Inhabitants types of Eastern Galicia and Bukovyna

• ID: 2209
• Date: 1900
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Claudia Erdheim

Tempel

• ID: 2206
• Date: 1910
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Claudia Erdheim

Destroyed Train Station

• ID: 2177
• Date: October 1917
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Taras Pinyazhko

Chernivtsi National University Building

• ID: 2147
• Date: 1905-1914
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Helmut Kusdat

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…

Circus Truzzi

• ID: 2146
• Date: 1905-1914
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Helmut Kusdat

The photo shows one of the regular guest performances of the famous Russian based Circus Truzzi which usually took place on the Austriaplatz (P. Ghica Voda…

View of Cherwonoarmijska Street

• ID: 2145
• Date: 1895-1901
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Helmut Kusdat

The photo shows the corner of Austriaplatz (P. Ghica Voda, Soborna pl.) and Rathausstrasse (Str. Regina Maria, vul. Tscherwonoarmijska) as seen from the…

Philharmonic Square

• ID: 1605
• Date: 1904
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

Holovna Street

• ID: 1604
• Date: 1904
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

The postcard shows the Heiligenkreuzplatz and the upper part of Enzenberg Hauptstrasse. The square is named after the cross (left side of postcard), errected…

Gymnasium № 5

• ID: 1602
• Date: 1908
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

Andrej Sheptytsky Street

• ID: 1601
• Date: 1900-1904
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

Volksgarten Railway Station

• ID: 1600
• Date: 1900-1904
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

Central Square

• ID: 1599
• Date: 1911
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

University Building

• ID: 1598
• Date: 1900-1905
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

Destroyed Railway Bridge

• ID: 1597
• Date: 1917
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

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…

Monument for Konstantin Tomaszczuk

• ID: 1596
• Date: 1905-1910
• Place: Chernivtsi
• Collection: Library of the Institute of Ethnology Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv

The postcard shows the monument for the Reichratsabgeordneten (Deputy to the Austrian parliament in Vienna) Konstantin Tomaszczuk (1840–1889). He was the…