Rynok Square, Lviv center

On the residential area of ??the ancient Lviv show only archaeological traces carcass wooden housing characteristic of all ancient cities.

But in the Market Square and neighboring streets, like in any other city of Ukraine, perfectly preserved medieval ensemble of the residential development. His feature - given the special planning of the unity of the principles shaping the living environment, consisting of separate units - trehokonnyh philistine stone buildings, which were the same size due to the medieval building legislation.

In the old city there is a book recording the evidence of houses and stone construction of boundary walls between adjacent areas. There was a special resolution magistrate agreed that relations between neighbors in the construction of "marginal walls", thus confirming the large scale of construction.

The ancient boundary wall - is a kind reminder urban planning, in particular planning areas in the fourteenth century. Left in the basement of reconstructed buildings in the Market Square, the walls still mark the boundaries of 52 residential buildings, mentioned in medieval documents.



In the basement and ground floors of houses were found full-size brick walls, laid on the cross (the so-called Gothic) laying system, pointed arches, niches and portals that are typical of Gothic architecture. They indicate the formation of stone housing in Lviv is not later than the beginning of the fifteenth century.

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A comparison of the fragments of Gothic facades of houses in the Market Square 16, 44, 45 and on the Russian street, 2 floors with planning the first evidence that the facade wall built before the inner longitudinal. With the construction of the Gothic facades of the houses on the street side, there is one room. Separate basement with pointed arches, preserved under the houses on the market square, 7, 8 and 41 show another type of two or three-chamber dwellings, later extended. All this is consistent with the types of planning solutions applied in the European housing construction.