Bessarabska market hall

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Bessarabska market hall
The Bessarabska market hall

The Bessarabska market hall

Data
place Kiev , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
architect Henryk Gai
Architectural style Art Nouveau with elements of constructivism
Construction year 1910-1912
Floor space 2896 m²
Coordinates 50 ° 26 '32.7 "  N , 30 ° 31' 17.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '32.7 "  N , 30 ° 31' 17.6"  E

The Bessarabska market hall ( Ukrainian Бессара́бський ринок Bessarabskyj rynok ) is a 2,896 m² market hall in the center of the Ukrainian capital Kiev .

Surname

The name of the impressive round building comes from the Bessarabska Square of the same name on which it is located, which in turn got its name from the farmers from the Bessarabia region who traded wine and fruit here in the 19th century .

The Bessarabska market hall in 1911

history

1904 the Kiev Sugar Baron, patron and donated philanthropist Lazar Brodsky (Ukr. Лазар Ізраїльович Бродський ) the city of 500,000 rubles to build a market hall, then from 1910 to 1912 according to plans of the Warsaw architect Henryk Julian Gay in rational Art Nouveau with elements of constructivism was built . The hall has a 15 m high glass roof and a facade decorated with reliefs with livestock and rural scenes.

The market hall has been a listed building as a monument to architecture and urban planning since 1979.

Market hall, interior view 2013

Web links

Commons : Bessarabska Market Hall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (=  Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 47 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
  2. a b c d e Бессарабський ринок - WWW Енциклопедія Києва. In: wek.kiev.ua. December 1, 2008, accessed February 9, 2019 (Ukrainian).
  3. Peter Knoch, Heike Maria Johenning: Architectural Guide Kiew . DOM publishers, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86922-287-5 , pp. 82 .
  4. Інформаційний зведений перелік об'єктів культурної спадщини Шевченківського району. Станом на 11/01/2018. (PDF; 1.46 MB) Market hall; Bessarabskaplatz 2; built from 1910 to 1913; Monument to Town Planning and Architecture number 899; Decree No. 442 of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR of September 6, 1979. In: guoks.gov.ua. November 1, 2018, p. 3 , accessed February 9, 2019 (Ukrainian).