History

Czarnecki Square is situated in the Old Town, at the north-west corner of the Market Square. It was established in 1819 as a result of the parcelling out of 10 plots of land located between the streets: Żydowska, Krótka and Kościelna. The square was called Nowy Rynek (New Market) and later Plac Maślany (Butter Square). The corner house at number 9, made of brick, two-storey, with an outbuilding, was probably erected for Foma Życiński in the second quarter of the 19th century. It stood next to the inn called Under the Mother of God, because there was a painting of the Mother of God with the Child in the dormer window. In 1836, the corner plot and two adjacent plots were bought by the spouses Andrzej and Marianna Kinn. After Andrzej’s death, half of the property was inherited by Marianna Krochalska née Kinn and her children. In 1877, the property was bought by Fiszel Flattau, then by Eraz Antoni Klotze. In 1878, it had come into the ownership of Józef Socharski and ten years later - of Bolesław Bartenbach. In 1896, it became the property of Genoch Lejzor and Sura Frenkiel, who bequeathed it to their descendants. In 1924, in the southern part of the land plot, after the Frenkiel family had been expropriated, a street was laid out on the extension of Zamkowa Street. In the 1930s, the rooms on the ground floor of the house were converted into shops. After the Second World War, the premises became the property of the State Treasury, and then of the city.

Description

The building is situated in the eastern frontage of the square, in its south-eastern corner. From the north, it adjoins a one-storey residential building (the former Inn Under the Mother of God). The southern elevation is included in the frontage of Zamkowa Street. The entrance at No. 4 Zamkowa Street provides access to the yard. The western elevation of the front building is adjoined by two-storey outbuildings, placed along the boundaries of the land plot. The building is one-axial from the north and two-axial from the south.

Its features are not representative of any style.

The building was erected on a floor plan resembling a trapezoid and has two suites of rooms. A through hallway on the axis. In the hallway, there are stairs leading to the first floor and entrances to the rooms on the ground floor – two from the north and one from the south – to the apartment in the rear suite of rooms. The front entrance provides access to the shops. On the first floor, there is a small hallway with entrances to the apartments. There are similar entrances to the apartments in the attic. The building is cellared. Under the stairs in the hallway, there is a door leading to the cellars.

The house is made from ceramic bricks laid with lime and cement-lime mortar, plastered. Cellars vaulted on a segmental arch. A Klein ceiling over the ground floor. Above, there are wooden, beam ceilings, plastered, with a reed mat used as a plaster base. The wooden roof truss was assembled using rafters. The gable roof is clad with bituminous felt on a timber deck. There are three gabled dormers in each of the roof slopes. In the cellar, there is a daub floor. In the shops, there are floors made from ceramic tiles. In the apartments, there are plank floors. There are brick, one-flight stairs leading to the cellar. The stairs inside the house are wooden, two-flight, with landings based on Klein ceilings and metal beams. The stairs leading to the cellars and to the attic are made from planks or planks based on iron hinges. There is a two-wing port-fenêtre, glazed at the top, with a transom light. On the ground floor, there are contemporary, wooden and metal windows. On the first floor, there are casement and jambed windows, two-wing, with a transom light. The balcony on the first floor is based on four cast-iron, openwork, volute supports. The balcony slab is made of wood, with a balustrade made from metal bars.

The western - front elevation has two storeys and is set on a low plinth. In the plinth, there are small rectangular window openings of the cellars. The wall is smoothly plastered. Between the storeys, there is a double cornice. The prominent, profiled, lower cornice is positioned at the height of the balcony platform. The upper one is more modest, at the level of the window sills of the first floor. Under the eaves, there is a crowning cornice. Seven-axial. On the central axis and on the first axis from the south, there are entrance openings. On the other axes, there are window openings. All the window openings are rectangular, but they vary in size. On the axis on the first floor, there is a balcony and an entrance opening. The other window openings are rectangular and framed with profiled surrounds. In the northern gable wall, there are three window openings. In the southern one, there is a single window.

The eastern elevation is two-story, five-axial, set on a high plinth, with an entrance on the axis. In the plinth, there are entrances to the cellars. On the other axes, there are rectangular window openings. The elevation is flanked by two outbuildings.

The southern elevation is smoothly plastered, with one window axis from the east. From the west, there is a fragment of a narrow dividing cornice. An identical one exists above the first floor. In the gable wall, there is a rectangular window opening on the axis, between two triangular clearances.

The building can be viewed from outside.

Compiled by Agnieszka Lorenc-Karczewska, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Łódź 9 June 2020

Bibliography

• Szelągowska E., Record sheet of monuments of architecture and construction, 1997, Voivodeship Monuments Protection Office in Łódź, National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Warsaw,
• Głowacki K., Urbanistyka Piotrkowa Trybunalskiego, Piotrków Trybunalski – Kielce 1984.