Prince Roman Street (Lviv)

• Pottery - a name the mention of which dates back to 1505 . Probably related to the potters living and living in the area.
• The Galician suburb is the name of the end of the 18th century . It comes from the name of the suburb surrounded by the walls of Lviv.
• Galitskaya - a name since 1871. During this period, the street was considered a continuation of the Galician street . By that time they had been practically united for about a hundred years.
• Stefan Batory - 1885. This year, the street was separated from Galitsky under a new name in honor of the Polish king Stefan Batory .
• Sverdlov - so named in December 1940 in honor of the Russian revolutionary Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov .
• Batory - August 1941.
• Wehrmachtstrasse - November 1941.
• Bathory - June 1944.
• Vatutin - a name since 1944, in honor of Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin - Soviet military commander.
• Prince Roman - a modern name since 1992 in honor of the founder of the Galicia-Volyn principality Roman Mstislavich

No. 1, 3 . Initially, this place was a Carmelite monastery shod with the Church of St. Leonard. Part of this territory was occupied by a private residential building. In the mid-1870s, the house was rebuilt according to the project of Julian Zakharevich and the Regional District Court was located in it ^[1] . The building stood for only 15 years, after which it was dismantled along with the remains of the monastery and in 1891-1895 a significant monumental court building was built in the Neo-Renaissance style with elements of classicism. The project of Francis Skovron , decoration of the facades of Jan Zaveiski . The central risalit is crowned by the sculptural group “Justice” (now damaged), made in 1893 by Leonard Marconi . In 1897, Marconi, with the help of Anton Popel , supplemented the side facade of the Galician Square with two non-barred statues “Justice” and “Legislation” (not preserved). Now it is one of the buildings of the Lviv Polytechnic ^[2] .

Number 4 . Art Nouveau apartment building with elements of neoclassicism. It was built in 1912-1913 according to the project of Stanislav Bardzky executed in the bureau of Adolf Piller ^[3] .

Number 5 . The three-story neo- Renaissance building of the former gymnasium No. 3 named after Franz Joseph I (after 1918 - named after Stephen Batory). It was built in 1876 on the corner with the current Shukhevych street according to the design of Juliusz Hochberger . The central risalit is decorated with six sculptures of prominent figures of Polish culture and science: N. Copernicus , A. Snyadetsky , A. Mitskevich , T. Chatsky , Y.-M. Ossolinsky , J. Dlugosh . The sculptor is Tadeusz Baronch . Today, the Research Institute of the Lviv Polytechnic is located here ^[4] .

Number 6 . It was built in 1912-1914 according to the project of Adolf Piller and Roman Volpel as a tenement house commissioned by merchants Karol Chudzak and Ludwik Stadtmüller. In the 1920s, there was the "Bank of the Polish Land", and since 1929 - a radio station. The house combines the features of Art Nouveau (the German version of Art Nouveau) and stylized Romanesque-Gothic elements. Sculptures of knights supporting bay windows, and a bas-relief with a lion above the triple portal were made in 1912-1913 by Stanislav-Ryszard Plichal ^[5] .

No. 12/14 . The former hotel "Austria", built in 1900-1901 according to the design of August Bogokhvalsky in the neo-baroque style with elements of secession ^[6] .

Number 24 . The house is in the style of classicism, built around 1829-1830, probably according to the design of Frederic Bauman or Ignatius Hambrez . The author of the sculptural decoration is John Schimzer ^[7] .

Number 26 . Initially, the home of the French oil company Premier. The construction was completed in 1924 according to the project of Julian Tsibulsky from 1914. The plans and facade were modified by Ferdinand Kasler. The house, and especially the top floor, attracts attention with the sculptural decoration of an unknown author ^[8] .

Number 30 . The secession building of the former shelter of Viktor Burlyard on the corner with Nizhankovsky street (second address - Nizhankovsky street 2/4). Built by the project of Tadeusz Obminsky in 1908. Now there is the School of Culture and Arts ^[9] .

Number 34 . Residential building, built in 1912 according to the project of Stanislav Uleisy and Jozef Piontkovsky ^[10] .

Number 36 . The predecessor of the existing house was the Benedict Krinitsky Inn, built around 1800-1810 ^[11] .

Number 38 . The former house of Kshizhanovsky. Here lived the Polish writer Jan Lam ^[12] .

Epiphany Church

The first documented mention of the church since 1386. Since 1546, the oldest church school in Lviv existed at the church. In 1711 it was rebuilt (the previous one to be destroyed during hostilities). In 1800 it was closed, the building was sold together with the site. During construction work in 1875 and 1926, the remains of a church cemetery and Cossack graves from the siege of Lviv in 1648 were found. The church was located approximately at the site of the square on the even side of the street, near the intersection with Franco and Herzen streets. Throughout its existence, the church was wooden ^[13] .

Church of St. Leonard and the Carmelite Monastery Shod

The Baroque church, with a monastery, built in 1724 on the site of the former one, which came from the beginning of the 17th century. The monastery was closed during the Josephine Cassation of 1784. Transformed first into a factory, and then into a prison. In the years 1875-1878 in t. "Carmelite Prison" was the arrested Ivan Franko . The complex of buildings until 1889 was dismantled for the construction of the building of the Higher Regional Court (house No. 1/3). Before disassembling, measurements were made that now allow to make up a certain idea of ​​the lost structure ^[14] .

Pavlovsky Palace

Built in the early 1770s, probably in the style of early classicism, designed by Joseph Seidel for Joseph Samuel Pavlovsky. The construction was carried out by the builder Francis Kulchytsky and Anton Kosinsky . The palace was opposite the Carmelite monastery ^[15] .

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• Prince Roman Street on the Yandex.Panorama service.