Richard the Lionheart Castle
| Richard the Lionheart Castle Richard the Lionheart House / Richard the Lionheart Castle |
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 View from the St. Andreas Church to the "Castle" |
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Kiev , Ukraine
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| architect | R. Marfeld |
| Client | Dmitri Orlov |
| Architectural style | Neo-Gothic |
| Construction year | 1902-1904 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 27 '36.1 " N , 30 ° 30' 57.7" E |
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The Richard the Lionheart Castle ( Ukrainian «Замок Річарда - Левине серце" ) is the most prominent building on the Andreas climbing in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The architectural monument on Andreassteig number 15 got its name from the writer Wiktor Nekrasov , who reminded the building in the pseudo-Gothic style with its facade decorations typical for medieval castles of a castle by Richard the Lionheart . The builder of the house in the historic Podil district was the Kiev industrialist Dmitri Orlov.
history
The building, built between 1902 and 1904 by the architect R. Marfeld as a five-story apartment block, is shrouded in legend. Before the building was completed, the house suddenly burned in 1904, which led to the first rumors among the local population that there was something bad there. This reputation was further strengthened after the builder was shot in Siberia in 1911 and his heavily indebted widow had the house completed with the cheapest workers and auctioned it for 114,000 gold rubles. Soon the tenants, including the Ukrainian artists Hryhorij Djadtschenko , F. Balavenskij, F. Krasitskij and I. Makuschenko, heard eerie noises.
It was later found that these were caused by drafts in heating and ventilation pipes of different diameters, which the workers installed as revenge against the builder's widow for her poor pay. However, at this time the reputation as a "haunted castle" was already widespread. After the October Revolution , the building was nationalized as a prison and used again as a tenement house. The house was empty from 1983 to 1993; a hairdresser, a butcher's and a grocery store were located in the basement of the house. At the moment the house is supposed to be converted into a hotel. In the One Street Museum (Музей однієї вулиці) on Andreassteig there are personal items and works of art of the residents, as well as photos and plans of the building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Castle Richard the Lionheart ukraine discover-on ; last accessed on June 6, 2014
- ↑ a b Castle by Richard Löwenherz on goruma.de ; last accessed on June 6, 2014
- ↑ a b Richard the Lionheart Castle in Kiev on ua-travelling.com ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; last accessed on June 6, 2014
- ^ A b 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. 73 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
- ↑ zamok-richarda on mykiev.info ; last accessed on June 6, 2014 (Russian)
