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Forgotten Galicia

Forgotten Galicia

Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire

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Supporting the Beauty of Facades: Lviv’s Blind Balustrades

October 31, 2020

The blind balustrade, like the blind window, is an element of architecture that has an aesthetic rather than utilitarian function. Instead of forming the protective edge of a balcony or of a change of level, blind balustrades are applied to the wall surface to add ornamentation to the façade or […]

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Wojciech Wentz Villa, built in 1907, designed by a Wojciech Wentz Villa, built in 1907, designed by architect Ludwik Weltze. The first owner was Wojciech Wentz, a police advisor. In the early 1920s, the property passed to Zygmunt Radzyminski (1843–1928), a Polish historian and renowned researcher of genealogy and heraldry. The villa’s final owner before the Soviet era was Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978), a prominent Polish philologist and linguist. From 1926 to 1946, he resided in the villa while serving as head of the departments of Indo-European linguistics and Romance philology at Lviv University.

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Last June, I took a walk through my favorite neigh Last June, I took a walk through my favorite neighborhood to show an acquaintance some of Lviv’s finest architectural gems. We stopped near the former Ludwik Heller Villa to admire and photograph the beautiful rose garden set against a backdrop of carved wooden details—a radiant sun and folk motifs inspired by the Podhale region’s mountain architecture. These elements reflect the Zakopane Style, which emerged in southern Poland but found expression across Galicia, including here in Lviv.

Little did I know that just three months later, the villa would be damaged in a russian missile attack on the city. The roof, in particular, was severely affected and had to be completely replaced.

This June, I returned to the villa once again to admire the flowers and intricate architectural details—camera in hand, as before. But the experience is now different. Though the windows have been replaced, and the roof is undergoing restoration, the neighborhood no longer feels quite the same to me.

Soundtrack: The English folk song "Bonny Bunch of Roses," which recalls the time "Moscow was blazing" during Napoleon’s invasion—an image we are eager to see repeated.

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Golden hour | Lviv center | Constitution Day | Jun Golden hour | Lviv center | Constitution Day | June 28

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Facade fragment of the former Credit Land Society Facade fragment of the former Credit Land Society building (1912–1914), designed by Alfred Zachariewicz and Józef Sosnowski. Red granite from J. L. Urban & Co. Ołomuniec (Polish) / Olomouc (Czech) / Olmütz (German).

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