Warsaw. The tenement house lived Paweł Rotberg at 23 Wilcza Street went to the register of monuments

It combines modernized Baroque and Rococo architecture. In the 20th century, doctors, teachers, officials and artists lived in it. She survived the war with a historical decor. The tenement house of Paweł Rotberg at 23 Wilcza Street has just gone into the register of monuments.

The Mazowieckie Voivodship Conservator of Monuments Marcin Dawidowicz announced that the tenement house entered in the register is a valuable example of residential buildings characteristic of Warsaw from the first half of the 20th century.

– It is distinguished by an individual composition of architectural decorations and a development in the spirit of modernized Baroque and Rococo architecture, with a Art Nouveau facade – he added.

He said that its historical value is associated with the activities of architect Stanisław Grochowicz, who belonged to a group of Polish architects actively participating in the modernization and urbanization of Warsaw at the beginning of the 20th century.

Grochowicz was a designer of numerous luxury tenement houses and public buildings, including Kamienica Felicjan Jankowski in Warsaw, H. Kolberg's house at Aleje Ujazdowskie, Bank Wilhelm Landaua at Senatorska Street No. 42.

The tenement house at Wilcza Street went to the register of monuments

The inhabitants were the middle class

The tenement house at 23 Wilcza Street in Warsaw is located in the southern frontage of the compact street buildings, marked out in the former Kawęczyński farm. In 1821, the plot belonged to the successors of Wiśnicki, then to Kazimierz Sobolewski (1832). In the mid-nineteenth century, the property was occupied by a rent tenement house with a 2-pit. In 1911, a project of a single-core tenement house was created by architect Stanisław Grochowicz, which was to replace the existing stone-wooden buildings. The project was implemented in 1912 for the new owner Paweł Rotberg.

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In 1918, the tenement was bought by Moses Chaim and Rajzla Rozalja from Szternfeldor. In the years 1931-1939, the owners of the property were: Szyna vel Zofja and Hanna-Brau spouses Bresław, Szul Zlusasz and Łaja spouses Frastag, and the heirs: Wincenty Skórecki, Aleksandra née Skóreckie Manikowowa and Józef Adam Skórecki. After 1945, Adam Skórecki was the only owner of the property.

Representatives of the then middle class lived in the building, including Doctors, teachers, officials, owners of private companies, as well as artists (painter Stanisław Sawiczewski).

The interior of the tenement house at Wilcza Street

Survived the war

The tenement house at 23 Wilcza Street survived the war without serious damage. A complete historical decor of the facade with a rich Art Nouveau decoration with the date “1912” on the building has survived.

In 1945, tenants of the tenement house as part of the activities of the former committee, and then as the administrative and housing cooperative Sam XV partly renovated and secured the building.

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After 1963, the building became the property of the Treasury. In the 1990s, the conservation renovation of all facades and balconies was carried out, as well as partially modernization of interior, staircases and gate crossing. At that time, window joinery and staircase doors were replaced on the pattern of the original.