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15 minutes presents 5 places in the center of Vilnius, which until recently looked completely different from today.
5. Radville Palace
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Radvili Palace Museum now
Painting by Vytautas Gabriūnas / Lithuanian Art Museum / Yes. Radvila Palace should have looked like the 18th century; the remaining part of them can be seen to the left of the image
Today, a division of the Lithuanian National Art Museum is located in the building of the former Radvilas Palace, which has survived on Vilniaus Street.
The ensemble, which was a hundred years ago, was damaged during World War II, but the palace’s western pavilion was at ground level after the war.
The ruins of Vokiečių Street remained untidy until the mid-1970s. The building was used as a tool in the filming of the movie “What’s its name now?” The director was looking for a building that could explode.
You can see what the demolition scene looked like in the movie, you can do it in the video by clicking this link.
4. Raduškevičius Palace
Photo by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Museum / epaveldas.lt / The Raduškevičius Palace looked like this in the past
Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain Photo / Current headquarters of the Union of Architects
The current “half castle” belonging to the Union of Architects, which is located next to the Green Bridge, did not always seem so strange. It is known that even before the 18th century, a palace that had finally collapsed was located here.
The construction of the neo-Gothic castle next to the Green Bridge began at the end of the 19th century, on the initiative of Dr. Hilaras Raduškevičius.
The western body of the palace and the western part of the northern body were demolished in the early 1960s. Part of the building was demolished through the layout of Kalvarijų Street.
3. The current Vokiečių street and the Jewish quarter
1915 Vokiečių st.
Photo by Irmantas Gelūno / 15min / Vilnius Vokiečių Street now. Almost the only thing in common is St. Catherine’s Church Tower
One of the oldest streets in Vilnius, Vokiečių Street and its entrances, is probably the oldest space in the Old Town that has changed its face the most in the last century.
Until World War II, a large Jewish quarter stretched along the winding streets around Vokiečių Street, and during the war a large ghetto was built on both sides of Vokiečių Street in the southern part and a small ghetto in the northern part.
Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain Photo / Vilnius Great Synagogue, 1914-1918. Photo
Photo by Irmantas Gelūnas / 15min photo / The courtyard where the synagogue was, now
During the war, the old Jewish quarter was bombed, but this city space was radically reorganized during the Soviet era: Vokiečių street was widened and most of the remaining buildings were demolished, including the famous Vilnius synagogue.
2. Pilies g. 23 former cardinal
Image from the Vilnius Art Museum / epaveldas.lt. / Castle Street in 1912
Wikipedia Commons photo / Castillo st. 23 now
Another palace that belonged to the Radvila family did not reach the 21st century. The post office was located in the 16th century building called Cardenal, and the Juozapas Zavadskis bookstore was open during the interwar period.
The building was damaged during World War II, but was destroyed decades later. Although the cardinal was burned in 1944, the building remained stationary for a long time, 12 years, but after the war the cardinal was not repaired and was demolished by the Soviet authorities.
In 1979 a new residential building was erected on Castle Street.
1. Lazdyn La Owl Monument
Photo from Wikimedia Commons / St. Joseph’s Bride Church
Luke April / 15 minute photo / Hazelnut Owl Square
Today, in the square next to the Church of All Saints, there is a monument to the Ivanauskaitė sisters, who wrote under the pseudonym Lazdynai Pelėda.
However, the monument was not always here. From the 17th century to the mid-19th century, St. The Church of Joseph’s Bride. The demolition of the church began in 1876.
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