DOI Artikel:
Omilanowska-Kiljańczyk, Małgorzata: Architektura uzdrowiskowa Połągi w latach 1870 - 1914
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28100#0371
In accordance with plans drawn up also by Edouard Andre, a spa town was thus laid
out, but unfortunately the concepts for this urban design have never been recovered, and
it is impossible to make out the original intentions from the current spatial arrangement
of todays Palanga.
In the course of several dozen years some tens of villas and boarding houses were
raised in Palanga. The majority of them built by local companies followed simple de-
sign schemes of gable roofed wooden bungalows with verandas. Also, some dozen
morę sophisticated buildings with a morę complex lay-out were built. Though in some
cases the Palanga villas simply resorted to the catalogues of the renown German com-
panies, such as Wolgaster Actien Gesellschaft and model books of the kind of that of
Richard Dorschfeldt.
Schwechten was selected once again to design the baths, and in Berlin two varia-
tions have been preserved of the design from 1900 and 1902. At the same time work
on the new spa house - kurhaus - continued, for which Stanisław Witkiewicz had been
commissioned to create a building in the so-called Tatras or Zakopane style.
Unfortunately, nonę of these designs ever advanced beyond the planning stage:
neither the new spa house nor heated baths ever came into being; not that this was
to prevent Palangas continued growth as a spa town. Residing in their palatial man-
or, the Tyszkiewicz couple oversaw the provincial little towns transformation into an
elegant seaside resort during the course of little morę than a dozen years. In order
to ensure the carrying out of their ideas they employed some well-known architects,
whose ideas including the raising of a spa house in the Zakopane style, thus no doubt
encouraging Stanisław Karwowski to write in 1913: ‘Let Połąga become in the North
what Zakopane already is in the South’.
Architektura
uzdrowiskowa
Połągi...
Translated by Peter Martyn
out, but unfortunately the concepts for this urban design have never been recovered, and
it is impossible to make out the original intentions from the current spatial arrangement
of todays Palanga.
In the course of several dozen years some tens of villas and boarding houses were
raised in Palanga. The majority of them built by local companies followed simple de-
sign schemes of gable roofed wooden bungalows with verandas. Also, some dozen
morę sophisticated buildings with a morę complex lay-out were built. Though in some
cases the Palanga villas simply resorted to the catalogues of the renown German com-
panies, such as Wolgaster Actien Gesellschaft and model books of the kind of that of
Richard Dorschfeldt.
Schwechten was selected once again to design the baths, and in Berlin two varia-
tions have been preserved of the design from 1900 and 1902. At the same time work
on the new spa house - kurhaus - continued, for which Stanisław Witkiewicz had been
commissioned to create a building in the so-called Tatras or Zakopane style.
Unfortunately, nonę of these designs ever advanced beyond the planning stage:
neither the new spa house nor heated baths ever came into being; not that this was
to prevent Palangas continued growth as a spa town. Residing in their palatial man-
or, the Tyszkiewicz couple oversaw the provincial little towns transformation into an
elegant seaside resort during the course of little morę than a dozen years. In order
to ensure the carrying out of their ideas they employed some well-known architects,
whose ideas including the raising of a spa house in the Zakopane style, thus no doubt
encouraging Stanisław Karwowski to write in 1913: ‘Let Połąga become in the North
what Zakopane already is in the South’.
Architektura
uzdrowiskowa
Połągi...
Translated by Peter Martyn