Poznan Antiques

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Poznan Antiques
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Poznan City Hall

• Poznan's Town Hall (Ratusz) was first documented
  in Latin in 1310 as Domus Consulum. The building
  was completed in 1300 during the reign of Waclaw
  II Czeski. It was a one-story building built upon
  a raised quadrangle. The cellars remain from this
  period of construction. Renovations were made in
  the 15th century. The interior was remodeled
  between 1504-1508

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Archicathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St.
Paul, Poznan

• Poznan is one of the oldest churches in Poland
  and the oldest Polish cathedral.
• The cathedral is the supposed place of baptism of
  Mieszko I. Build in the second half of the 10th
  century. It was raised to the status of a
  cathedral in 968 when the first missionary Bishop
  Jordan came to Poland. St. Peter became the
  patron of the church because, as the first
  cathedral in the country, it had the right to
  have the same patron as St. Peter's
  Basilica in the Vatican
  The pre-romanesque church which was
  built at that time was
  about 48m in length. Relics of this building are
  still visible
  in the basements of today's basilica. The
  first church survived
  for about seventy years, until the period of
  the pagan
  reaction and the raid of the Bohemian duke
  
  Bretislav I (10341038). The cathedral was
  rebuild in the
  Romanesque style, remains of which are visible in
  the southern tower.

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Poznan 1956 protests

• The Poznan 1956 protests (sometimes called Poznan
  insurrection 1956) (Polish Poznanski Czerwiec
  "Poznan June") was the first of massive protests
  of the Polish people against the communist
  government. The protests began on June 28, 1956,
  at Poznan's Cegielski Factories and were met with
  bloody repression. A crowd of 100,000 gathered in
  the city center near the UB (Communist Secret
  Police) building and were fired upon. 400 tanks
  and 10,000 soldiers were ordered to smash the
  demonstration. According to official figures, 74
  people were killed (the actual number of dead is
  thought to be higher), including a 13-year-old
  boy, Romek Strzalkowski. More than a thousand
  people sustained injuries.

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Imperial Castle

• The monumental edifice that used to be a
  residence of the German emperor was built in the
  years 1904-1910 according to a design by Franz
  Schwechten, who apparently took on board many
  suggestions from Kaiser Wilhelm II himself. The
  castle was a pivotal element of "the castle
  district" projected as a visiting card of the
  city and testifying to its supposedly German
  origins.
• The architecture of this neo - Romanesque,
  multipartite structure harks back to medieval
  castles, and its individual parts are modelled on
  Romanesque monuments in Germany and Italy. Most
  of the designs of the dressed - stone elevation
  and the interiors were made by Gotthold
  Riegelmann.
• The whole structure is dominated by the tower
  with a clock, originally 74 metres high. Inside
  it a chapel was made in 1913. It was designed by
  August Oetken and modelled on the famous Capella
  Palatina in Palermo. In the east part of the
  edifice there was a magnificent throne chamber.
  Emperor Wilhelm II stayed here twice first at
  the inauguration in 1910 and then in 1913.

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St Stanislaus Church

• The collegiate church of the parish church
  district under the invocation of Our Lady of
  Perpetual Succour and St Mary Magdalene is one of
  the most exquisite examples of Baroque
  architecture in Poland. It was built by the
  Jesuits. The work started in 1649 and was
  interrupted several times until it was finished
  over 50 years later.
• The work was begun by Thomas Poncino and after
  several years' break it was continued in 1678 by
  the collegiate rector and a prominent
  theoretician of architecture, Bartlomiej Nataniel
  Wasowski. It is to him that the church owes its
  present look. Using already existing walls, he
  elaborated a new design for the church and
  proceeded to execute it. The construction was
  halted by Wasowski's death in 1887. It was
  resumed by Giovanni Catenazzi in 1697-1701.
• Although the church was consecrated in 1705, it
  got its final form only between 1727-32. After
  the closure of the Jesuit Order in 1773, the
  church took over from the destroyed St Mary
  Magdalene collegiate becoming the city Parish
  Church in 1798.

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Raczynski Library

• It was founded by count Edward Raczynski of
  Rogalin. The classicist edifice was built between
  1822-29 according to a design made in Rome by an
  unknown architect. The front elevation, with its
  impressive colonnade made up of 12 pairs of cast
  iron Corinthian columns, was modelled on the east
  wall of the Louvre. It was the first building in
  Poland erected virtually exclusively to house a
  library collection. Destroyed in 1945, the
  building was rebuilt between 1953-56. The
  elevations were restored in 1998.
• The library was opened on 5 May 1829. In
  conformity with its founding statute, the library
  became property of the city and was to be run by
  a board of trustees. The historian Józef
  Lukaszewicz was the first librarian in charge of
  the collection, which started from several
  thousand volumes donated by the founder. On the
  eve of WWII the library already numbered some 165
  thousand volumes.

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