Analysis of the 15th- and 16th-century building development of the western suburbs of Cracow as an example of research into the lost architecture of the town

• Authors: Krzysztof Petrus
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

In this article an attempt has been made to answer the question to what extent the use of exclusively traditional, archival research methods enables us to determine typical town-planning and architectural features of the 15th- and 16th-century residential development of the western suburbs of Cracow, including the iuridica of Garbary. After developing that historically valuable area, forming today a part of the city centre (Śródmieście) marked by Łobzowska, Dunajewskiego, Podwale, Jabłonowskich, Piłsudskiego streets and Mickiewicza i Słowackiego avenues, no material traces have remained – the old city suburbs were completely destroyed in the times of the Swedish invasion, the written sources have proved to be meagre, no iconographic sources exist, while the urban residential development erected in place of iuridica in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries does not allow us to conduct extensive archaeological research.

Keywords

PL

Garbary (Tanner’s Suburb), Cracow, suburbs, urban systems, architectural and urban development

• Publisher: [unknown2]
• Journal: Czasopismo Techniczne
• Year: -

Dates

online

2016-03-16

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Petrus