Brativ Rusnakiv Street with former student’s home
The photo shows the corner of Stefan Wolf Gasse (Str. Lazar, vul. Brativ Rusnakiv) and Ispesculgasse (Str. Isopescul, vul. Myrona Korduby). The building on the…
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Former student’s home
The photo shows the Kaiser Franz Joseph’s Universitäts Studentenheim (Emperor Franz Joseph home for university students) on the corner of Stefan Wolf Gasse…
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Regional Сouncil of the Chernivtsi Oblast
The postcard shows the Justizpalais (Palace of Justice), built on what was then part of the Theatre Square (or Fish square) in 1906. Only in 1910, when the…
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Gynaecological Hospital
The building on the postcard was buit in 1897 for the high school for agriculture and farming which was founded in 1871. The paintings on the facade show…
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Former Great Synagogue
The photo shows the so called Große Synagoge, the big synagogue in Synagogengasse (Str. Wilson, vul. Barbusa). Finished in 1853, it was one of around 70…
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Barbus Street with former Synagogue
The photo shows the Synagogengasse (Str. Wilson, vul. Barbusa) with the so called Große Synagoge in the distance, a big synagogue finished in 1853. It was one…
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Funeral of Mayor E. Reiss
In 1910 in Chernivtsi out of a total population of 90.000, around 33% were Jews. Chernivtsi was the only capital of an Austrian province (Landeshauptstadt)…
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Former Synagogue
The photo shows the Chewra-Tehilim Synagogue of the funeral brotherhood, one of around 70 synagogues and prayer houses in Chernivtsi before the Second World…
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Barbus Street
Chernivtsi was the ethnically most ‘mixed’ of all provincial capitals of the Habsburg Empire. In 1910 out of a total population of 90.000, around 33% were…
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School on Katedralna
In 1863 a Greek Orthodox High School (Oberrealschule) was founded, and in 1870 it moved into a new building at the corner of Siebenbürgerstrasse (Str. Stefan…
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Wooden Orthodox Church
Before the Austrian occupation of the Bukovina in 1775 there have been a number of wooden churches. Only two of them survived to this day. One is the church of…
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Orthodox Church
The Russische Gasse (Str. Romana, vul. Ruska) has nothing to do with Russia but was the way Austrian officials referred to the Ruthenians or Ukrainians in the…
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Ruska Street
The photo shows the church of the Greek Catholic Community in Russische Gasse (Str. Romana, vul. Ruska). The Greek-Catholic faith, the so called Uniates, split…
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Greek Catholic Church
The photo shows the church of the Greek Catholic Community in Russische Gasse (Str. Romana, vul. Ruska). The Greek-Catholic faith, the so called Uniates, split…
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Lomonosova Street
The photo shows the Petrowicz Gasse (Str. Petrovici, vul. Lomonosova) leading towards the church of the Armenian Catholics. It was built in style combining…
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