postcards Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/postcards/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:33:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png postcards Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/postcards/ 32 32 Lederer & Popper Photomontage Postcards of Galicia and Beyond https://forgottengalicia.com/lederer-popper-montage-postcards-of-galicia-and-beyond/ https://forgottengalicia.com/lederer-popper-montage-postcards-of-galicia-and-beyond/#comments Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:26:29 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=2665 I love looking at old photographs of Galician cities and towns, especially postcards with city views. A real treat among these are photomontages — postcard collages. I first came across montage postcards depicting Lviv and was particularly struck by the one with a woman who had fallen from her bicycle. […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/lederer-popper-montage-postcards-of-galicia-and-beyond/feed/ 1 Galicia’s Sokolnie: The Architectural Heritage of the Polish Sokół Society https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-sokolnie-the-architectural-heritage-of-the-polish-sokol-society/ https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-sokolnie-the-architectural-heritage-of-the-polish-sokol-society/#respond Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:12:00 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9602 The former buildings of the Sokół Polish Gymnastic Society stand today in the center of almost every Galician town on both sides of the Polish-Ukrainian border. Serving as sports and cultural centers, these were once significant buildings in the town space and often outstanding architectural masterpieces. Although today few of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-sokolnie-the-architectural-heritage-of-the-polish-sokol-society/feed/ 0 Austrian Military Barracks in Lviv – Part II https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/ https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:08:17 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=7902 From the End of Nineteenth Century to WWI When Galicia came under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1772, no specially built barracks or barracks complexes existed in Lviv. At first, the Austrian military used the premises of Lviv’s monasteries for magazines (ammunition storehouses) and barracks (Ger: Kaserne/Caserne; Polish: koszary; Ukr: касарні, казарми, кошари). […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/feed/ 3 Ul. Sykstuska: Doroshenka Street Before the War https://forgottengalicia.com/ul-sykstuska-doroshenka-street-before-the-war/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ul-sykstuska-doroshenka-street-before-the-war/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2020 12:38:28 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=8354 Doroshenka is today one of Lviv’s most beautiful streets, boasting many outstanding examples of architecture, especially in the styles of Neoclassicism, Historicism, Secession, and Functionalism. The street’s historic name – Sixtuskagasse / Sykstuskagasse (German) and ul. Sykstuska (Polish) – comes from the name of a famous doctor and burgomaster of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/ul-sykstuska-doroshenka-street-before-the-war/feed/ 1 Prewar Postcards of Lviv’s Union of Lublin Mound https://forgottengalicia.com/union-of-lublin-mound-on-prewar-postcards/ https://forgottengalicia.com/union-of-lublin-mound-on-prewar-postcards/#respond Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:21:44 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=8025 Today probably few people know when they climb up the High Castle (Vysokyi Zamok) in Lviv, one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations, they are walking up a monument built in the late nineteenth century to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Union of Lublin – the pact which […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/union-of-lublin-mound-on-prewar-postcards/feed/ 0 Old Postcards of Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/ https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:43:36 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5073 The small city of Przemyśl (Peremyshl in Ukrainian transliteration) now lies a few miles west of the Polish-Ukrainian border. Under the Austrian Empire, Przemyśl was one of the major Galician towns. Like nearby Lviv, the city’s population consisted of many nationalities, including Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Germans, and Czechs. According to […]

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