Wrocław Day 2

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September 19th 2018

Published: March 7th 2023

Today began with a morning sightseeing tour of Wrocław with a local guide. The group boarded our motorcoach over on Nowy Świat, along the Odra River. (Coaches are not allowed along Kiełbaśnicza where the hotel was located. I liked that name--Kielbasa Street!) The coach drove us over to the Exhibition Grounds. The Wrocław Exhibition Grounds opened in 1911 in a then far eastern part of the city... Read Full Entry

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Andrew Lisowski

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"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." I've traveled for a long time and have many memories of places and people. I enjoy travel, especially to new places I haven't seen before. Every journey, whether brief or extended, provides the opportunity for a new experience or a different way to see things. I like travel photography, too, and always have my camera with me. I look to the "4Hs of Tourism" as a guide when traveling: understanding the Habitat; Heritage; History and Handicrafts. Member of the TravBuddy travel blogging community from 2007 until its demise in 2018. [world... full info

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Pomnik Aleksandra hr. Fredry

Pomnik Aleksandra hr. Fredry - Monument to Aleksander Fredro - (Polish playwright, 1793-1876). Originally installed in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in 1876. Reinstalled in Wrocław Market Square (Rynek) in 1956 in place of the former equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III. DSC_0990

House of the Seven Electors

Kamienica "Pod Siedmioma Elektorami" - House of the Seven Electors. Townhouse built in the 15th century. Rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 1670s. It was then that the famous exterior frescoes depicting Emperor Leopold I and the seven electors of the Hapsburg Empire were added. Restored in 1990. Note the ornate doorway. Rynek 8. "On the W. side is the house (No. 8) once occupied by the Bohemian kings, built about 1500; the frescoes (1672) representing the Emperor and the seven Electors were restored in 1865".--Baedeker 1910. DSC_0993p1

Stary Rynek

West side of the Old Town Market Square (Rynek). "Near the centre of the Altstadt is the Ring, originally the market-place, the four sides of which bear different names".--Baedeker 1910. IMG_5645

Stary Rynek

West side of the Old Town Market Square (Rynek). "Near the centre of the Altstadt is the Ring, originally the market-place, the four sides of which bear different names".--Baedeker 1910. DSC_1003p1

Kamienica Pod Gryfami

Kamienica Pod Gryfami - House under the Griffins. Built in 1587-1589. Particularly notable, with a Mannerist gable roof, the most impressive in the Market Square. Rynek 2/3. DSC_1007

Jaś and Małgosia

Jaś and Małgosia (Hansel and Gretel) - two medieval tenements at the north-western corner of the Wrocław Market Square, connected with each other by an archway. Built most probably in the fifteenth century, they were then part of a larger group of dependencies of the parish church (St. Elizabeth). The archway was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1728-1740. Ulica św. Mikołaja 1. DSC_1006p1

St. Elizabeth's Church

Bazylika św. Elżbiety Węgierskiej - St. Elizabeth's Church. Tower completed in the mid-15th century and rebuilt in 1531-1535. The tower is 300 feet (91.5 m). Construction of the current Gothic church was supported by Bolesław III in the early 14th century. Built in 1309-1387. A Lutheran Church from 1542 to 1946 and then a Catholic church. Rebuilt in the 1980s. "...Church of St. Elizabeth, to the N.W. of the Ring, founded about 1245 and largely rebuilt at the end of the following century, has a tower 300 ft. in height (1452-56) and three choirs".--Baedeker 1913. IMG_5660

St. Elizabeth's Church

Bazylika św. Elżbiety Węgierskiej - St. Elizabeth's Church. Building of the current Gothic church was supported by Bolesław III in the early 14th century. Built in 1309-1387, it was one of two parish churches in Breslau. A Lutheran Church from 1542 to 1946 and then a Catholic church. Rebuilt in the 1980s. "...Church of St. Elizabeth, to the N.W. of the Ring, founded about 1245 and largely rebuilt at the end of the following century, has a tower 300 ft. in height (1452-56) and three choirs".--Baedeker 1910. IMG_5659

Bridge Tender's House

Most Pomoski - Pomosky (Pomeranian) Bridge. Bridge tender's house. Built for the Werderbrücke in 1904-1905. Renamed in 1945. DSC_1016p1

Liebich Hill

Liebich Hill, now Wzgórze Partyzantów (Partisan's Hill). The colonnade, built in 1867 was a restaurant before World War I. It was once surmounted by a pavilion. The lower colonnade was later enclosed and became a dance hall and disco (Klub Reduta). "...the modern belvedere called the Liebichs-Höhe, which commands an admirable survey of the town and its environs".--Baedeker 1910. DSC_1062p1

Cmentarz Oficerów Radzieckich

Cmentarz Oficerów Radzieckich - Memorial Cemetery of Soviet Officers. Gloriette. Interred in the cemetery are 763 Soviet officers and two partisans who died during the siege of Breslau in 1945. DSC_1082p1

Art Hotel

Art Hotel. The present building represents the union of a 16th century corner townhouse and a parish house built in 1896. In use as the St. Elizabeth parish house until 1945. Adaptive reuse as a hotel in 1996. Kiełbaśnicza 20, Wrocław. IMG_5665