2026-04-12 15:44
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2026-04-12 15:44
The tenement house at 130 Chmielna Street was entered into the register of monuments. Masovian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments, Marcin Dawidowicz, emphasized that the tenement house is a valuable relic of the historical buildings of the western section of the street. Chmielna.
Naftal and Frajda Nisenszal's tenement house at ul. Chmielna 130 was built at the end of the 19th century as a single-yard building intended for renting residential and commercial premises of various standards. The building changed owners many times.
“The tenement house documents the dynamic development of housing construction in Wola at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, including housing investments of the Jewish community, which dominated in this part of the city,” the conservator noted.
He emphasized that the historical value of the building is also proven by its history during World War II, when the tenement house was located in the area of intense fighting for the Main Railway Station and the Post Office, both during the September Campaign of 1939 and the Warsaw Uprising.
At the beginning of August and September 1944, in the area of the tenement house there was a post of soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising, including the “Chrobry II” group, fighting to capture and hold the Postal Station. After 1945, despite plans for demolition, a fragment of the northern frontage of the western section of the street Chmielna was preserved.
“The tenement house at ul. Chmielna 130, together with the neighboring buildings no. 128 and 126, is a testimony to the historical development from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, documents the original character of the street's development, and thus constitutes an important historical testimony to the spatial development of Wola. Due to the relatively few preserved examples of 19th-century residential buildings in the Wola district, the tenement house at ul. Chmielna 130 is a valuable asset. a testimony to the history and material culture of that period,” Dawidowicz noted.
The MWKZ decision also emphasized the high artistic value of the building, which, despite the transformations made, including the removal of plaster with the original decoration of the façade and the demolition of the transverse outbuilding, retains a clear single-yard layout, form, design and architectural concept. Tenement house at ul. Chmielna 130 was built for representatives of the wealthy bourgeoisie.
The tenement house entered in the register was built in the Art Nouveau style. It had a beautiful facade with lots of decorations, of which only a bare wall remained after the times of the Polish People's Republic. Currently, the tenement house is abandoned and waiting for renovation. (PAP)
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