Architektura i urbanistyka Juraty w latach 1928-1939

Abstract

Architecture and town planning of Jurata in 1928-1939

Poznan and Warsaw industrialists put forward an idea of founding a European standard seaside resort situated at the Baltic Sea and in 1928, they settled a partnership ‘Jurata’. A wooded area of 150 hectare on the Hel Peninsula was taken out into lease and a plan of regulation based on historicism and eclectic concepts was drawn. In 1933, after the preliminary examination by The Seashore Development Department headed by an architect Tadeusz Zandfoss, the new plan was prepared. It incorporated innovative town planning tendencies and its form was based on the peninsula’s natural conditions. The plan resulted form the cooperation of specialists in various fields. Functionalism was its characteristic feature. It had been partially accomplished before the Second World War. Hotels, guest-houses and simple houses were built according to typical designs by Roman Sigalin, an architect from Warsaw. Also, a hotel complex situated close to the beach was to be built. In few years, Jurata became a famous seaside resort which in summer used to gather intellectual, cultural and political Polish elites of the time before WW II. Jurata holds an exceptional position on the map of seaside resorts from before WW II as a place planned and built by means of private capital. Spatial, cultural and historical values of the resort that have been preserved up till now, deserve to be protected and restored. Translated by Katarzyna Mrozowska-Linda