Our history
The beginning of history as we know it dates back to the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when our ancestors ran a restaurant with accommodation in this place. They continued their activity until the beginning of World War I.
The exact date of construction of the tenement house at ul. Gołębia 8 is unknown to us. The oldest part of the building dates back to the 16th century. In the second half of the 16th century, the tenement house belonged to the burgrave of the Wawel Castle. Later it changed owners many times. In the mid-nineteenth century, the wooden outbuilding was destroyed by fire and was replaced with a brick outbuilding, which changed its function - from economic to residential. During the reconstruction, wooden porches were created.
‘In the courtyard, the old walls of the house are supported by buttresses,
picturesque and carefully cut out porches run around the courtyard for two floors’
In later years, numerous reconstructions and modernizations took place. Until the beginning of World War II, the building remained in the family's hands. After the war, it was taken over by the communist authorities. At the beginning of the 1890s, the heirs regained the completely ruined property.
