Many masterpieces were created in ancient times, including the building of St. Anne's School, which today is more than 230 years old._ This bright house is located in the Lviv, Ukraine, on the corner of Horodotska and Leontovycha streets. My childhood was spent here, and every day I passed by this majestic building when I went to my school. I recently took a walk on Leontovycha Street and then I took again some photos again, now especially for the Architecture+Designcommunity :) I am sure that connoisseurs of ancient architecture will appreciate this amazing building!
The weather was warm, so I walked slowly and enjoyed the architecture of the old luxury houses on this street. It was an expensive area, where the houses are richly decorated, beautiful semicircular balconies and artistic stucco on the walls. I especially like the round loggias on the corner of the house. Probably a beautiful view of the city, if I could be inside! And opposite, on the left rises a unique house. Today, since 2009, in these ancient walls, at st. Leontovycha, 2 Lviv Law Gymnasium operates. The building is made of red brick and has a large courtyard, surrounded by a red brick fence as well. It looks very colorful! From Leontovich's side there are two entrances, beautiful ancient gates, in the form of an arch with a round window.
St. Anne's High School was built in 1791 at the ancient St. Anne's Church in the early 16th century. At that time, education in this institution was conducted in German, and later in Polish. Training was held here separately for boys and separately for girls.
Here is what the school building looked like in 1894. Source: Photos of old Lviv
For people who are more deeply interested in architectural styles, I provide a description from the site "Interactive Lviv" The house is U-shaped in plan, three-story, brick, unplastered. Completed with a sloping roof. The dominants of the architectural composition of the facades are high stepped anchorages of the corner reliefs, on some of them the coats of arms of Lviv are installed. Arched window openings. The windows on the first and second floors are solved as biphoria, on the third - as triforia (grouped by three). The exterior actively uses the texture of unplastered brick and the motif of the arched belt. Internal planning - corridor-office type.
While writing my article, I read some interesting articles about Old Lviv and here's what I learned: the famous architect Juliusz Hochberger and the "red" schools of Lviv It turns out that in my city there are many such schools, made in the same style. Buildings located in different parts of Lviv immediately attract attention. They are distinguished not only by the sophistication and elegance of the architectural solution, but also by a kind of marker - they are all built of unplastered red brick, which effectively distinguishes them from other, pale buildings next to them. And they are the center of active and noisy life in their areas, because for almost a century and a half have served as educational institutions. The 70s and 80s of the 19th century were a time of a real boom in school construction in Lviv. This was preceded by the reform of the school sector, carried out by the Galician Regional Seimas. In 1873, the Sejm passed a new regional school charter, a decree on the maintenance of schools at the expense of the city, and a decree that all state primary education institutions should be located in their own buildings. In 1874, the School Regional Council was established, whose responsibilities included, among other things, the financing of education, supervision of the appropriate level of construction of educational facilities. The National Council adopted criteria for the construction of school buildings. Mixed schools were most often built. Male and female parts of which were isolated. They had separate entrances and separate sets of all compulsory classrooms. The gymnasium, chapel and school administration premises could be shared.
It was in those years that most of the premises of Lviv schools were built, which are still the decoration of the city. The construction of these buildings is primarily associated with the name of the director of the Lviv City Construction Government Juliusz Hochberger. It was on his projects and under his leadership that most of the schools of that time were built. A native of the Prussian city of Posen (now Poznan, Poland), Juliusz Hochberger proved himself as a talented architect while studying at the Royal Academy of Civil Engineering in Berlin, winning a silver medal in a prestigious architectural competition. After graduating from the academy he worked in the Prussian construction service: he designed churches, bridges, roads, medical facilities, railway stations.
I crossed Horodotsky Street and once again look this beauty, created by a talented architect, which has been inherited by modern people! Against the cloudy sky, she looks gorgeous! Thank you for your visit 😊