List of customs houses in Poland

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Wroclaw Customs House in Kalisz
Customs House II in Warszawa-Grochów
Customs house I in Warszawa-Mokotów
Dobrin customs house in Płock
Warsaw Custom House in Radom
Scheitniger barrier in Wroclaw
Rogatki Jerozolimskie with turnpike (around 1860)

The list of customs houses in Poland includes customs houses ( Polish rogatka , plural rogatki ) in today's Poland . They were built in the 19th century and were used to collect local customs duties , city taxes or road tolls . The buildings mostly renowned architects were in the aftermath of the First World War changed uses , also partly rebuilt and are now under preservation .

history

The preserved customs houses in the Russian Congress Poland date from the first half of the 19th century. They were executed in the classicism style and often replaced wooden previous buildings that followed the shifted city limits as the cities grew. The architects included Jakub Kubicki (1758–1833), who designed the Warsaw buildings, Stefan Baliński (1794–1872) and Henryk Marconi (1792–1863) in Radom, and Franz (Franciszek) Reinstein (1792–1853) in Kalisz .

In Warsaw, 18 customs houses were built at ten locations on the city limits. As in Płock , they were available in pairs on the main roads.

In the Prussian city of Wroclaw there were also ten customs stations at the city limits, which were referred to as "barriers". The word rogatka also means a “ barrier ” in Polish . Two of these buildings from the second half of the 19th century are used as residential buildings.

List of preserved customs houses in Poland

Destroyed Customs Houses (selection)

See also

literature

  • Witold Szolginia: Architektura. Sigma NOT, Warszawa 1992. ISBN 83-85001-89-1 . Pp. 136-137
  • Encyklopedia Warszawy. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1994. ISBN 83-01-08836-2 . P. 732.
  • Jerzy Sekulski: Encyclopedia Radomia. Radom 2012. ISBN 978-83-7789-106-3 . Pp. 277-278.
  • Ewa Kutyła: Walk through Radom . 3rd edition, Radom 2015. pp. 24, 44.

Web links

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