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Zacherlowska townhouse - Zabytek.pl

Zacherlowska townhouse


tenement house 14th c. Kraków

Address
Kraków, Rynek Główny 42

Location
woj. małopolskie, pow. Kraków, gm. Kraków

A house near Kraków’s main market square of particular importance for Polish culture.

It house the studio of the famous photographer Ignacy Krieger; Feliks Jasieński resided in the second floor and kept his collection here.

History

A brick building was built here in the early 15th century. The brick framework of the entrance gate in the rear façade has been preserved to this day. This is part of the so-called rear bay erected at the turn of the 14th century. Its construction was possible after purchasing some section of the adjacent plot. For most part of the 16th century, the house was held by the Boner family. At at the beginning of the century, they rebuilt it into a magnificent residence. The partially preserved interior layout, a part of the ceiling of the so-called rear room, and portals on the ground and first floor come from that period. The Boners made their name as excellent managers, bankers, and art sponsors. In recognition of their services to the royal court, King Sigismung the Old ennobled Jan Boner in 1514. After 1640 another renovation was carried out, the second floor was added, and a side annexe with a chapel was built. The rooms were connected by a staircase in the front building. Its historical look was immortalised by Jan Matejko’s and Wojciech Gerson’s drawings. In the second half of the 17th century, after destruction during the Polish-Swedish War, the front building was extended vertically by the second floor and a one-storey side annexe was added. Throughout the 17th century, the house was owned by the Zacherla family from Tyrol. The councillor Jan Gaudenty Zacherla supervised the preparation of the celebration of the victory at Vienna (1683), in which King John III Sobieski participated himself. Another renovation fell to the first quarter of the 18th century. In 1836 the front façade was altered. In the years 1864-1926, the house was the studio of Ignacy Krieger, one of the best Galician photographers, moved from ul. Grodzka. At the end of the 19th century, the house was purchased by the Pareński family. They commissioned the vertical extension by a third floor and the renovation of the façade. The works were carried out in 1878 according to the design by the architect Karol Borkowski operating in Vienna. The existing staircase was built, at the same time demolishing the 16th-century one. The Gothic and Renaissance stone window frames were also damaged, just like a decorative medallion with the image of King Sigismund the Old. Anything that survived was removed during subsequent upgrades in 1914, 1930 and 1941. The Pareńskis first lived in a house at the corner of Rynek Główny and ul. św. Jana and then in a palace at ul. Wielopole. Their home was one of the centres of Kraków’s social life at the turn of the century.  In the years 1903-1929, the building was inhabited by the art critic and famous collector Feliks Jasieński nicknamed Manggha. His collections, including European engravings and ceramics, fabric from Europe and the Far East, numerous antiques and magnificent Japanese items, inspired the key artists of the Young Poland artistic movement. In 1920 he donated his collection to the National Museum. The last major alterations in the building were done in 1975 and around 2006. After 2006 a great renovation project of the building began, intended to adapt it to the hotel function. Today, a hotel with the pretentious name of The Bonerowski Palace operates in the edifice.

Description

A harmonious, three-wing edifice with neo-Renaissance façades. The whole property has an eclectic and historicist character. One of the most valuable details is the first-floor column or Gothic-carved pillar. A significant discovery was the exposure of fragments of the 17th-century wall painting of rural scenes in the second floor. It is one of the most valuable monument of this type preserved in this part of Europe. During the 2006 renovation, a neo-Renaissance sgraffito in the third floor level of the façade was recreated.

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

Bibliography

  • Dyba O., Kraków. Zabytki architektury i budownictwa, Warszawa 2007
  • Encyklopedia Krakowa, Warszawa – Kraków 2000.
  • Fabiański M., Purchla J., Historia architektury Krakowa w zarysie, Kraków 2001
  • Komorowski W., Sudacka A., Rynek Główny w Krakowie, Ossolineum 2008
  • Rożek M., Przewodnik po zabytkach i kulturze Krakowa, Kraków 1993
  • Marcinek R., Kraków, Kraków 2001

Category: tenement house

Architecture: nieznana

Building material:  brick

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_12_BK.199204, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_12_BK.426423