U Cerniku je, prema izvorima, postojala mala kapela Svetoga Bartola Apostola još u 16. stoljeću. Kapela je zbog proglašenja samostalne župe 1830. godine i povećanja broja vjernika morala biti proširena, odnosno, trebala je biti izgrađena... more
U Cerniku je, prema izvorima, postojala mala kapela Svetoga Bartola Apostola još u 16. stoljeću. Kapela je zbog proglašenja samostalne župe 1830. godine i povećanja broja vjernika morala biti proširena, odnosno, trebala je biti izgrađena nova crkva. Krajem 19. stoljeća župljani pokreću inicijativu u tom smislu te 1903. i 1906. godine daju izraditi dva potpuno različita neostilska idejna projekta u skladu s predviđenim financijskim sredstvima. Odabire se neorenesansno projektno rješenje arhitekta Jurja Chwalea, a izgradnja je nove crkve pod vodstvom lokalnih majstora bila dovršena 1909. godine.
"The article is devoted to the building of the National Casino (also called the Equine- or Noble-Casino) in Lwów, the seat of the prestigious Society of Breeding and Racing (Fr. Le Société d’Élevage et de Courses). The society gathered... more
"The article is devoted to the building of the National Casino (also called the Equine- or Noble-Casino) in Lwów, the seat of the prestigious Society of Breeding and Racing (Fr. Le Société d’Élevage et de Courses). The society gathered members of the Polish gentry from the Crown land of Galicia who jointly organized equestrian exhibitions and courses. Incepted in 1842, the Casino was not transferred to its own building until 1898; the construction was based on projects prepared by the famous Viennese architectural atelier of Ferdinand Fellner and Herman Helmer.
Of interest here is the Casino’s assembly in a highly decorated neo-baroque style with references to Austrian late-baroque architecture, the most in-vogue architectural style in Vienna at this time. Situated in the middle of a dynamically developing Lwów, the Casino quickly came to be regarded as one of the city’s most elegant buildings. It received a number of innovative architectural and structural solutions (e.g. a splendid glass-covered hall) that can be identified in many other palaces and villas constructed by Fellner and Helmer.
The National Casino was also one of the first neo-baroque style buildings constructed at the end of the 19th century in Galicia that has been praised by contemporaries for its “lightness and refinement”. It is highly likely that the construction of a highly ornamented neo-baroque palace by representatives of the Polish gentry might be witness not only to an appreciation of baroque architecture (which was through the 19th century considered an ugly, “wild form of renaissance”) but also of an attempt to correlate baroque architectural language as the proper form for club-building – suitable for a place of “dolce far niente” of the Polish aristocracy."
