Lewin Brzeski Town Hall

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Ratusz w Lewinie Brzeskim
(Lewin Brzeski Town Hall)
Ratusz w lewinie Brzeskim.JPG
Lewin Brzeski Town Hall
General information
Type Town hall
Architectural style Classicism
Location Lewin Brzeski, Poland
Coordinates 50°44′54″N17°36′59″E / 50.7483°N 17.6164°E / 50.7483; 17.6164 Coordinates: 50°44′54″N17°36′59″E / 50.7483°N 17.6164°E / 50.7483; 17.6164
Completed1838

Lewin Brzeski Town Hall - a town hall built in the Classical architectural style in 1838. the building is located in the middle of the Lewin Brzeski Market Square (Rynek), the town hall is currently the seat of the Lewin Brzeski City Council and Gmina Lewin Brzeski authorities. [1]

Classicism art movement

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and completeness through which it retained until the present century its position of authority in the restricted repertoire of visual images." Classicism, as Clark noted, implies a canon of widely accepted ideal forms, whether in the Western canon that he was examining in The Nude (1956), or the literary Chinese classics or Chinese art, where the revival of classic styles is also a recurring feature.

Lewin Brzeski Place in Opole, Poland

Lewin Brzeski(listen) is a town in Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 5,843 inhabitants (2004).

Gmina Lewin Brzeski is an urban-rural gmina in Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Lewin Brzeski, which lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of Brzeg and 25 km (16 mi) north-west of the regional capital Opole.

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History

The first town hall in Lewin Brzeski was raised at the beginning of the sixteenth-century. The former town hall was built with a wattle and daub structure, the non-renovated building was damaged in 1799. The current town hall was built in 1838, and remains in its original form. [2]

Wattle and daub

Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction material in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, and the technique is becoming popular again in more developed areas as a low-impact sustainable building technique.

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References

  1. "New and Historic Photographs". Lewin Brzeski. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. Pawlak, Roman (2003). Polska--zabytkowe ratusze (Wyd. 1. ed.). Warszawa: Sport i Turystyka -MUZA SA. ISBN   8372009910.