Metadata: [Architectural] Conservation Administration
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. Manuscripts Department
- Holding institution (official language):
- Львівська національна наукова бібліотека України імені В. Стефаника. Bідділ рукописів
- Postal address:
- Stefanyka St. 2, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 236-80-28
- Email:
- manuscr@lsl.lviv.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 26
- Title:
- [Architectural] Conservation Administration
- Title (official language):
- УПРАВЛІННЯ КОНСЕРВАЦІЇ [ПАМ'ЯТОК АРХІТЕКТУРИ]
- Creator/accumulator:
- [Architectural] Conservation Administration
- Date(s):
- 1893/1939
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 67 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
Materials housed in the fond that pertain to Jewish history and culture exist mainly in the form of particular file fragments, and may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Preliminary information about Jewish religious structures, obtained in the course of audits, fact-finding trips, or other methods, for compiling lists of registered architectural monuments located in the territory of the Lwów, Stanisławów, and Tarnopol voivodeships. These lists include, in particular, stone synagogues in the cities of Brody, Leszniów, and elsewhere, and a wooden synagogue in the Sambor county village of Felsztyn (now Skelivka) (1920); information sheets on various architectural objects, with descriptions and schematic sketches, including the synagogue in Sieniawa (now Poland, Subcarpathian voivodeship), etc. (1934-35); documents pertaining to various museums’ inventorying of artworks, including descriptions and photographs, in particular, materials on the collection of ritual menorahs and Chanukah menorahs of the 17th and 18th c. at Lwów’s King John III National Museum (now the Lviv Historical Museum; 1921-36); etc.
2) Data on the restoration and reconstruction of historical buildings, including materials of the Restorers’ Club of Eastern Galicia – among these are documents on consideration of the need to reconstruct the building of Lwów’s Nachmanowicz (Golden Rose) synagogue (1918); reports on the activities of the Lwów Voivodeship Conservation Administration’s regional restoration bureau, which indicate Jakub (Yankev) Ber Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater (Polish. Teatr żydowski [Jakuba Bera] Gimpla) among candidates for the awarding of restoration funding (1926), and include a plan for the restoration of an 18th-c. synagogue in the city of Krakowiec (1936) and a report on the results of work to restore multicolored wall paintings in a wooden synagogue in the city of Chodorów (1936); etc.
3) Permits for the construction of new buildings in the vicinity of Jewish cultural heritage sites, in particular, minutes from a meeting to consider an architectural draft for an Orthodox Jewish school that the local community planned to build near a registered Jewish house of worship in Czortków (now Chortkiv) (1927); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Conservation [Restoration] Administration of the Lwów Voivodeship (Polish: Wydział Konserwatorski Województwa Lwowskiego) was organized in 1920 and operated until 1939. It was in charge of the preservation, restoration, and reconstruction of architectural and historical monuments in the territory of Eastern Galicia, including the Lwów, Stanisławów, and Tarnopol voivodeships. It was preceded by the so-called Restorers’ Club of Eastern Galicia (Polish: Klub Konserwatorow Galicji Wschodniej), which had performed similar functions from 1893 to 1918, when this territory was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The fond contains materials from both organizations.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
