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Photographs of the Lemberg-Czernowitz Railway (1868)

Areta — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:44:30 +0000

The railway first came to Lviv (Lemberg) in 1861, connecting the city to Przemyśl as part of the connection from Krakow. In 1866 a railway was built connecting Lviv to Chernivtsi (Czernowitz). As a result, the capitals of two Austro-Hungarian crownlands Galicia and Bukovina were connected not only to each other, […]

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Prewar Manhole Covers in Chernivtsi

Areta — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:20:19 +0000

In Chernivtsi I found manhole covers from Austrian (pre-WWI) and Romanian (interwar) times. I saw both German-language and Romanian-language ones. The Austrian-era ones use the German name for the city, Czernowitz. The ones made by Pittel & Brausewetter company include Wien (Vienna). This company was founded in 1870 in Bratislava […]

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Chernivtsi’s Boot Scrapers

Areta — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:09:57 +0000

Chernivtsi has quite a few boot scrapers. This last one is located right in front of a guard stone

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Antique Tiles in Chernivtsi

Areta — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:36:51 +0000

In Chernivtsi I saw a few tiles with the inscription “Leon Schrenzel Czernowitz.” Overall, I saw the name of only one company that manufactured tiles. Leon Schrenzel’s building materials company was founded in 1887 – a time when Chernivtsi would have been part of the Austrian Empire.

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Antique Roller Shutters in Chernivtsi

Areta — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:34:19 +0000

Chernivtsi has quite a few Austrian- and Romanian-era metal roller shutters. Like in Lviv, some inscriptions include the company’s address (i.e., J. Engel Cernauţi Strada Wilson 7, which is Romanian for J. Engel Chernivtsi 7 Wilson Street). Lviv has this same Prague-made shutter

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Chernivtsi’s Ghost Signs

Areta — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:02:22 +0000

Chernivtsi / Cernăuți / Czernowitz, located in south-western Ukraine near Romania, was a multicultural city that at various times had large populations of Romanians, Jews, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles, Russians, and Roma. Chernivtsi was the capital of the Bukovina region of the Austrian Empire. In 1918, it was annexed by the […]

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