History Of The Longest Street Of Lviv

Every Lviv resident or tourist has been to this street at least once, since it is located in a suburban station, and the main railway station is practically located here, too, as well as bus station, many roads and streets with other membrane, leading to various parts of the city and out of the city. It is an important departure from the city in the direction of the border with Poland. Yes, it is a famous Gorodotska St.

In ancient times, the street consisted of three separate parts. St. Anne Street (Gorodotska) is known since 1578; it stretched from Krakivska St. to the church of St. Anne. With the regulation of urban space (in 1871) it was called Kazymyrivska in honor of King Kasymyr III the Great.

Kazymyrivska St. remained kind of a democratic line between the rich centre quarters and impoverished dwellings of the poor. On Gospitalna, Kotliarska, and Soniachna Streets, there lived the working class that increasingly reminded of their existence in more and more menacing way.

In December 1944, Kazymyrivska St. was renamed to Chapaieva St. Twenty years later, it merged with Gorodotska and became the 1St of May Street. The part that came from the fork to the modern street Chekalina was called Gorodotska. This name emerged at the end of the XVIII century. In the XV century, it was called Shyroka, and a little later – Krakivska Road, and only then it acquired its modern name. It was the first stone path in Lviv. It became even more important after the opening of the railway line Lviv – Przemysl in 1861. In 1879, the horse tram appeared in Gorodotska, and after thirty years the electric one started running. In the last quarter of the previous century, there were no buildings on the right side of Gorodotska St. In the place of blocks between Odeska and Golovatskogo St. there was so-called Gorodetske source, which was slowly turning into a pond.

At the beginning of the XXI century, the construction began on a small area that is up close to Gorodotska. In the place of former salt warehouses, the building of the church of St. Elizabeth started. It was built in honor of Franz Joseph’s I wife, killed by an anarchist. The construction was completed in 1912. The third part of the street is the one stretching from modern Chekalin St. to the city limits, and it was called Bogdanivka earlier. The name came from the name of a manor, founded by Lviv Armenian family back in the XVI century. In 1933, the street was included to Gorodotska.

In 1964, all three parts of the street were united into one Gorodotska St, the longest street of the city.