Miasto Kazimierzowskie w Radomiu : problemy konserwatorskie

• Authors: Blum Bogusław

Title variants

EN

The Kazimierzowskie Old Town in Radom - Conservation Problems

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

Already fifteen years ago the Kazimierzowskie Old Town in Radom which includes approximately the city center dating back to the reign of Kazimierz the Great (town rights prior to 1350) was taken into consideration as part of a revalorization plan. The Voivodeship Residential Cooperative commissioned professors Hanna and Kazimierz Wejchert from the Warsaw Polytechnic to carry out this undertaking. The conception proposed a residential and service complex, treated as a fragment of the town center. It was presented to the municipal authorities and residents in 1978. The majority of the existing buildings originate from the turn of the nineteenth century, and remain in a highly unsatisfactory technical state. The older objects include various churches, the town hall and the parish church. The historical dimension of the buildings was destroyed in the 1950s and 1960s due to the introduction of new constructions. Despite a critical opinion about the threestorey apartment houses (built in the 1980s), located between Szwarlikowska and Rej Street, one should not negate the work conducted by the team from the Warsaw Polytechnic, who collected extensive material and thoroughly examined the terrain. The controversial project of two houses in Szewska Street, albeit originally rejected by the Voivodeship Town Planning and Architectonic Commission, was ultimately accepted without any alterations. The revalorization of the Old Town remains a difficult issue, both from the point of view of projects and realization. It should take into account the retention of the elevations of the existing historical edifices, their relation of measurements (vertical and horizontal), street sections, elevations and panoramas from various angles. This is the reason why already at this stage all projects proposed by investors should be carefully analyzed and assessed, while their authors should be selected either by means of local competitions or tests. Already today the authorities should make rapid and reasonable decisions, in order to stir the interest of investors, including foreign ones. The erection of a tourist center, surrounded by an historical city, constitutes the greatest opportunity for enlivening the whole town.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1993
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 125-131

Dates

published

1993

Contributors

author

Blum Bogusław

References

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• Urbanistyka i architektura Radomia, pod red. W. Kalinowskiego, Radom 1979.
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• T. Kazimierski, Miasto Kazimierzowskie w Radomiu, „Miasto” 1987 nr 9, ss. 16-20
• B. Blum, Węgierskie spotkania urbanistow, .„Miasto” 1989 r. 5, ss. 32-33.

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ISSN

0029-8247