Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites
In 1891 the Discalced Carmelites from the monastery in Czerna near Krzeszowice chose Wadowice as a site for their new foundation. The most important criterion for...
Judical garden
One of the most interesting urban features found in the Galician town of Wadowice is the garden square situated between the building of the Circuit Court on the...
Wadowice Market Square
The spatial arrangement of the Wadowice Market Square was initially shaped in the late Middle Ages. In the 16th century, the town was extended along the north-south axis.
The Gedl Family Tenement House
Brick tenements appeared in the town’s landscape as late as at the turn of the 19th century. One of the oldest, a classicistic building in the style of a city manor house, was...
Building of the Poviat Council and the Poviat Savings Office and the Teofil Wysogląd Restaurant
The Lviv–Vienna highway was for Wadowice the main transport hub from the very moment the road was routed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, urban development followed the...
Wadowice barracks
Until the 1770s, the major transport routes bypassed Wadowice; hence, the town did not have any strategic or military importance. This situation changed fundamentally with the...
Municipal power plant
The first plans regarding the construction of a power plant appeared as early as 1905. It was then that the authorities of Wadowice, headed by the Mayor Jan Iwański,...
Railway Station of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway
The inclusion of Wadowice to the railway network of Galicia, and indirectly to Austro-Hungary, opened the way for the town’s inhabitants to travel to Cracow, Lviv and even...
The Franz Joseph I Girl’s Department School
The development of education in the latter part of the 19th century, and especially the rapid growth of the number of primary school pupils, was the main reason why the authorities...
“Sokolnia” in Wadowice
The Sokół (‘Falcon’) Gymnastic Society became the symbol of the social activity of the inhabitants of Wadowice. The idea of ‘falcon’ societies was born in Habsburg...