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Former teachers' seminar in Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) - contemporary view (side elevation), photo Michał Pszczółkowski, all rights reserved
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Fotografia przedstawiająca Stanislavov Female Teachers\' Seminary
Former teachers' seminar in Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) - contemporary view (side elevation), photo Michał Pszczółkowski, all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Stanislavov Female Teachers\' Seminary
Former teachers' seminar in Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) - contemporary view (side elevation), photo Michał Pszczółkowski, all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Stanislavov Female Teachers\' Seminary
Former teachers' seminar in Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) - contemporary view (fragment of the façade), photo Michał Pszczółkowski, all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Stanislavov Female Teachers\' Seminary
Former teachers' seminar in Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) - present-day view (portal), photo Michał Pszczółkowski, all rights reserved
Fotografia przedstawiająca Stanislavov Female Teachers\' Seminary
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Stanislavov Female Teachers' Seminary

Teachers in the Second Republic were educated in teachers' seminaries. There was a female institution in Stanislawow. The façade of the building resembled Kraków's Collegium Maius.

Education in the Second Republic
The structure of schooling in interwar Poland became firmly established in the early 1920s. Children for whom secondary education was not planned attended a seven-year primary school. The others, after four years of education at the general level, went on to an eight-year gymnasium (the first three classes constituted the so-called lower gymnasium) ending with the baccalaureate and the right to go to university. Teacher training took place in five-year teachers' seminaries. These had the rank of secondary school and accepted graduates of seven-grade general schools or lower secondary schools. Graduation from the seminary did not entitle students to study at academic schools, but graduates could obtain higher education at a private university, the Wolna Wszechnica Polska (Free Polish University).

Stanislavov Seminary
In 1893, a Polish institution for the education of female teachers was established in Stanislawow - the Teofil Lenartowicz Female Higher Scientific and Educational Institute. In 1902, this institution was transformed into the Private Female Teachers' Seminary under the direction of Father Franciszek Skarbowski, popular in the city at the time, known as 'Father Fron'. In 1909, a building was purchased for the school in Hugo Kołłątaja Street (now Dnistrowska Street), in which the institution continued its activities after independence under the name of the Maria Konopnicka Private Female Teachers' Seminar.

The high demand for teaching staff meant that the building on Kołłątaja Street did not meet the needs of the seminary. Thanks to the efforts of "Father Fronia", a new school building was built in Kamińskiego (now I. Franki) Street. The groundbreaking ceremony for the building took place on 14 June 1925.

. The L-plan building stood at the corner of the street. Work was completed in 1927. The cost of construction, including equipment, was over 500,000 zloty. The funds were raised, among other things, thanks to the generosity of Stanislav society, especially local railwaymen.

Architecture of the teachers' seminar building
The architectural design of the building was carried out by Tadeusz Kowalski (1883-post-1933), a Stanislav architect who, as an official of the Regional State Railways Directorate, was primarily responsible for the design of railway stations in the region (including those in Tatarov, Delatyn and Ottynia), while in the provincial capital he designed the building of the Polish Railway Workers' Union.

In the design of the seminary, the architect used the traditional convention characteristic of his work, using references to the Renaissance and Baroque. The stylistics of traditionalism in modern redaction was, after all, very popular in the designs of school buildings at the time. The use of motifs appropriate to this current was even recommended in school design theory. Józef Holewiński wrote in the early 1920s: "The factor which determines the artistic value of a school building is the correct use and development of architectural and decorative motifs. In this respect, it is recommended to use, as far as possible, characteristic features of Polish architecture and native ornamentation. [...] Examples of Polish motifs include broken roofs on old country manor houses and roofs on cottages with side eaves set back and encircling the cottage, or attics on old town houses and on fortified castles, which are different from Italian attics, although undoubtedly modelled on them" (Józef Holewiński, Budynek szkolny, Warsaw 1921).

In the case of the Seminary building, such a style is evidenced mainly by the Baroque volute gables, framed by spheres and obelisks, the portal framed by a pair of Corinthian columns and crowned by a decorative medallion, moreover, the corner of the building is emphasised by a scarpe, and the top storey is surrounded by a pilaster-arched frieze, associated with the Renaissance motif of the so-called Polish attic. The building is covered with a high, curved roof. The façade as a whole, especially the side façade, flanked by two shallow risalits, one topped with a gable analogous to the façade, the other resolved by a round risalit, is reminiscent of the façade of Krakow's Collegium Maius.

The seminary building today
Until 1934 the institution was privately owned. In 1934, the building was handed over to the state, following assurances that it would be used for education and training in the teaching profession. By 1939, the Stanislav seminary had educated 315 female teachers. Today, the building houses the High School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

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Time of origin:
1927
Creator:
Tadeusz Kowalski (architekt; Stanisławów)
Publikacja:
13.10.2024
Ostatnia aktualizacja:
13.10.2024
Author:
Michał Pszczółkowski
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