New town

Przez Barbakan wchodzimy na teren Nowego Miasta, founded in the early 15th century in the area excluded from Old Warsaw. Obecna zabudowa ulicy Freta pochodzi z lat 1950-1955. The facades only partially refer to the burnt village 1944 year of tenement houses from the eighteenth century. During the reconstruction, they were stripped of their old decor and replaced with decorations with new content. This was the case with the tenement house at number 1 designed by Jerzy Dutkiewicz, where the statues of the Virgin Mary and St.. John of Nepomuk was replaced with sculptures by Cerer and Mercury, and in the tenement house at the number 52 the statues of the Lamb of God and the Virgin Mary were replaced with a statue of Diana and a statue of a boar. Tenement house “Under Samson” (at the number 5), restituted in the years 1951-1955 according to the design of Piotr Bohdziewicz, it has a palace facade and new reliefs “Samson with a lion” and “Delilah cutting Samson's hair”. On the facade of the tenement house, the number 13 the sculptures of socialist realism Hutnik and Rybak were placed, and under the number 39 medallions with portraits of painters were painted: Władysław Skoczylas, Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and Tadeusz Breyer. Sgraffito at number 9 is the work of Bohdan Urbanowicz. The destroyed tenement house of Tyszkiewicz from the 18th century (with an old facade designed by Szymon Bogumił Zug) was rebuilt into the Museum of. Maria Skłodowska-Curie (tenement house at no 16).

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