Former Greek-orthodox Seminary Building with Seminary Church
The postcard shows a part of the building of the Residence of the Greek-Orthodox Bishop in Chernivtsi. From 1873 on he was the Metropolitan of the Bukowina and…
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Former Seminary Church
The postcard shows a part of the building of the Residence of the Greek-Orthodox Bishop in Chernivtsi. From 1873 on he was the Metropolitan of the Bukowina and…
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Monument for Konstantin Tomaszczuk
The postcard shows the monument for the Reichratsabgeordneten (Deputy to the Austrian parliament in Vienna) Konstantin Tomaszczuk (1840–1889). He was the…
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Destroyed Railway Bridge
The postcard shows the railway bridge crossing the river Pruth in Chernivtsi. It was built in 1908. During the First World War Chernivtsi was occupied by…
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University Building
The postcard shows the building of the Landesregierung of the Bukowina (Government of the Bukowina), built in 1871-73 by the architect Gustav Fritsch in a…
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Central Square
The postcars shows the Ringplatz (after the Polish “Rynek”) in Chernivtsi, called Piata Unirii in the Romanian times, Red Square in Soviet times and Central…
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Volksgarten Railway Station
In 1866 the railway line from Lviv (Lemberg), the capital of Galizien, to Chernivtsi was opened and extended to Suczawa in 1869. Then a small station was built…
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Andrej Sheptytsky Street
The postcard shows a part of the Landhausgasse, a street leading eastwards from the Hauptstrasse (main street) to the Russische Gasse. The street to the right…
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Gymnasium № 5
The first Staatsgymnasium was opened in Chernivtsi in 1808. In 1896 a second Staatsgymnasium was opened in Pater Eberhard Gasse behind the Jesuit Church. It…
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Holovna Street
The postcard shows the Heiligenkreuzplatz and the upper part of Enzenberg Hauptstrasse. The square is named after the cross (left side of postcard), errected…
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Philharmonic Square
The square then called Mehlplatz (Flour square) was renamed Rudolfsplatz in 1880 after Archduke Rudolf, the heir to the Habsburg throne. The reason for this…
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Rynok Square
The picture presents a view of the northern side of the Rynok (“Market”) Square – the so-called Rynok A. The large numbers of people in the square, as well as…
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Zolota Street
Ulanów Krechowieckich (“Krechów Uhlans”) Street was the name of today’s Zolota (“Golden”) Street in Brody in the interwar period. Named in honor of the Polish…
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Monument to Józef Korzeniowski
Józef Korzeniowski (1797-1863) was a famous Polish writer, playwright, and teacher hailing from Brody. Author of dozens of plays, stories and novels, of which…
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V. Stusa Street
The picture presents a fragment of one of the central streets of Brody – J. Korzeniowskiego street (the street’s oldest known name was Kościelna (“Church”); it…
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