Nowy Świat Street
The Ulica Nowy Świat ( ) (Eng. New World Street ) is one of the historical streets of Warsaw and part of the Warsaw Royal Route from the Warsaw Royal Castle to Wilanów . It begins at the Staszic Palace and leads over the Rondo Charles'a de Gaulle'a to Plac Trzech Krzyży . As early as the 16th century, the “New World” was the main street of the jurisdiction of the same name.
In the 17th century there were mostly wooden aristocratic seats here. During the Napoleonic period and afterwards, these were replaced by three-storey brick houses in the style of classicism . At the end of the 19th century, Nowy Świat became a main shopping street and at the same time the main artery of Warsaw. Thus, the dairy was in 1896 at no. 11 Mleczarnia Nadświdrzańska opened that as the nucleus of the traditional Polish cuisine roofed bar mleczny applies (milk bar). Around 1900 the classicist buildings were mostly replaced by taller Wilhelminian and Art Nouveau buildings. Since one of the guidelines for reconstruction after the end of the Second World War classified the buildings from the “capitalist period” of the 19th century as not worth reconstruction, the structural condition of 1939 was not reconstructed , but rather the appearance of the “New World” was used. around 1800. The Art Nouveau Hotel Savoy, which was only moderately damaged during the war, disappeared .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zielinski: Warsaw, Destroyed and Rebuild. 2003, pp. 31, 33.
- ↑ Zielinski: Warsaw, Destroyed and Rebuild. 2003, p. 86.
literature
- Jaroslaw Zielinski: Warsaw, Destroyed and Rebuild / Warszawa Zburzona i Odbudowana. Warsaw 2003, ISBN 83-909878-7-2 . (Polish and English)
