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“Owanisowiczowska” burgher townhouse, “Jakubowiczowska” - Zabytek.pl

“Owanisowiczowska” burgher townhouse, “Jakubowiczowska”


tenement house Zamość

Address
Zamość, Rynek Wielki 10

Location
woj. lubelskie, pow. Zamość, gm. Zamość

A unique example of bourgeois architecture from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.The townhouse is situated in the central part of Zamość – at the Great Market Square.

Its noteworthy features include well-preserved three rectangular stone portals in the central hall, an arcaded entrance portal, decorations of the vault of the central hall, two back rooms and arcades in the form of: stucco plaques and medallions with eagle motifs, rosettes, winged heads and religious monograms. In one of the rooms on the ground floor, there is a preserved and historically valuable wooden ceiling. There are also interesting Renaissance window surrounds there.

History

The townhouse was built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, initially as a one-storey building. At that time, it was owned by M. Jakubowicz, a wealthy Armenian merchant. From the 1st quarter of the 17th century to the 1st quarter of the 18th century, it belonged to the Owanisowicz family. In the 2nd quarter of the 17th century, the first floor was added and in the 3rd quarter of the 17th century, it was remodelled. From 1783 to the middle of the 19th century, it belonged to the Koziołkiewicz family. Between 1783 and 1809, the attics were removed and the second floor was added. Until 1970s, it was owned by the Żmind family. The first major renovation of the building took place in 1937-38 under the supervision of T. Zaremba. The building was renovated again in 1957, when the exterior walls were re-plastered and the roof and the window and door woodwork were refurbished. Between 1967 and 1972, the house was restored according to J. Grudziński’s design. Among other things, iron-concrete ceilings were laid, the elevations were renovated, the roof truss and the roof cladding were replaced. In 1999, the façade was renovated. In 2003, the window woodwork was replaced. In 2004, repairs of the arcade were carried out.

Description

The townhouse is situated in the central part of the Old Town, in the south-eastern corner of the northern block at the eastern frontage of the Great Market Square. Oriented, with its market-facing façade oriented westward. The side elevation faces towards the south. The townhouse was built on an elongated rectangular floor plan with a three-section arcade on the ground floor. It consists of three parts, with a narrow hallway on the axis. In the northern section, there are three rooms, accessible from the hallway. The southern suite comprises a chamber and a staircase. The original interior layout on all upper floors was subsequently modified slightly, because the house was divided into several flats. The townhouse is made of bricks and coated with plaster. It has three storeys and cellars and is covered with a two-hipped roof covered with sheet metal. The elevations have three storeys. The front one is three-axial and the side one - five-axial. One the ground floor of the façade, there is a three-section arcade. The arches of arcades are semi-circular, with massive impost cornices at the base and two brick buttresses attached to the pillars supporting the corner span. The wall closing the arcade is three-axial, positioned on the central axis with a stone portal topped with a semi-circular arch, flanked by two window openings, surmounted by wide sandstone window surrounds with panels. These in turn are supported by massive stone parapets.

The window openings are topped with profiled section cornices, with ocului above.  An arcaded entrance portal is placed in the arcade with a triangular top and a grooved frieze. There is also a left-side jamb with Renaissance ornamentation, which comes from the previously dismantled portal. Above the archivolt closing the entrance portal, there is a triangular stone pediment surmounted with cornices. The lower cornice is supported by a decorative frieze. The vault of the arcade is adorned with decorative plasterwork containing medallions. The medallions incorporate putti heads, eagle emblems, rosettes and Christograms. The ground floor is separated from the upper floors by two cornices with a smooth wall in-between. Rectangular windows on the first floor are surmounted by profiled window surrounds resting on a cordon cornice. Above them, there are stone sectional cornices with corbels. One section of the 2nd floor is separated by a thin, slightly profiled cordon cornice, with three rectangular windows on the axes of the 1st floor. The windows are flanked by double pilasters decorated with herms. The combined capitals of the pilasters turn into a cornice in the parts above the windows. The whole is topped with a prominent and richly profiled cornice.

The south-facing side elevation is four-axial and asymmetrical in the ground floor storey. On the ground floor, there are three window openings with preserved elements of stonework, as well as two window openings of the cellars. The first floor is delineated by two cornices. Above the cornices, there are four rectangular windows and a rectangular blind window. The openings and the blind window in all axes are articulated by window surrounds, above which there are profiled window cornices with the motif of an ox-eye window. In the third storey, delineated by a cordon cornice, the window openings and the blind window are aligned with the windows of the first floor. Between the windows, there are pilasters decorated with herms. The second and third storeys of the façade of the townhouse are painted gray-green, the ground floor is painted grey and the arcade is painted white. The cellar is covered with a barrel vault. The ground floor is covered with cross vaults with lunettes. In the upper storey rooms, there are flat, contemporary ceilings. In the hall, three rectangular stone portals have been preserved, as well as decorations of the vaulted central hallway and of two chambers at the back. In one of the rooms on the ground floor, there is a preserved and historically valuable wooden ceiling.

Access to the site is limited

compiled by Ewa Prusicka, Regional Branch Office of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Lublin, 22 November 2016

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  • Record sheet, “Owanisowiczowska” townhouse (...). Zamość, compiled by J. Serafinowicz, B. Seniuk, 1997, Archives of the Voivodeship Office for the Protection of Historic Monuments in Lublin, Branch Office in Zamość; Archives of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Warsaw.

     

Category: tenement house

Architecture: Renaissance

Building material:  brick

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_06_BK.448, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_06_BK.400337