Villa Baszta

View from Jodłowa Street

View from the Vistula Valley

Babia Góra from the villa

The Villa Baszta (Polish: Willa Baszta ) in Kraków is a villa at 13a Jodłowa Street by the Wolski Forest in the Przegorzały district .

history

The villa was built for himself in the form of a medieval rotunda by Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz between 1928 and 1919 . He bought the land for the construction, a wooded rock, from the Camaldolese monastery . The villa was confiscated by the German occupiers in 1940 and Otto Wächter moved into the villa. Wartenberg Castle was built on the villa from 1942 to 1943 . The building is currently used by the Jagiellonian University .

location

The view from the villa to the south extends to the Tatras and the Babia Góra massif .

The nature reserve Skałki Przegorzalskie is located below the villa . The Jagiellonian University guest house is located above the villa.

Web links

Commons : Villa Baszta  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

proof

• Encyklopedia Krakowa red. Antoni Henryk Stachowski, PWN 2000, ISBN 83-01-13325-2

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 19 ° 51 ′ 57.4 ″  E