Classicist portico with two pairs of columns supporting an entablature with a Dorian frieze; above the frieze, there are figures of Venus, or Minerva, and Mars lying on pedestals and symbolizing war and peace. Between the pedestals with the sculptures, there is a balcony constructed on a stone slab with a forged metal railing whose patterns resemble those of the balcony of the townhouse on the Rynor square 3, made by blacksmiths Piotr Sienkowacki and Jakób Zjajka. The female figure was made at the same time as the house itself, while the figure of Mars, according to the inscription on the muzzle of the gun, which Mars leans on, was made by sculptor Paul Eutele in 1850. The military attributes, Mars and the trophy, show that the house belonged to a person involved in military service, someone like general Wieniawski.
The townhouse’s portico, constructed in the classical order system, strongly resembles a quite similar one of the Metropolitan palace’s portico on the Svyatoyurska Hill. They were made virtually at the same time and, judging by their style, both belong to the late Baroque with some pronounced Neo-Classicist features.
Personalities
Antoni Wieniawski – a brother of Roch Wieniawski.
Antoni Miskiewicz – a Lviv guild
stonemason.
Antonina Kulchytska – Michał
Wieniawski’s widow who married Yakiv Kulchytsky.
Bartnicki – a 19th
century artist.
Brojers – a family who lived in the townhouse in
the 19th c.
Włodzimierz Podhorodecki – a Lviv architect.
Józef Dublowski (d.
1798) – a Lviv constructor.
Elżbieta Kampian, née Abramowicz –
the wife of Martin Kampian.
Ziętkiewiczs – a family who owned the Shalinska townhouse in the
first half of the 18th c.
Johann Tränkel – the owner of the
house in the 19th .
Józef Wieniawski – a brother of Roch
Wieniawski.
Kazimierz Czeczewicz – a counsellor
of the Lviv city council in 1769.
Kostiantyn Kulchytsky – a relative
of Yakiv Kulchytsky.
Martin Kampian (1574-1629) – a
doctor of medicine, the city’s burgomaster.
Mikołaj Gordon – a Lviv Magistrate
member in 1715.
Michał Wieniawski – a brother of
Roch Wieniawski.
Michał Józef Rzewuski (1699-1769) –
the voivode of Podolia and Podlachia, the great notary of the crown.
Mykhaylo Kulchytsky – a relative of
Yakiv Kulchytsky.
Paweł Wojankowski – the owner of
the Shalinska townhouse in the 17th c.
Paweł Kozłowski – a Magistrate
clerk.
Paul Eutele (1804-1889) – a Lviv
sculptor of German origin.
Paweł Szenderowicz – a Lviv guild
stonemason.
Piotr Polejowski
(1734-1776) – a Lviv architect.
Piotr Sienkowacki – a Lviv
blacksmith.
Roch Wieniawski – the
Przemysl podczaszy (deputy cup-bearer) and a general of the crown army.
Tadeusz Rutowski (1852-1918) – the
president of the city of Lviv, an official and a publicist who lived in the
townhouse.
Tränkels – a family who lived in the townhouse in
the 19th c.
Urszula Wieniawska, née Szembek –
Roch Wieniawski’s wife.
Felix (Schall) Turkiewicz – the
owner of the Shalinska townhouse in 1557.
Felix Raciborski – a count, Yakiv
Kulchytsky’s stepdaughter’s husband.
Franciszek Dewicz – the starosta
(royal official) of Radelychi.
Czeczewiczs – a family who owned the
Shalinska townhouse in the first half of the 18th c.
Jakób Zjajka – a Lviv blacksmith.
Yakiv Kulchytsky – a counsellor of the Galician Appeal
Tribunal and a member of the Stauropegion Institute who owned the townhouse at
the turn of the 19th c.
Organizations
Sources
- State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO) 2/2/5238.
- DALO 2/3/1321.
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (CDIAL) 52/2/127.
- CDIAL 52/2/367.
- Володимир Вуйцик, Державний історико-архітектурний заповідник у Львові. (Львів, 1991).
- Володимир Вуйцик, "Вулиця Театральна 10", Leopolitana ІІ, (Львів, 2013), 81-88.
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