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tenement house, residential building - Zabytek.pl

tenement house, residential building


tenement house Opole

Address
Opole, Ks. Konstantego Damrota 8

Location
woj. opolskie, pow. Opole, gm. Opole

The tenement house is one of the characteristic buildings in the centre of Opole.It has retained its original plan, mass, composition and architectural detail.

History of the structure

The building was erected around the year 1910. In the 1920s, the building was owned by Oton Johann, a master mason who probably rented apartments to officials from the nearby Reichsbank, court clerks and teachers from the nearby - renowned - Girls’ College, which had its seat at the present Daszyńskiego Square.

The building was not destroyed during World War II. After the war ended, it became the property of the State Treasury and functioned as a residential and service building, in which various law firms had their seats. In 2002 the tenement house was entered in the register of historic monuments of the Opolskie Voivodeship.

Description of the structure

The tenement house is located in the centre of Opole within a compact development of the southern frontage of Damrota Street. It is located a short distance from Daszyńskiego Square, south of the Market Square and north-east of the railway station. Maintained in post-Art Nouveau style with eclectic elements, the building was erected on a rectangular floor plan, elongated along the east-west axis.

It is a brick and plastered building characterized by a compact body with slightly protruding avant-corpses in the extreme axes of the front elevation with balcony loggias. It is a cellared, four-storey building with a partially usable attic, covered with a gable roof with eyelid dormer windows. The northern (front) elevation is 8-axial, symmetrical, articulated with a separate pedestal zone, above which rustication is embedded in the plaster in a strip pattern. The level of the first storey is closed by a frieze decorated with a meander motif, supported by pilasters dividing the upper storeys. The axes are marked by rectangular two- and three-panel window openings. The main entrance is located in the central axis; to the left of it, in the basement of the western avant-corps, there is a passage gate closed with a three-centred arch. The characteristic decorative elements of the elevation include: panels under the windows forming the framework of a stylized cymatium at the level of the third and fourth storey, and convex brick balustrades decorated with festoons and cabochons. The level of the first storey is also accentuated, where the pattern of bumps was added to the rectangular panels under the windows.

Inside the building, there are segmental vaults (the basement), flat wooden vaults on joists in the living quarters, and Klein vaults (the entrance gate).

Visitor access: used, inhabited, accessible

Author: Joanna Banik, Katarzyna Latocha, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Opole, 19.07.2018

Bibliography

  • Borkowski M., Opole przełomu wieków XIX/XX, Łódź 2015.
  • Hamada A., Architektura Opola wpisana w dzieje miasta, Opole 2008.
  • Studium historyczno-urbanistyczne miasta Opola, Katalog zabytków – Opole Wschód, PKZ Wrocław 1990 [in:] resources of the Voivodeship Heritage Protection Office in Opole.
  • Karta ewidencyjna zabytków architektury i budownictwa: budynek banku, ul. Damrota 8 w Opolu, compiled by K. Bodanko, 2002 [in:] resources of the Voivodeship Heritage Protection Office in Opole.

Category: tenement house

Architecture: Eclecticism

Building material:  brick

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_16_BK.27192, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_16_BK.24148