“A German Oak Built of Stone”. Neo-Gothic Guildhalls in Riga
Agnieszka Zabłocka-Kos
zablocka.kos.agn@gmail.comInstitute of Art History, University of Wrocław (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-6387
Abstract
The article concerns two neo-Gothic public buildings in Riga: the restructuring of the Great Guildhall of St. Mary (Stube zu Münster, later Grosse St. Marien Gilde, Lielā ģilde, Amatu ielā 6, Karl Beyne, 1854–1860), dating from the mid-14th century, which was the seat of the city’s merchants, and the Little Guildhall of St. John (Stube zu Soest, then Kleine St. Johannisgilde, Mazā ģilde, Amatu ielā 3/5, Johann Daniel Felsko, 1864–1866) belonging to the craftsmen’s guilds. The two buildings stood next to each other, beside the city walls. The complicated history of their construction is shown against the background of the changes in the importance of the German merchant and craftsmen elites in Riga around the mid-19th century, the progressive unification of the Russian Empire, and the Russification of the Baltic provinces that began during the reign of Tsar Alexander II.
Keywords:
Riga, Great Guildhall, Small Guildhall, 19th-century architecture, neo-Gothic, Baltic Germans, national conflict, political architecture, Baltic provincesReferences
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Agnieszka Zabłocka-Koszablocka.kos.agn@gmail.com
Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-6387
Prof. Agnieszka Zabłocka-Kos researches the history of 19th- and 20th-century European architecture and urban planning, the periods of Revivalism and post-war Modernism, exhibitions in Central Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, European heritage, national identity and the culture of memory. She is the author of several books, including Sztuka, wiara, uczucie. Alexis Langer – śląski architekt neogotyku (1996) and Zrozumieć miasto. Centrum Wrocławia na drodze ku nowoczesnemu city 1807–1858 (2006), as well as the co-editor of the studies Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta. Przestrzeń publiczna w miastach ziem polskich w „długim” dziewiętnastym wieku (with Aleksander Łupienko; 2019) and Czyj sen Wrocław śni? Od Wilhelmstadt do Centrum Południowego (with Adam Pacholak and Aleksandra Podlejska; 2023).
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