As mentioned, this is a multi-part series, and as such, we’ll now leave some of the major sights behind and venture out into the streets of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv as it once were. Find the first instalment here:
Here we go—and I hope you enjoy these picture postcards, all of which are from before or during World War One, as much as I do.
We’ll start were we left off—next to the Shevchenko monument (invisible here due to the foliage in the bottom-left corner), but the white corner building with the Art Nouveau dome is the same. Across the street—that black-ish building on the far right of the postcard, there is the Museum for Ethnography, Arts, and Crafts whose premises once belonged to the Galician Savings and Loans Bank.
Below is the reverse, which, although undated, carries the already-known red censorship stamp as well as the blue stamp of the “imperial-royal territorial defence company 21/1”, indicating it was sent during the First World War.
“Kielinski Park” is shown here, which today is known as Stryiskyi Park, “dedicated to the centennial of the insurrection led by Tadeusz Kościuszko”. Before 1914, the “General Regional Exposition of Galicia” was conducted at this site.
This spot is right next to the place shown below, with the white building in the above postcard being the same as the white building in the below postcard.
The scene is located at the intersection of Halytska and Valova Streets:
That spot is Muzeina Square today, and shown are the Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (the spire on the right) and the Church of the Assumption of Mary (on the left), also known as the Dormition Church, which is a Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Old Town. The tower in the background is part of the City Hall in Rynok Square.
It, too, shows a square and infrastructure that still exists (see below), but the monument to Smolkí has been “dismantled in 1946” and replaced by a memorial dedicated to the “Fighters for Ukrainian State System”, as Google would have it.
This concludes our trip across Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv for today, and if you’re interested in other such “unknown” places that no longer exist, I’ll direct you to this website about “10 Places You Will Never Visit in Lviv”.