Pieta Monument on the Central Square
The photo shows houses of the eastern section of the Ringplatz (Piata Unirii, Central Square). The eastern side of the Ringplatz was and is a little elevated…
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Panorama of the Theatre Square
The postcard shows the Theatre Square in the time between the wars, when it was named Piata Vasile Alexandri. Theatre preformances took place in restaurants…
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Eastern side of the Central Square
The postcard shows the entire eastern section of the Ringplatz (Piata Unirii, Central Square). The eastern side of the Ringplatz was and is a little elevated…
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Market on the Theatre Square
The photo shows the Theatre Square in Chernivtsi before the First World War when it was named Elisabethplatz, also known as Fischplatz. The square was first…
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Bus on the Holovna Str.
The photo shows Holovna Street (main street), which was first known as Lemberger Strasse (Lviv Street). It was part of the oldest and most important road in…
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Grocery Shop
The photo shows the grocery of A. Ippen, founded by Israel Ippen in 1894. Most likely it was located in Springbrunnengasse (Str. Creanga, vul.…
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Corner Holovna Street and Soborna Square
The postcard shows the corner of Siebenbürger Strasse (Str. Stefan cel Mare, vul. Holovna) and Austriaplatz (Piata Ghica Voda, Soborna Pl.).…
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Buildings on the Holovna Street
The postcard shows a section of the Siebenbürger Strasse (Str. Stefan cel Mare, vul. Holovna) This street is part of the main North-South axes of the town…
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Former Governor’s House
When the Bukovina was annexed by Austria in 1775, there were about 2000 people living in Chernivtsi, all in wooden houses. The photo shows the so called…
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Lesia Ukrainky Street
The photo shows the Althgasse (Str. Cuza Voda, vul. Lesi Ukrainky). The building to the left was the Städtischer Bauhof, a municipal warehouse for building…
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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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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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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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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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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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