Stradom

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Overview of Stradom in the middle and the surrounding area

Stradom (ska) street

Stradom is a district of the city of Krakow in Poland . It belongs to the district 1 old town . The former suburb on the Vistula was incorporated in 1792.

The area of Stradom stands as an ensemble since 1934 under monument protection . It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage " Historical Center of Krakow " and the Polish Historical Monument (Pomnik historii) "Historical City Complex".

location

The district is bordered by the Vistula River to the west, the Wawel Castle Hill and Kraków's Old Town to the north, the Wesoła district to the northeast, and Kazimierz to the southeast and south.

history

Depiction of Stradom and the "royal bridge" on the Vistula, to the right of the Wawel Castle Hill in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum (VI, 1618)

Stradom developed in the 15th century as a suburb of Krakow, on a floodplain of the Vistula. A “royal bridge” (Pons Regius) with the trade route to the south spanned the Vistula arm between Krakow and the city of Kazimierz .

Stradom was incorporated into Krakow with other places and the city of Kazimierz in 1792 by the four-year-old Sejm . Three years later, after the Third Partition of Poland, Krakow became part of the Crown Land of Galicia of the Habsburg Monarchy . From 1809 to 1815 it belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw and, after the Congress of Vienna, to the Republic of Krakow .

From 1889 (or 1880) to 1900, the population of Stradom rose from 3405 to 4410 and the number of houses from 72 to 81. In the 1900 census, 1,541 residents said they were Roman Catholics and 2,844 Israelites, 3,768 spoke Polish and 509 German. In 1921, Stradom had 210 buildings with 8,303 residents. Of these, 5,137 were of Polish nationality, 3,273 were Roman Catholics and 4,987 were Jewish.

Architectural monuments

Stradom is part of an area that was declared a historical city complex (historyczny zespół miasta) on September 16, 1994 by presidential decree of Lech Wałęsa as a historical monument (Pomnik historii).

• Baroque Bernardine Church (Kościół Bernardynów) and monastery
• Baroque Lazarist Church
• Baroque St. Agnes Church (Kościół św. Agnieszki)
• Theological seminar
• Puget Palais, built in 1874 ( neo-renaissance )
• Ohrstein House, built 1911–1913
• Press Palace, built in 1920

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  St. Bernard Church

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  Lazarist Church

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  Agnes Church

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  Puget Palace

Personalities

• Jakub Ignacy Cyboni (1660–1728), Superior of the Lazarists in Stradom around 1702
• Giovanni Antonio Fabri (1652–1723), superior and head of the religious seminary of the Lazarists
• Michał Szembek (1650–1726), co-founder of the Mission Church
• Bolesław Wallek-Walewski (1885–1944), long-time director of the choir of the Theological Institute.

Web links

Commons : Stradom  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stradom . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 383 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• whc.unesco.org: Historic Center of Kraków. (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Registered under the number A-12 on February 23, 1934.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich. Volume 11. Warsaw 1890. pp. 383-384.
3. ↑ isap.sejm.gov.pl: Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii. (Polish in the Sejm's document server , accessed on July 5, 2020)

literature

• Leszek Grabowski: Podglądanie starego Krakowa Część III. Wawel i jego okolice, Stradom i Kazimierz. Kwiecień 2009 - sierpień 2011 , Kraków, 2013 (Polish)

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 19 ° 56'  E