History

A first brick building was erected at the turn of the 14th century. Designed on a square plan, it was one of the largest edifices in the market square. At that time, annexes were also built: the side and rear one. In the following centuries, they were gradually expanded and altered in line with the upgrades of the entire complex. In 1537 Leonard Fogelweder sold the house to Mikołaj Koźlin who sold it to Jan Krupek (1559) and Jerzy Schullkraft. Before 1592 the house was in the hands of Marcin Fichauser (Schullkraft’s son-in-law). When the house belonged to the Fischhausers, it was rebuilt into a high-class residence, and the roof was covered with copper sheet. It was particularly extravagant but the renowned goldsmiths and owners of the Olkusz ironworks could afford it. Other owners had to make do with cheap and flammable shingles. Devastated during the Swedish occupation of the city, it remained a ruin for a long time; it was not renovated until the beginning of the 18th century. The cooper roofing had long gone. A major reconstruction stage followed in the 1740s (the preserved stucco decorations by Baltazar Fontana) and the 1780s. The house was owned by the Wolfowicz (purchased by Jakub Wolfowicz) and the Lipnicki families. After Józef Lipnicki (1792), the “house without tin” was held by Stanisław Milkuszyc and in 1814 by his son Szymon; it remained with the family until the end of the 19th century. Another conversion took place around 1820, and in the 1830s a balcony with iron railings, a fashionable solution at that time, was added at the front. It was removed from the façade in 1871 along the neo-Baroque transformation designed by the Viennese Theophil von Hansen. The iron balcony was replaced with a stone porch above the entrance. Further renovations fell to 1932, 1949 and the period 1953-1954. Today, the building houses the popular Vis-à-vis bar establishment and the Institute of Journalism of the Jagiellonian University.

Description

A three-storey, five-axis house with an elaborate, neo-Baroque façade. It has a habitable loft. A stone porch above the entrance to the vaulted vestibule located on the building’s axis. Inside, a set of Gothic portals has survived. After 1942, the house’s garden was combined with the garden of house no. 30, and a modest flower bedding was made. In 1984 the two lots were separated by a wall with a gate. In front of the house, there is a bronze effigy of Piotr Skrzynecki.

The site is partly available: freely from the outside but inside only during the working hours of the stores and institutions.

Author of the note Roman Marcinek, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Kraków 20/04/2016

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