Vul. Vitovskoho site – former swimming pool

The first outside swimming pool in Lviv at the military swimming school was officially opened in 1820 on Pelczynski pond by the general of Austrian Cavalry Johann Karl Fresnel-Curel von Henneguin (Barański, b/d, 108; Jaworski, 97; Lwów, 2001, 160-161). In addition to the military, the school also accepted civilians to exercise swimming. The building of the military bathing place was built in 1821 on the eastern boundary of the pond, by an architect Wilhelm Schmidt according to the plans of von Hennguin (Jaworski, b/d, 97). Later, a civilian bathing place was built at Pelczynski pond, not far from the military basin. As it can be seen on the photograph of the end of the 19^th c. – beginning of the 20^th c., it was a two-storey framework building with one-storey annexes on the sides. According to the archive documents, the project of a stone toilet at Pelczynski pond was approved by the magistrate on August, 7, 1858 (CDIAL 742/1/1564:1).

Pelchynski pond is marked on maps and plans of 18^th-19^th c. Lviv, on the site along the present streets of Vitovskoho until the point it crossed Sakharova street. In the 1920s, the nearby locality was called Pelczynski park and covered the area of ca 10 hectares. Several park paths leading to a former Cadet school (presently — a Military Academy, vul. Hvardiyska, 42) picturesquely fit into the hilly landscape. Later, the course of ul. Pelczynska (presently vul. Vitovskoho) was straightened, unlike previously, when it ran round the pond. In 1972, on the site that used to place tennis courts and a skating rink in the 1930s, a sports hall and an inside swimming pool "Dynamo" were built, according to the design by an architect Myron Vendzylovych (Lwów, 2001, 174).

In 1921, Pelczynski pond was filled in due to unsatisfactory sanitary condition (Orłowicz, 1925, 136; Lwów, 2001, 161). The building of the bathing place was dismantled in the same time.